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Ocean News for Ocean People
Blue Ocean Network offers ocean news for ocean people, just like you, who deeply care and are ready to dive in as an ocean change-maker. Whether you live inland or on the water, ocean news provides articles that focus on your daily connections to the sea. You’ll find inspiring stories from ocean activists, scientists, and people just like you that are making large and small contributions to protecting our Blue Home. Discover sustainable solutions that will help you make sustainable choices.
Saving Whales with Satellites
Cetaceans are hard to keep track of. It’s ironic the largest animals in the world are so difficult to follow, but studying and protecting 90-plus species in 1.39 billion cubic kilometers of ocean is a continuing challenge. Which brings up the possibility of saving...
Marine Citizen Science Fills the Gap in Scuba
As recreational diving has been around since the 1940s, scuba diving is in constant evolution. Technology and globalization have made it easier for scuba divers to refine their interests in the underwater world, and to do so more safely than ever before. However, the...
Fighting Climate Change is not the only battle at COP24
Delegates representing 200 countries are just half way through their two-week long climate change conference in Katowice, Poland and they are already finding that fighting climate change is not the only battle they are confronting. Known as COP24, this is the most...
PADI and Reef-World Make Sustainable Diving the New Norm
21 November 2018: PADI® and Reef-World have joined forces to promote sustainable diving practices for the protection of the marine environment. This partnership will raise awareness and deliver tools to implement the Green Fins standard of best practice, helping to...
Plastic Pollution Options Offered at Our Ocean Conference
The main focus of the recent Our Ocean Conference in Bali asked the question what are our plastic pollution options? The companies and countries in attendance, presented commitments to recycling, producing products using recycled material, and how to combat plastics...
Sherman’s Lagoon Creator brings us The Adventures of Zack and Molly
Cartoonist Jim Toomey entertains us, while also sharing some very important messages. His new series The Adventures of Zack and Molly delights us with 2 very unlikely characters: Zack is more engaged with his smartphone than the real world, while Molly is from a...
Stunning aerial images of whales, but why are they no longer singing?
Drones have captured new and stunning aerial Images of whales that are both spectacular and an aid for conservation.. "Seeing them from above, it's giving you another complete view," said Fabien Vivier, a PhD student at UH Manoa, Hawaii. "And it's really amazing,...
5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power
Small Works Matter by Sarah Lazarovic. Reposted with permission from our media associate YES! Magazine. See these Related Blue Ocean Articles: Can Sushi Be Sustainable? ‘Sustainable Fashion Awards’ Presented at Milan’s Fashion Week Summing Up the Global...