Marine Environment

Prior to the pandemic, the multitrillion global ocean economy was growing faster in the US than our national economy as a whole.

On June 14, 2020, just days after she became the first woman ever to visit the deepest point of the global ocean, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, former NASA astronaut and NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan spoke with the Aspen High Seas Initiative’s Executive Director, Michael Conathan.

Let’s spend Earth Day remembering the two-thirds of our planet that makes it uniquely suited to foster life.

On Friday, November 22, 2019 during an Aspen Ministers Forum convened in Vienna, Austria by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, the Aspen High Seas Initiative (AHSI) presented a special session on the accelerating global biodiversity crisis and urgent need to strengthen targets for conservation of marine biodiversity in particular.

A tide of threats against the ocean is rising, but pioneering ocean scientist and advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, co-chair of the Aspen High Seas Initiative, has a solution.

Regulators must take caution as companies push to mine the ocean floor.

Half the planet’s surface is protected by no international rules or regulations — and it needs our help.

Follow the RV Falkor on its expedition to the White Shark Café.