Finishing What the World Started at the UN Ocean Conference
NICE – As the sun sets on the third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, there is much to celebrate, but also much unfinished business for the world to address…
Ocean Pollution
Who Will Defend Our Oceans—the Last Global Commons?
Our planet’s oceans remain one of the last global commons—a shared resource that supports countless species, regulates our climate, and feeds billions of people. However, for over 50 years, we…
The Ocean Is Not Just a Carbon Sink
VICTORIA – Next week, governments and civil-society organizations from around the world will gather in Nice, France, for the United Nations Ocean Conference. The third such meeting since 2017, the…
The True Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution
PARIS – The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever more widespread, as scientific expeditions conducted…
Accelerating Our Ocean’s Protection
WASHINGTON, DC – Since 1971, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat caused by human-generated climate change, pushing it to the brink of collapse. The fact…
Trouble Lurks Beneath the Surface of Ocean Conservation
by César Gaviria and Patti Harris BOGOTÁ – The ocean is our greatest natural resource. It provides half the planet’s oxygen, helps to feed half the world’s people, and, as…
Seaspiracy’s Nightmarish Odyssey
Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March…
Oceans without oxygen
With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. These strange ecosystems are expanding, thanks to…
Humans Are Poisoning The Ocean—And It’s Poisoning Us Back
It's no secret that we have trashed, poisoned, and warmed oceans at an unprecedented ratevia human-caused climate change and pollution. It seems that oceans may be paying us back in…
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