May 20 2013 | Blue Water Task Force, by Mara Dias The Surfrider chapters, volunteers, teachers & students that make up the Blue Water Task Force supported by Emergen-C Blue®, undertook a massive water monitoring effort at their local beaches… Read More ›
Coastal Clean-Up
Ten Million Pounds of Trash Cleaned Of 17,719 Miles of Coastline
By Erika Bolstad — McClatchy Washington Bureau, May 15, 2013 WASHINGTON — It’s a beach bummer. Shorelines worldwide are clogged with trash, so much so that during their annual cleanup last year, volunteers with the Ocean Conservancy picked up… Read More ›
Plastic Art Defines the Plastic in Oceans
We have a new blog for the young children in your life: Neptune 911 For Kids. This fun blog features stories about ocean-hero kids, marine mammals, ways to save the ocean, and pages about the unique and weird creatures one… Read More ›
Plastics “Suffocating the World”
Thanks to Australians for Animals for posting this infographic from http://www.learnstuff.com
The Risky Disentangling A California Grey Whale
“Looking into those eyes staring at you was kind of neat… Their eyes seem to be very thoughtful.”
47% Of Beach Pollution From Ag & Rain Runoff
By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles TimesJune 27, 2012 Beaches across the nation continue to be fouled by sewage and storm water pollution that puts swimmers at risk of getting sick, according to a report by an environmental group. The Natural… Read More ›
Blame It On Laguna Beach
By Charmaine Coimbra Blame it on my summers in Laguna Beach. From here on out, that’s my answer to, “But there are so many other pressing challenges to tackle other than plastics in the ocean.” Those two weeks away from… Read More ›
World Oceans Day, June 8
A Message From World Oceans Day. org: June 8, 2012 is World Oceans Day, a day when people around the globe come together to celebrate our ocean and take action to protect it. And with good cause! The ocean not… Read More ›
Gulf Oil Spill is “A Tangled Web of Impact” 2-Years Later
Editor’s Note: Recent Updates on After Effects of BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Five articles follow. From Huffington Post: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After months of laboratory work, scientists say they can definitively finger oil from BP’s… Read More ›
Seaborn Rubbish Trashes Once Pristine Beaches and Sea
From the Los Angeles Times By Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 27, 2012, 4:45 p.m. Reporting from Mahahual, Mexico— Just off a rutted dirt road, a beach as white as flour pops into view from behind a wall… Read More ›
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