The new framework for America's Marine Spatial Planning policy sets a solid time line for progress by identifying which coastal areas should be used for industrial purposes, and which need restoring and preservation.
David Helvarg | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green
An executive order establishing a national ocean policy for the practical use and long-term protection of our public seas could be one of Barack Obama's outstanding achievements.
Posted 11.25.2009 | Green
A see-through sea cucumber, a "big eared" octopus-like animal, a "gold treasure" crustacean, and more are among the many new deep-dwellers collected d...
Keith Addis | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
Ocean issues have always been hard to get people to care about even though they function as the primary battery for the planet's climate, generate millions of jobs, and produce food for billions of people.
Trip Van Noppen | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
In the Arctic waters surrounding Alaska, George W. Bush is still president, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has the chance to inaugurate a new regime.
BBC | Jody Bourton | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
[A] seahorse that lives on the western coast of the Atlantic has been found in the Azores almost 5000km away from its possible home....
Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer KOKONOGI, Japan - A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venom...
nytimes.com | LINDSEY HOSHAW | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Light bulbs, bottle caps, toothbrushes, Popsicle sticks and tiny pieces of plastic, each the size of a grain of rice, inhabit the Pacific garbage patc...
Kathy Eldon | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
I recently caught up with Philippe Cousteau Jr., following in the footsteps of his grandfather, famed French explorer Jacques Cousteau, encouraging young people to use their power to change the world around them.
John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Julie Packard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Ocean life is today threatened as never before. Human activities are taking their toll, and nothing exacts a greater price than the industrial scope and scale of fishing to feed our growing appetite for seafood.
BBC | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Just how they stick so steadfastly whilst underwater has remained a biochemical puzzle for scientists for many years. Now researchers have solved thi...
Sigourney Weaver | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Scientists have known for decades that when carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water it creates an acid, but only recently did they begin to realize what this growing quantity of acid would mean for ocean life.
Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Stephen Colbert sat down with National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence and author Sylvia Earle to discuss her book, The World Is Blue, which is about...
Kevin George | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
These are just of few of the characters on the global stage whom I met - and who shared their stories of their paths on the road to Copenhagen.
Sigourney Weaver | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
We don't have to watch economic opportunities evaporate in the face of ocean acidification. We can take steps to turn back the tide.
Paul McRandle | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.
Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.
David Helvarg | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
More than 40 years after Woodstock it's the ocean that's on a bad acid trip. It's been scraped raw, emptied out, overheated, poisoned and abused, not a good time to be ingesting dangerous chemicals.
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Last year, over 70,000 volunteers picked up over 1.6 million pounds of trash from California beaches. This year, the annual California Coastal Cleanup...
Julie Packard | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
People who are making a difference for conservation invariably say they found their passion for nature by spending time outdoors or in museums: sharing the energizing experience of discovering something new and hidden.
Sarah Chasis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
Like the passage of a Clean Air Act or a Clean Water Act, President Obama is in the process of creating a landmark national healthy oceans policy and plan of action for our seas.
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The world's in hot water. Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, the Nation...
Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.
AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
PORTLAND, Maine — The basic makeup of the ocean waters off the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region has fundamentally changed in the past 40 ye...
Sarah Chasis | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green