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Global Fund for Coral Reefs
The Global Fund for Coral Reefs acts as an investment vehicle to fund innovative business models that increase the resilience of coral reefs and the communities that depend on them. The Global Fund for Coral Reefs provides grant funding and private capital to support...
Did You Know?
Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our ocean, and every year, 11 million metric tons of plastic enter our marine environments—enough to circle the Earth four times! Plastic kills marine life, destroys sensitive ocean...
Ocean Warming
A really insightful article on ocean warming was just published in Scientific American. It is by Katharine Hayhoe, the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University, and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's...
Marine Heat Wave Threatens Coral Reefs
A marine heatwave is a period of unusually high ocean temperatures and is defined by its duration and intensity. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) defines a marine heat wave as a period with persistent and unusually warm ocean temperatures,...
The Week in Climate Change News
Since climate policy stories don't often make the front pages (except for the extreme heat we have all been suffering with this summer), we are highlighting important stories from the past week. US Republicans oppose climate funding whilst almost 90 million Americans...
Featured Connection: Maritime Transportation
Movement of Goods and People For many people, the idea of a life at sea has always held a certain romanticism. Setting out on the open ocean for unknown adventures, visiting exotic ports of call. There is also the excitement that comes from working in a potentially...
Featured Connection: Ecology
Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms – including humans – and the world around them. Ecologists seek to understand the complex connections between these living organisms and their habitats. Ecologists study plants and animals at various...
EPA Scraps a Civil Rights Investigation on Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The recent decision by the U.S. DOJ to cancel an investigation into environmental racism is a blow to communities in Cancer Alley and environmental justice advocates. Residents in Cancer Alley have been exposed to various toxic chemicals for years that have had deadly...
Ocean Connect Reaches 10,000 New Monthly Users
We are pleased to announce that for the first time we hit 10,000 new users this month. We keep adding information and the new users keep coming. We will continue on with our mission to end the disparity in access to ocean-related opportunities for students from...
Climate Change and Heat Waves
A study published by the World Weather Attribution, an international group of scientists who measure how much climate change influences extreme weather events, reported that human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme...
Environmental Justice Suggested Reads
Extreme weather events. Rising sea levels. Water scarcity. Melting polar ice. Warming oceans. Extended heat waves. Declining biodiversity. Flooding. Catastrophic storms. Drought. Wildfires. All these environmentally damaging activities disproportionately impact...
Featured Connection: Environmental Justice
Communities populated primarily by ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged people have long been burdened with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards such as garbage dumps, toxic waste facilitates, scrap yards, factories, and other sources of...