The Environment

New York Times investigative reporter Ian Urbina spent five perilous years jumping aboard fishing vessels and talking with the victims of the inhumanities in ungoverned waters.

On Friday June 28, 2019, during the Aspen Ideas Festival, AHSI Executive Director Michael Conathan hosted a Facebook Live conversation with Janis Searles Jones, CEO of the Ocean Conservancy and Daniela Fernandez, CEO of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance.

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

Mary Robinson talks about climate change and its humanitarian impacts.

Sustainability is not just a buzzword — it’s an imperative.

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.

Aspen High Seas Initiative Executive Director Michael Conathan has been invited to provide testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing on “Our Blue Economy: Successes and Opportunities.”

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

The CEOs of Patagonia and Eileen Fisher talk about their shared value of social consciousness.