Manatees and Baseball: A Match Made in Heaven
When I was a kid growing up in Merritt Island, Florida, I absolutely loved baseball—but what’s a Florida kid to do when there’s no local team to support? Most folks might forget that there was no major league baseball te...
Manatees and Baseball: A Match Made in Heaven
This blog is written by Victoria SanJuan, Victoria is a passionate ocean lover and professional scuba diver who is currently studying biology at Florida Atlantic University. As the Communications Intern for Big Blue...
Tackling Single-Use Plastic in Miami Beach
The last sight you want to see when you visit Florida beaches is dead marine life. But, that is what is starting to happen more and more as this year’s red tide event is beginning. So far this summer, Pinellas County has...
Red Tides are Devastating Florida’s Waters
Tampa Bay was in the national spotlight in April when the state government intentionally released 210 million gallons of nutrient-rich water from the Piney Point gypsum stack into the bay. This decision was based on the...
The Troubling Impacts of Florida’s Piney Point Pollution
Haz clic aquí para español. Miami is the Magic City. There is so much that makes it magical, especially the wild ocean and water that is the city’s backyard. The town abuts Biscayne Bay, a natural wonder of marine life—a...
Keeping Trash Out of the Magic City
In April 2021, Florida was staring down an immediate environmental calamity. The Piney Point phosphogypsum stack just south of Tampa had failed and had begun to spill millions of gallons of toxic, nutrient-rich, possibly...
3 Lessons Learned from Florida’s Piney Point Disaster
Earlier this month, Ocean Conservancy had the privilege of co-hosting a very special virtual event with our partner Dream In Green, a South Florida-based non-profit organization with a mission to empower individuals (esp...
Paths to Careers in Marine Conservation
UPDATE 04/08/2021: The immediate human threat may have passed, but the environmental threat is just rearing its head. We may no longer be looking at a catastrophic event at Piney Point, where just days ago we were facing...
Florida Water Emergency: The Piney Point Phosphogypsum Crisis Unfolding Before Our Eyes
Ocean Conservancy produced the Ocean to the Everglades film series with the hope that it could educate about the most urgent issues facing South Florida’s ocean and coasts, in addition to sharing the wonder of this uniqu...
Bringing the Florida Everglades to Your Classroom
For the past several weeks, a red tide has lurked off Florida’s southwest coast, sickening birds and triggering fish kills. The late-season red tide is not unusual, but it is outside of the time of year red tides typical...