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 ›
Ocean Trash
Ocean Plastics, Trash Sabotage Young Gray Whale’s Life
Editor’s Note: The gray whale is currently in migration from their summer feeding grounds in the Artic Ocean to their birthing and breeding grounds in Mexico. To follow a gray whale’s migration route and for more about the dangers these… Read More ›
Transforming Plastic Waste in The Sea to Fuel
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 ›
More Plastic Debris than Plankton in the Gyres?
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 ›
10 Ways To Reduce Your Plastic Use
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 ›
Recycle Your Cell Phone-Help Clean Oceans Project
October is recycle your cell phone month at The Clean Oceans Project. There are more than 500 million used cell phones in the U.S. sitting in people’s drawers, or worse, in our landfills. Another 130 million will be added… Read More ›
Community Event Scores 100% Zero Waste
By Charmaine Coimbra Throw it out. Get rid of it. Toss it. A big truck empties the waste can and all that garbage, useless junk, and trash goes away and disappears. But not really. Landfills produce about one-third of… Read More ›
Marine Mammal Entanglement Up Close & Personal
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 ›
Plastics: “Most pervasive pollution problems facing the world’s oceans…”
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 ›
Gulf of Mexico Possible “Largest Dead Zone Ever”
From PBS News Hour A dead zone — already the size of the state of New Jersey — is growing in the Gulf of Mexico, fueled by nutrient runoff from the swollen Mississippi River. This year, with floodwaters from the… Read More ›
Neptune 911! 