BLOG ArcticUncategorized June 23, 2020

6 Ways to Explore and Support the Arctic From Home

The Arctic is a spectacular place—both beautiful and abundant. Home to Indigenous people, unique wildlife and wide-open expanses of wilderness, the Arctic is awe-inspiring whether you’ve visited or not. But, Arctic peopl...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized June 23, 2020

6 Ways to Explore and Support the Arctic From Home

The Arctic is changing fast: it’s warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the planet, and seasonal sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas is decreasing in extent, thickness and duration. These changes mean A...

BLOG Uncategorized June 22, 2020

Reducing Risk in U.S. Arctic Waters

There is a lot going on. And while there is much uncertainty as to when we will find “normalcy” again, we hope, in the meantime, to help bring a splash of ocean joy to your lives this summer. Today, we are excited to con...

BLOG Uncategorized June 19, 2020

Are You an Amazing Photographer?

Parasites get a bad rap. Yes, the definition of a parasite is something that takes resources from another organism, while hurting the host in the process. And anyone who has personal experience with parasites (myself inc...

BLOG FisheriesUncategorized June 17, 2020

Marine Parasites Are Creative Masterminds

By all accounts, recreational fishing by private anglers is booming around the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, as fishermen head out on their boats to see if they can fill their coolers with some prized red snapper. With so...

BLOG PlasticsUncategorized June 16, 2020

New State Management for Red Snapper Is Driving Overfishing

Hannah De Frond is a researcher in the Rochman lab at the University of Toronto, studying plastic pollution. Originally from the UK, Hannah graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.S. degree in Environmental Scien...

BLOG ArcticUncategorized June 15, 2020

How to Reduce Microfiber Emissions

With several crises confronting the nation at this time—from a global health pandemic to widespread protests against anti-Black racism—it is unfathomable that the Trump administration has set its sights on weakening safe...

BLOG PolicyUncategorized June 12, 2020

Proposal Threatens to Weaken 2016 Arctic Drilling Rule

In the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others, many of us are taking time to re-evaluate our biases, our contributions to systemic racism and the ways in which we can...

BLOG FloridaUncategorized June 11, 2020

Trump Again Undermines Conservation and Public Voices

Ocean Conservancy received some big news last month: Our three-part documentary series, Ocean to the Everglades, was named a Gold Winner in the Online Documentary Series category for the 41st annual Telly Awards. The ser...

BLOG PlasticsUncategorized June 9, 2020

Directing the Ocean to the Everglades Series

Ocean Conservancy, The Circulate Initiative and Global Resilient Cities Network with the support of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program, will work with five cities in Asia and Latin America to strengthen waste management, build...