Stories
The Fish at the Heart of the Food System
This article originally appeared on Limn and was co-written by Alison Fairbrother and David Schleifer You have never seen a menhaden, but you have eaten one. Although no one sits …
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 …
Part 3: After the storm – plastics in the ocean
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation and Caroline Coogan, Foundation Assistant, The Ocean Foundation At The Ocean Foundation, we have been thinking a lot about consequences. We are …
Part 2: The aftermath of the surge – what the ocean carries home
By Angel Braestrup, Chair, Board of Advisors, The Ocean Foundation All over the world, 2012 and 2013 will be remembered for unusual amounts of rainfall, powerful storm surges, and unprecedented …
Sleeping with the enemy – if we don’t learn to live with climate change we are doomed!
By Nirmal Jivan Shah of Nature Seychelles and TOF Advisory Board Member This blog originally appeared in the International Coalition of Tourism Partners Member News It is the biggest story …
Part 1: Storm Surge: When the Ocean Comes Ashore
By Angel Braestrup, Chair, Board of Advisors, The Ocean Foundation We’ve all seen the pictures and videos. Some of us have even witnessed it firsthand. A big storm pushes water …
In Gratitude with Optimism
Every friend of the ocean is important, of course, and so are the donations they make. And sometimes, we get a donation that is accompanied by a note that makes …
Stop the Trash
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This blog originally appeared on NatGeo’s Ocean Views We once believed that the ocean was too big to fail, that we could …
From Lisbon to Leyte
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation History majors such as me are often asked how we wound up working on ocean governance and conservation. Sitting here in the …
A Struggle To Capture Whale Footage
By Chris Palmer, TOF Advisory Board Member We only had two days left and the weather was closing in and getting stormy. We hadn’t gotten the footage we needed yet …
