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Finding Your Direction
Our mission is to inspire students from underrepresented backgrounds and communities to find their unique way to connect with the ocean and provide them with the resources they need to turn those connections into reality. To support this mission, we have prepared over...
Panama Achieves 50% Ocean Protection with Expanded Marine Protected Area
Panama recently expanded the limits of the Banco Volcán Area of Managed Resources (Banco Volcán AMR) to further protect and steward important marine ecosystems, endangered flora and fauna, and important fishing resources found within Panama's territorial waters in the...
Racial Discrimination in Cancer Alley
The 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that contains over 200 oil refineries, plastics plants, chemical plants, and other petrochemical factories that emit significant amounts of harmful air pollution is officially...
The 50 States of Climate Change
How does climate change impact your state? This informational guide from Outside magazine lists the impacts of climate change in all 50 states and how you can get involved.
Blue Growth and Blue Justice
I recently found an interesting article called Blue Growth and Blue Justice that examines the social justice implications of the rapid and unchecked development of ocean resources. The article highlights ten injustices that can be produced by blue growth: (1)...
UN Agrees on Role for Int’l Court of Justice in Climate Change
Thank you, Vanuatu! The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution proposed by the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu to seek an opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on what legal obligations nations are under to protect climate...
Help Update the Key Climate Literacy Guide
As part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is requesting suggestions on structure, topics, and content to help update a key national climate literacy guide used by educators, policymakers, and...
Every Drop Matters
World Water day is celebrated on March 22 every year to spread awareness about the water crisis all over the world. World Water Day aims to achieve the vision of sustainable water and sanitation for all by 2030. The UN's World Water Development Report is an overview...
Featured Connection: Creative Writing
The Power of Words Creative writing has been around since the time we could first put a chisel to a stone tablet and carve out glyphs, wedges, and runes and people have been writing about the ocean for probably just as long. And why not? The ocean makes for both a...
Featured Connection: Marine Archaeology
Shipwrecks, Underwater Cities and Adventure! Marine archaeology just sounds exciting. Spending your life sailing the high seas in search of legendary shipwrecks. Diving among treasure-laden ships in search of sunken riches. If only it were true! Marine archaeologists...
Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities
The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe. This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization―if...
On the Brink of a Man-Made Climate Disaster
The world is on the brink of a man-made climate change disaster. More than a century of burning fossil fuels as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use have led to global warming of 1.1°C above pre -industrial levels. This has resulted in more frequent...