• Ocean

Interview of the Week, Teresa Ish, Walton Family Foundation

• ecosystems
• fishing
• ocean
• seafood
• sustainability

Teresa Ish is a Senior Program Officer at the Walton Family Foundation, where she oversees the foundation’s work conserving oceans and fisheries in the U.S. and through changing market practices to improve sustainability.  Here are some of the highlights of the interview: On Persuading Businesses to Be More Sustainable: “If you run a seafood business […]

• Animals

Jellyfish Fight Their Bad Rap

• deep ocean
• jellyfish
• ocean

Jellyfish are often feared for their ability to deliver painful stings but it turns out that the gelatinous beauties could be serving an important purpose for the world’s oceans. As Eos explained, A new study in the AGU journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles estimates how much carbon gelatinous sea creatures store in their bodies and where […]

• Ocean

Biden-Harris Will Deliver a Powerful Blue Economy

• Blue Economy
• climate change
• ocean
• sea level rise
• severe storms
• sustainable

By David Helvarg & Jason Scorse Like millions of Americans, Delaware’s Vice President Joe Biden and his family love the coast. They spend their summers visiting their family beach house in a typical Delaware shore town with a boardwalk, small shops, bars, and restaurants. Its expansive beaches attract countless families, the adjacent state park is […]

• Ocean

One Octopus Thing: This Sweet Documentary Will Steal Your Heart

• #30x30
• biodiversity
• National Geographic Society
• nature
• ocean

We may not be able to enjoy movies in the theater right now, but there is no shortage of great nature documentaries to enjoy from the comfort of your home.  One you may not have heard about is called “My Octopus Teacher” — it is the story of filmmaker Craig Foster who was suffering from […]

• Ocean

Climate Change and the Ocean Century

• #30x30
• climate change
• exploration
• ocean
• ocean governance
• science
• sea level rise

By Monica Medina, Co-Founder and Co-Publisher, Our Daily Planet This op/ed was published in World War Zero Magazine and appears here with its permission. The ocean is our lifeblood on Earth. It covers 71% of the planet, provides us oxygen, regulates our climate and increasingly severe weather events by determining the strength of storms, droughts […]

• Ocean

Study Shows Warming Ocean, Vicious Carbon Cycle

• carbon sink
• food web
• Hurricanes
• ocean
• science
• warming

A new study found that the ocean is showing signs of intensifying stratification, a phenomenon in which the layers of water in the ocean become more distinct and mix less.

Why This Matters: The mixing of ocean layers is crucial to sea life and human life.