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
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
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
It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions By Bob Berwyn
The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years 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
Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s By Bob Berwyn