Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2023

Carl Ganter an Explorers Club Fellow in recognition of his contributions to understanding and conserving the world’s fresh water. Carl Ganter a Fellow, Recognizing Contributions to Freshwater Research, Conservation and Journalism appeared first on Circle of Blue. “As explorers, we must see, share, and inspire. .

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Today YouTubers MrBeast, Mark Rober and thousands of other creators are joining together to launch TeamSeas, a crowd-funded campaign with the goal of raising $30 million dollars by January 1 to remove 30 million pounds of trash from rivers, beaches and our ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ocean animals have evolved all kinds of different ways to protect themselves from threats. Today we’re sharing some of our ocean’s most notorious venomous residents. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. There are also over 1,200 venomous fish in the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 21, 2022

anywhere near the water, especially the ocean. Yet as I began to pull together a list of book recommendations for ocean lovers, I realized something. While I love any book about the sea, there’s a category of “ocean books” that I’ve found myself more fascinated with each day. Love ocean content? Enter Your Email.loading.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 5, 2022

From “Under the Sea” to “Part of Your World,” this fin -credible 1989 animated production boasts a cast with some characters based on real ocean species … but, I have to say, some of them might be surprising. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Is Sebastian really a crab?

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s somewhat indescribable—our love of the ocean. Since time immemorial, humans have been enamored by our ocean in one way or another. Seeing what resonates with you—our ocean-loving voters—connects us in ways that words simply cannot. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Love our content?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Climate change is here, and nowhere is this more immediately apparent than in our ocean. It makes sense that our ocean would bear the most immediate impacts because it is on the front line of actually absorbing and storing the carbon that causes climate change to begin with.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. degrees Celsius. While not new, this remains a critically important commitment.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. And as I learned at the International Zero Waste Cities Conference held January 2023 in Quezon City (part of Metro Manila in the Philippines) in, this impacts our planet and our ocean in many ways.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The ocean is also experiencing record-breaking temperatures and more frequent marine heatwaves. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Hold onto your butts and take a ride through the depths of the prehistoric ocean. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet conservation funding centers on lands and oceans. There are more kinds of freshwater fish—18,075 and counting—than there are fish species living in the oceans and seas. Freshwater species are dying off and decreasing in abundance. Boats ply the waters of the Mekong River Delta, near Can Tho, Vietnam.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 8, 2021

If you want to work in the field of marine conservation, it can be difficult to know where to start. Here are three things to keep in mind as you dive into marine conservation. When I was in high school, I thought the only way to work on the ocean was to become a marine biologist. Never miss an update! Enter Your Email.loading.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 24, 2022

These delightful beings can be found from the warm, shallow waters of the Indian Ocean (including the Red Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The post Meet the Idiomysis Shrimp, the Social Butterfly of the Ocean appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. That means they are less than one centimeter in length !

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 25, 2023

When you think of BIG ocean animals , you probably think of blue whales or whale sharks. But, there is a whole class of ocean animals that we should also be thinking of when it comes to size—marine invertebrates. And, when you focus on just the ocean—invertebrates constitute 92% of life in our ocean. Love ocean content?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 Ocean Conservancy’s Justice40 interim report dives into research conducted in Florida at the nexus of failing water infrastructure, climate risk, and federal infrastructure investments in disadvantaged communities.

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NRDC

DECEMBER 14, 2023

During COP28, the White House released a strategy to guide federal agencies towards incorporating justice and equity in ocean use and conservation.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That’s how long Ocean Conservancy has been advancing policies that secure a healthy ocean and a thriving planet. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Ocean Conservancy’s agenda for COP29 is bold, ambitious and essential.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Informal sector waste collectors in Colombia and across the globe help fulfill our mission to protect the ocean from one of today’s greatest global challenges, plastic pollution.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 1, 2023

Have you ever heard of an oceanic whitetip shark? While this species may not be the most famous of all sharks, these sharks can be found in almost every ocean, making them among the most widespread of all shark species. See more wonderful ocean animals! They need to be on the move — literally. They love wide open spaces.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down. putting undue stress on people, our economy and our ocean. A government shutdown will put a hard stop on NOAA’s ocean research.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Consider the record-breaking warm ocean temperatures of the past year, which has caused the largest coral bleaching event on record , habitat loss and species migration. Many scientists thought these high ocean temperatures would be years away, but the realities of climate change are not a distant threat.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 7, 2024

Their beauty is as equally notable as their importance to our ocean: Parrotfish are essential to the survival of coral habitats as they feed on algae that could otherwise suffocate the reefs. Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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NRDC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

State decision makers should move to ambitiously conserve our state's vulnerable seascape. A prime opportunity to bolster California's MPA network is close at hand.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger. as a national policy leader.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. At the same time, the Tribunal’s interpretation was also conservative in the sense that it was a straightforward reading of the UNCLOS text.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tackle one of the biggest threats facing our ocean: plastic pollution. Widely known as the “global plastics treaty,” this agreement aims to curb the global plastic pollution crisis, of which the ocean often bears the brunt. As an official U.N. There is still time to right this ship.

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NRDC

MARCH 12, 2024

marine protected areas fall short in safeguarding ocean biodiversity; more, larger, better-connected protected areas are needed to conserve marine life.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Conservation easements can facilitate a transition of cropland to salt marsh, providing numerous ecosystem services and up to 90% of the market value for farms. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While more than 200,000 people flock to New York Fashion Week shows to get ahead of the curve on the next fashion trends, at Ocean Conservancy we have been doing some fashion analysis of our own. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the water cycle and how it impacts the weather and our ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As ocean waters warm , more water evaporates into the air, which then results in more intense and frequent rain or snow.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Did you know that more than 80% of our ocean is still unexplored? Scientists have made massive progress in marine exploration in the past century, yet there is still so much more we have to learn about our ocean. Want to learn more about ocean animals? We must never forget that there is always more to learn about our ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 8, 2024

This blog was written by Hannah De Frond, Ocean Conservancy Consultant and International Trash Trap Network Coordinator. A recent example of this followed the publication of Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto’s research paper about microplastics in commonly consumed protein products. What did we find?

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 29, 2024

See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. They are easy to spot because of their spotted bodies—and they are favorites for ocean photographers and scuba divers to witness. That would be a wonderful sight to see!

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2024

As you walk along the beach, taking in the calm waters, it’s hard to really understand how vast and complex the ocean is. While the ocean has been around for a whopping 3.8 Far below the ocean’s surface lies something even more mysterious: the deep ocean. Love ocean content?

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 14, 2024

See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. However, in recent years, blooms of pyrosomes have been found as far north as Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska, and even in the Southern Ocean.

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