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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.

Critical Climate Change Talks at COP24
On December 2nd, thousands of delegates representing 200 countries will gather in Katowice, Poland for what will be the most important climate conference since the signing of the Paris Accord in 2015. The goal of COP24 is to agree on a “work program” limiting the...

Coca Cola, Pepsi and Nestle on List of Top Ten Plastic Polluters
Single-use plastic debris has washed ashore on beaches around the world, Where does it all come from? Now, more than two hundred cleanups in 42 countries worldwide has resulted in the collection of 187,000 pieces of plastic trash. And that resulted in a list of the...

Is Extinction Inevitable for the Southern Resident Orcas?
For 17 days this summer, a grieving Mother Orca captured the hearts of the world when she refused to follow her pod. Known by researchers as J35, the mother circled an area off Vancouver Island in an effort to keep her deceased newborn baby afloat. As attention...

The Most Powerful Yet Rarely-Used Tool for Sustainable Businesses and Ocean Changemakers
We are back on deck after a week in Las Vegas presenting our #bluegreen seminars and meeting sustainable business owners in our changemaker community at DEMA Show 2018. (Oh... the irony of doing ocean sustainability seminars in the desert.) Like many of you who...

Vaquita Sighting “If we stop killing them, they will recover”
A half dozen, critically endangered vaquitas were sighted in the Gulf of California in September renewing calls for the Mexican government to do more. The vaquita sighting was both good and bad news for the fate of the beleaguered porpoises. One of the vaquitas...

Fourth Element Makes Waves with the SURFACE Sustainable Wetsuit
If you need a new wetsuit for freediving, snorkeling or on-the-surface water sports give Fourth Element a shout. SURFACE is Fourth Element’s and the Dive Industry’s first certified sustainable wetsuit. SURFACE SURFACE is made with Yulex® Pure a 100%...

World’s Largest Oil Spill Undetected for 14 Years
You’ve heard of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On April 20, 2010 an explosion occurred on a British Petroleum oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The rig was drilling an exploratory well in 5,100 feet of water. Of the 126 crew on...

Wonders of the Sea 3D Coming to a Theater Near You
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Michel Cousteau have teamed up to bring you Wonders of the Sea, an inspiring 85 minute underwater documentary. Wonders of the Sea follows famed filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau and his children Celine and Fabien on a voyage of unknown,...