Ocean Planning Takes a Village
Our ocean is mind-bogglingly vast. It covers nearly 140 MILLION square miles of our Earth’s surface. That’s roughly 35 times the size of the United States! Our coastlines, on the other hand, are much smaller—and getting...
Ocean Planning Takes a Village
There’s an underwater disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico right now that’s affecting Gulf Coast wildlife, fishermen and economies. We’ve broken it down here with six things you need to know. 1. Lots of rain in the M...
What is Going on in the Gulf?
The ocean shapes the United States in a myriad of profound ways. To the east, the sun’s rays rise over the Atlantic and light our coastline from the cold waters of Maine down to the warm sands of Puerto Rico. To the west...
5 Key Laws That Protect Our Ocean
The Red List of Threatened Species, produced and managed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is known globally as the world’s most comprehensive catalog of the current conservation status of liv...
Record-high Number of Species Under Threat of Extinction
We’ve seen many attacks on the environment over the last several years. The Trump administration may have hoped you wouldn’t notice its latest salvo, which is deeply wonky but also deeply important. Instead of outright c...
White House Creates New Pathway for Agencies to Ignore the Climate Change Crisis
On a recent trip to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, I was faced with a display of a giant squid that was, well, GIANT. As a school field trip chaperone, I was quickly peppered with all sorts of questions about...
All You Need to Know About the GIANT Squid
It’s beyond a shadow of a doubt that our ocean’s sea turtles are facing more threats in today’s world than ever before. From plastics in the ocean to ghost fishing gear to light pollution, countless threats are ultimatel...
This is the Sea Turtle Pledge You Don’t Want to Miss Out on in 2019
We all love the ocean and the incredibly diverse array of wildlife that grace its waters, but not many people may realize just how threatened many of our ocean’s animals truly are. From whales and sea turtles to sharks a...
These Endangered Marine Animals Need Your Help
The ocean is a wild, wonderful and mysterious place, and 80% of our ocean remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. Unfortunately, just because an area is unexplored does not mean humans haven’t had an impact. A new r...
New Report Highlights Troubled Waters for Diversity of Life in Our Ocean
We received some welcome news this week about a rare subspecies of whale that lives exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA has listed the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale (pronounced BROO-dus) as endangered under the Endang...