Surfers, environmental institutions, and the local community engaged in beach cleanup, planting native trees and shared environmental education in the Barrinha restinga, a permanent preservation area.

“We have just one ocean, a continuous amount of water, and that ocean is filled with [up to an estimated] 11 million tonnes of waste”

Highlighting the top fleets in the world for animal ocean defense.

Art collective TRES (Ilana Boltvinik & Rodrigo Viñas) draws you in with this fascinating idea from debris collected and photographed from the beaches of Australia.

Ocean Futures Proposed Solutions for International Fisheries

Funded by their founding sponsor, XL Catlin, an innovative underwater 360-degree camera (the SVII design) was created to see the ocean on the Street View platform.

Many satellites are considered disposable and burnt after just five or 10 years, releasing heavy metal and carbon particles that sprinkle close to the Earth.

Mauritian women formed South-East Ladies Agro collective to produce organic farming after oil spill ruined their fishing industry. In 2020, MV Wakashio spilled 1,000 tons of fuel oil into protected coastal waters destroying coral reefs and mangroves, marine life, and ended generations of fishing traditions.  Learn more about this initiative at https://borgenproject.org/south-east-ladies-agro-collective/

Data centers should reduce their electricity use at peak hour by drawing energy from batteries on site. Jigar Shah is a managing director at Multiplier, a clean tech consultancy, and former Energy Department official.  Shah explains how installing batteries can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy in an interview with Yale Environment 360: https://e360.yale.edu/features/jigar-shah-interview

In Niger, Africa a technique to “make” rain is being used to fight drought.

Solar, wind and geothermal power plants are all being used to help the planet and the communities. 

Poland’s first offshore wind farms secures financing with Ocean Winds

International Maritime Organization 2020 regulation is continuing to make an impact

In Washington, along the Anacostia River mainstem there is a Boathouse Row, where you’ll find many historic boathouses, such as the nation’s oldest African American yacht club.

In May 2025, the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF) 50th meeting at the U.S. Department of the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. had for the very first time, an Environmental Compliance Workshop to assist states and jurisdictions with project proposals and environmental compliance processes! 

A Coral Reef Conservation Program 2025 Knauss Fellow

Learn how a Marine protected area was born after the community fought back for 10 years against the Dominga port mining project in Chile

The Shark Fin Hunters. A documentary to protect the ocean’s top predator.

30 Cities program launched to eliminate plastic pollution from rivers by 1/3 by 2030

Coldplay’s latest record, Moon Music, created from plastic caught by an ocean clean up machine