ocean

5 Steps for Ocean Climate Action Across the Biden Administration

With more than 94 million Americans living near oceans and coasts, it is essential that the plan includes related risks and solutions.

April 22, 2021
People walking in tropical storm

The Ocean Decade Provides an Opportunity to Transform Maritime Shipping

We can push for more ambitious decarbonization goals and explore potential contributions to the data and science goals.

April 21, 2021
Cargo ships en route

The Ocean Is the Key to Economic Recovery

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

June 30, 2020
maritime worker on ship

A Dive to the Mariana Trench

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.

June 29, 2020

Celebrating Our Ocean on Earth Day

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

April 22, 2020
View of ocean from space

In a Time of Stress and Social Distancing, Water Is Medicine

Nature provides a sanctuary from everyday life, a place to tune out from modern stress and return to our primal selves. And in these days of social distancing and escalating tension, water can be medicine.

March 26, 2020
Women with dog by ocean

The Path to a High Seas Treaty

The UN recognizes that our window of opportunity to save ocean ecosystems is closing.

April 18, 2019