Learning, Sharing, Acting for the Ocean in Oslo
Last week I had the pleasure of leading Ocean Conservancy’s delegation to the 2019 Our Ocean Conference in Norway. We had a lot planned for the two-day event, and it felt like a whirlwind. I couldn’t be more proud of the...
Learning, Sharing, Acting for the Ocean in Oslo
Over the past few years, Floridians have become unpleasantly familiar with repeated noxious harmful blue-green algal blooms that have plagued rivers and estuaries, killing fish and shellfish, fouling boats and underminin...
Hold the Guacamole: Florida Making Important Steps in Combating Harmful Algal Blooms
People all over the world, from the Arctic to the Caribbean and from the Midwest to coastal cities, eat seafood. In fact, three billion people rely on seafood as their primary source of protein—that’s 40% of the world’s...
5 Seafood Traditions Around the World
Early fall means hurricane season for those living near the Caribbean, South Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico. We know that hurricanes can be devastating on land—history is full of infamous storms that forever changed the area...
How do Hurricanes Affect Marine Life?
For many people, September means the kids are back in school, football season is underway, and the end of summer has come. For Arctic scientists, it is also the time of year that sea ice in the northern hemisphere reache...
We’ve Reached this Year’s Arctic Sea Ice Minimum
As the Arctic goes, so goes the world. That line echoes in my mind as I grapple with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” (SROCC) released this...
What Does the SROCC Mean for the Arctic?
Austin Ahmasuk is a lifelong Nome resident, hunter, trapper and fisher. When the passenger vessel The World came to Nome on September 10, 2019, I could no longer sit by passively and let our climate crisis continue on wi...
We are in a Climate Crisis
It’s good to have a reason to celebrate. The Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act (H.R. 205) bill introduced by Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) and Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) secured bipartisan support in the H...
A Reason to Celebrate
Five years ago, temperatures in the Northeast Pacific Ocean skyrocketed. The abnormally hot mass of water was dubbed the “warm blob” and fishermen and coastal communities were on the front line as the ecosystems of the W...
What is the Pacific Warm Blob?
We are more likely to get sick when we are stressed. The same logic applies to other animals. Stress leads to weakened system defenses, and this is true for Florida’s coral reefs. Florida’s coral reefs are currentl...