Ocean Conservation

From Mavis McRae and Mission Blue: Created in 1958, the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park was the first of its kind in the world and is famous for it's ...

Are you a fan of "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels? Now you have the opportunity to digitally choose your own adventure, under the sea. The videos...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Volunteers around the world collected nearly 9 million pounds of cigarettes, bottles and other trash during a coastal cleanup c...

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: The Minister of Science and Technology (SENACYT), for the country of Pa...

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Today, the wind picked up making the waters quite choppy. The Sea Hunte...

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Ricardo Cisneros and I joined Hector Guzman's science team over at the ...

The Green Belt is one of the most productive stretches of ocean in the world, creating foraging habitat for millions of sea birds, hundreds of thousands of fur seals, and large numbers of whales, fish, marine mammals and other species.

Mission Blue: By Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Oceans Program Manager, Google: Kip Evans and Shari Sant Plummer left early in the morning to rendezvou...

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: Green turtles appear to find a benefit in heading to Marine Protected Areas over nonprotected areas of the ocean at meal...

By restoring and strengthening natural marine systems, we can help feed people far into the future. It's a win/win situation. We simply need to put in place smart, low-cost, science-based policies on national levels that protect wild fish.

With threats like overfishing, plastic pollution and changing temperatures looming over the world's oceans, conservation groups are working hard to pr...

College students are taking up the challenge of saving the Earth for themselves, because the "grownups" in our nation's capital, and the state capitals as well, just don't get it.

National Geographic is committed to the big picture. Conservation concerns will be part of the project. That's their promise so let's take them at their word.

Leatherback sea turtles migrate an astonishing 6,000 miles across the Pacific to feed on jellyfish in the waters off the U.S. West Coast. After such a long journey, wouldn't you want somewhere safe to rest?

A bit of a splash erupted on the Web yesterday in the form of photos showing a boat displaying two hammerheads. One was a shark. The other was the celebrity, Rosie O'Donnell.

It's corporate bullying by the plastic industry to make cities and counties think twice before passing environmental laws that cut into their profits, laws that are supported by the majority of residents who prefer to live in clean communities.

From One World One Ocean: Less than two months ago, HuffPost Green covered the launch of One World One Ocean (OWOO) -- a new nonprofit campaign tha...

The 166 million pieces of trash recorded during Cleanups have given us an invaluable snapshot of ocean trash.

Last year, I thought the BP oil disaster might serve as a wake-up call about the importance and vulnerability of our ocean, but instead, it seems many lessons learned have since been forgotten.

What do a high school student from LA, a scientist who studies the DNA of whales, the president of a Central American Nation, a former Coast Guard Commandant and a Washington Post reporter have in common?

The Arctic is at the most dramatic of crossroads. 386,000 square miles of Arctic sea ice have melted away over the past 30 years. Scientist predict in 2030 the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer.

Instead of changing their environment to fit themselves, dolphins have adapted to a changing ocean. That's what wise elders teach their young: Cultures change. Oceans change. We must change, as well.