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Teresa Tomassoni

Oceans Correspondent

Teresa Tomassoni is an environmental journalist covering the intersections between oceans, climate change, coastal communities and wildlife for Inside Climate News. Her previous work has appeared in The Washington Post, NPR, NBC Latino and the Smithsonian American Indian Magazine. Teresa holds a master’s degree in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She is also a recipient of the Stone & Holt Weeks Social Justice Reporting Fellowship. She has taught journalism for Long Island University and the School of the New York Times. She is an avid scuba diver and spends much of her free time underwater.

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A humpback whale lunges out of the water while feeding on krill in the Gerlache Strait in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Ryan Reisinger

Scientists Call for More Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

‘Amazon of the Seas’ Threatened by Oil and Gas Developments

By Teresa Tomassoni

A crab inhabits a bed of eelgrass at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. Eelgrass provides critical habitat for hundreds of species. Credit: Holly Plaisted/National Park Service

Seagrasses Capture Carbon 35 Times Faster Than Tropical Rainforests. Scientists Are Working to Save Them

By Teresa Tomassoni

Fish swim underwater at North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos on March 11. Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas marine protected zone under the U.N. high seas treaty to secure a much wider area around the Galapagos islands. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

To Protect Vast Expanses of Ocean Beyond All National Boundaries, 60 Nations Must Ratify the Treaty of the High Seas

By Teresa Tomassoni

A cargo ship leaves the Panama Canal in Panama City on Oct. 2. Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images

Pacific and Caribbean Island Nations Call for the First Universal Carbon Levy on International Shipping Emissions

By Teresa Tomassoni

Alizee Zimmermann applies antibiotic paste to a star coral affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Patricia Guardiola Slattery

Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

By Teresa Tomassoni

A sperm whale dives underwater as a Greenpeace sailing vessel, named the Witness, goes on a scientific expedition in August 2024 in Norway. Credit: Christian Åslund/Greenpeace

Norway’s Plan for Seabed Mining Threatens Arctic Marine Life, Greenpeace Says

By Teresa Tomassoni

A team of scientists work on the PACE satellite in May 2023. Credit: NASA

New NASA Mission Tracks Microscopic Organisms in the Ocean and Tiny Particles in the Air to Monitor Climate Change

By Teresa Tomassoni

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