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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Coastal Zone Grants are aimed at supporting programs that measure the impact of various pollution sources, improve public access, preserve habitats, and educate the public about the benefits of the state’s coastal zones," said DEP Acting Secretary, Jessica Shirley.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 31, 2024

My Ocean Conservancy colleague, Allison Schutes, and I met with Lara Resnik, co-founder of El Pedral Reserva , a wildlife refuge on the Peninsula Valdes, which juts out into the vast Southern Atlantic Ocean. 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 3, 2025

I recently represented Ocean Conservancy at the National Working Waterfronts Network Conference in San Diego. As an engineer, former mariner and ocean conservationist I know that decarbonizing our ports requires cross-sector partnerships. Another highlight of the conference was seeing the eWolf.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

By Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State News Educators who teach young people about water resources can gather valuable information for curriculum planning by participating in Penn State Extension’s “Dive Deeper Summit,” a youth water education conference slated for 8 a.m. Mason’s presentation will explore this paradox.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 8, 2022

June is a big month for the ocean. First, it’s officially National Ocean Month, which is an opportunity to reflect on what the ocean means to us and how we can help protect it. But June has a deeper connection to our ocean than simply “official” designations. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

The 2023 Great Lakes Literacy Education Exploration (GLLee) is a free, fun, three-hour online interactive and self-paced crash course for educators in a Great Lakes topic. Marine debris is any human-made material that can end up – on purpose or by accident – in our rivers, ocean, and Great Lakes. Driving Question?

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2023

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. 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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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

It will add new departments in oceans and environmental behavior, environment & ecosystems, climate science, and global environmental policy. At present, we do not have central, strategically focused coordinating structures and mechanisms for developing education, research, technology and policy hubs linked to climate.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 9, 2022

As our ocean connects us, so does the need for solutions to protect it. Ocean Conservancy research has shown that one of the main ways to reduce the flow of plastic to the ocean is by improving urban recycling and waste collection systems. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For more than 35 years, Ocean Conservancy® has mobilized millions of volunteers through the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC), removing more than 344 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways around the globe. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Ocean Conservancy. Never miss an update.

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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. We wanted to understand what U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and private and public grants, Pennsylvania Sea Grant conducts integrated research, outreach, education, and communications programs in the Lake Erie watershed, and in the Delaware and Susquehanna River Basins.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

And its not just that as much 40 percent of the oceans surface is now covered in plastic with billions of tons being added every day. By Carol Hillestad for Brodhead Watershed Association The world has a plastic problem. Plastic is also in our bodies. Our lungs, our blood streams, our hearts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Climate impacts as human rights violations It’s widely accepted that climate change is the cause of human rights violations for millions of people, including their rights to adequate housing, healthy working conditions, safe drinking water, education, and a healthy environment.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 11, 2023

Our ocean is a magical place, and it’s easy to become mesmerized by all it has to offer. our ocean and its incredible wildlife. Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. 2) How well do you know our ocean’s biggest creatures?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

The Storm Par team mostly went to Ivy League schools; Tyler, the tornado wrangler and cowboy scientist, trained as a meteorologist; Dexter is a scientist; Lilly brings her technical expertise as the drone operator; and Kate has some educational training, but also relies on what she learned growing up in Oklahoma.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2022

The PA Environmental Literacy Capacity Building Project Team is inviting Pennsylvania educators to complete the 2022 Status and Needs of Environmental Education In PA Survey by March 31. This initiative is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Click Here to take the survey.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Justice team is proud to announce the first Ocean Justice Community Grants cohort. Climate change and ocean injustice present dual crises that disproportionately impact marginalized coastal and ocean communities. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Stay Current.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Of Agriculture Reports 106 Cases Of Rabies In Animals So Far In 2023 -- Post-Gazette: Allegheny Health Dept.’s 15 In Washington County [PaEN] -- WeConservePA Hosts Aug. 20 [PaEN] -- Penn State Technical Assistance Program Hosts Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

Important actions on this front should focus on reducing the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, eliminating municipal and industrial discharges to oceans and freshwater systems, and reducing overall garbage that reaches rivers. Water education.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

With well over a billion dollars in funding, the Doerr School incorporates and plans to expand departments of earth system science, oceans, geophysics, environmental engineering, and energy science and engineering, and parts of the social sciences. Other schools have also created sustainability schools. Columbia has a Climate School.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

With more than 80% of the ocean yet to be explored , it’s no surprise that scientists are discovering new things all the time. But every new discovery is awe-inspiring—and reminds us why our ocean needs to be protected. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Schmidt Ocean Institute.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s been more than two years since Ocean Conservancy’s Florida Conservation Program launched Shores Forward , our flagship initiative to create positive change for our ocean across Florida. We now bring these successes to Tallahassee where we advocate and help craft legislation that protects our ocean.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Sri Lankan marine biologist and ocean educator is best known for her pioneering work on blue whales and for founding the non-profit Oceanswell , Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organization. My aim is to create a community of ocean-conscious individuals.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog post was co-written by Black Surf Santa Cruz founder Esabella Bonner and board secretary Rachel Kippen whose organization has partnered with Ocean Conservancy over the past two years. Bonner founded Black Surf Santa Cruz in 2020 to make ocean spaces more inclusive and welcoming to BILPOC community members.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2022

Moreover, the growing navigability of the Arctic Ocean will be to Russia’s benefit. When the Soviet Union fell, there was a common belief that Russia’s vast resources and educated workforce would create an era of prosperity, if only they were freed from the chains of the communist regime.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Education and Planning. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected. Creating an environmental or sustainability school also provides organization that makes it easier for students with an interest in the field to understand options.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

"I know the recipients of these grants will do amazing work to improve public access, preserve habitats, measure pollution impacts, and educate the public about the benefits of these coastal zones." Coastal zones are areas where land meets the coast and include both coastal waters and adjacent shorelands.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 18, 2024

She aspires to pursue a career in business, speaks four languages and is passionate about ways to prevent plastic from entering our ocean. Ultimately, students in the program aim to reduce the amount of plastic litter in their communities and prevent it from making its way to the ocean.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Albano, now the Internship Program Coordinator at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, NOAA Ocean Exploration, caught up with Frontiers to tell us a little about her career and her research, as part of our Frontiers Scientist series. Currently, I support NOAA Ocean Exploration’s outreach and education division.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s not hard to fall in love with the ocean in California. You can drive for 600+ miles with endless ocean vistas on the Pacific Coast Highway or wake up early in the morning to explore tidepools teaming with life. It’s not surprising that most Californians are concerned about plastics polluting the beaches and ocean they love.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 29, 2022

When I first came to Ocean Conservancy, someone asked me what my favorite animal was. The giant oceanic manta ray ( Mobula birostris ). Because they are so large and so magnificent in the water that they seem to defy explanation and—much like the ocean itself–they appear to be imbued with a spirit of power and magic that inspires awe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

Our collective choices now will determine fates later this century With higher emissions and greater warming, higher amounts of sea level rise late this century become more likely, mostly because there is greater potential for ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica to shrink, adding more water to the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 30, 2022

Hannah De Frond works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to coordinate the International Trash Trap Network with the goal to expand the use of trash-trapping technologies to increase cleanup efforts and to document their collective impact. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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