From Ocean Elders Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental issues facing our oceans today. The Clean Oceans Project (TCOP) has developed a unique approach to solving this problem that not only removes plastic from our oceans, but transforms… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra There’s a worldwide movement to ban the one use plastic bag. It’s up for vote in my neck of the woods. I’ve read some wild letters to the editor about why the plastic bag is good for… Read More ›
From the Surfrider Foundation–Raptoberfest Just like everyone has a carbon footprint, people also have a plastic footprint – which measures how much plastic a person uses during a given time period. While it is impossible – and arguably… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: The oceans seem so big that they appear immune to change. But the fact that the oceans comprise 71% of Planet Earth, perhaps it is time for educating ourselves about the oceans and how they regulate our weather,… Read More ›
By Charmaine Coimbra This year I’ve been up close and personal with marine entanglement. A near-handful of northern elephant seals that hauled out to molt at Piedras Blancas, where I volunteer as a docent, arrived with strapping bands around their necks. If the straps… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: Before reading another dismal report on the conditions our ocean’s face, some communities are trying to stop one use plastics within their communites, such as this report from Surfrider Foundation: Supermarkets, pharmacies and certain retail stores in Long… Read More ›
The treatment of factory farm animals is nightmarish enough, but their wastes grow into an environmental catastrophe that directly affects our seas
Visit “Students Take a Vacation Saving Coral” on Neptune 911 for Kids From NPR February 23, 2011 A major new survey of the world’s coral reefs finds that they are in trouble. Big trouble. Overfishing and local pollution continue to… Read More ›
When a friend returned from her Hawaiian holiday she called me in near tears. “We didn’t stay in a resort this time, where the beaches are always clean, so when I took a beachside walk and found mounds of… Read More ›
Dominos. It’s like 150 years of stacked dominoes collapsing in four directions from Rugby, North Dakota, North America’s geographical center and from every geographical center of every continent on Planet Earth—with the final dominos landing in every sea that touches every continent. Collapsing dominos. That’s how I envision the condition of our seas today.
Neptune 911! 