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Oil and Gas Regulators Look to Industry to Police Itself, Four Years After Deepwater Horizon
When more than 200 million gallons of oil was set free into the Gulf, it exposed more than a few issues. In response, a presidential commission prescribed a number of …
Feds Propose Doubling Size of Protected Areas Off North Coast
Permanent protection from oil drilling off the Sonoma and southern Mendocino County coast appears imminent, anti-drilling advocates and local officials said Monday, as a federal agency unveiled a plan to …
Environmental SWAT Team Tests Runoff To Nab Polluters
L.A. Waterkeeper inspectors collect samples during rainstorms and have them analyzed in an effort to force polluters to clean up. L.A. Waterkeeper is one of the recipients of our Coastal …
Global Bycatch Patterns of Marine Megafauna
Check out Wallace J. Nichols’ paper on global bycatch patterns that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Click here.
Pew Awards Scientist Hoyt Peckham the 2014 Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Hoyt Peckham, Ph.D., a pioneer of incentivizing artisanal fishing to advance marine stewardship based in La Paz, México, has been awarded a 2014 Pew fellowship in marine conservation to expand …
Scientists letter for high seas biodiversity agreement
Many of us believe that a new high seas biodiversity agreement, based on the precautionary principle and ecosystem approach, is necessary for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in …
Lionfish: beautiful invaders of the Caribbean and East Coast
By Laura Sesana This article originally appeared on CDN The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland will be educating museum goers about the dangerously invasive Lionfish that threaten Caribbean waters …
Ancient and Vulnerable: 25 Percent of Sharks and Rays Risk Extinction
There are more than a thousand species of sharks and rays in the world, and nearly a quarter of them are threatened with extinction, according to a new study. That …
Methane hydrate offshore is tempting, perilous natural gas
It’s called fire ice: methane hydrate, the natural gas lying off South Carolina, the fuel widely acknowledged to be driving a campaign to open the deep ocean offshore to oil …
JetBlue Partners With The Ocean Foundation for a Unique Business Take on Ocean Conservation
JetBlue Airways(JBLU), today announces a unique partnership with The Ocean Foundation focusing on the long-term health of the Caribbean’s oceans and beaches, a Commitment to Action developed at the Clinton …
Research Newsletter (2006, 1st Quarter)
The Ocean Foundation is the first “community foundation” for the oceans, with all the well-established tools of a community foundation and a unique focus on marine conservation. As such, The …
Research Newsletter (2005, 3rd Quarter)
by Mark J. Spalding The Ocean Foundation is the first “community foundation” for the oceans, with all the well-established tools of a community foundation and a unique focus on marine …
