Oceans

A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Ocean-based renewable energy could play a big role in decarbonizing the U.S., and healthier oceans can help stabilize the climate, the Ocean Climate Action Plan suggests.

By Bob Berwyn

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

Sea Level Rise Could Drive 1 in 10 People from Their Homes, with Dangerous Implications for International Peace, UN Secretary General Warns

By Bob Berwyn

Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

By Delaney Dryfoos

Two Towns in Washington Take Steps Toward Recognizing the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

By Katie Surma

To Save Whales, Should We Stop Eating Lobster?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones

Ocean Protection Around Hawaiian Islands Boosts Far-Flung ‘Ahi Populations

By Bob Berwyn

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions

By Bob Berwyn

Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

By Gilbert M. Gaul

New Study Identifies Rapidly Emerging Threats to Oceans

By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn

Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

By Bob Berwyn

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn