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Coral and Climate Message for Copenhagen
This powerful 12-minute video was developed for the Copenhagen summit. Coral reefs first appeared more than 400 million years ago. This film shows the devastating effect of climate change on the world’s incredible, diverse coral reefs. It paints a disturbing picture of a world that has lost its reefs forever – our world in 2065. […]
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Powerful information tool for Copenhagen and global citizens
The Climate Scoreboard Video from Climate Interactive on Vimeo.
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How Understanding the Human Mind Might Save the World
An article today by Annie Jia in ClimateWire and reporting from the recently-concluded third annual Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, nicely summarizes what we need to stay focused on to create a culture change, and a better, healthier planet for all.Understanding people is the key, and it’s why The Ocean Project invests so much […]
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Results Available from First Ocean and Climate Change Tracking Survey
The results from our first tracking survey are now available online. Also on our website are a couple of recent presentations from AZA that explain the findings, including America and the Ocean v2.0 — A Summary of Findings Developed by The Ocean Project, by the lead researcher for this initiative, Scott Corwon, with IMPACTS. The […]
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Leadership on climate change from most vulnerable nations
Earlier this week, and just a few weeks before talks in Copenhagen, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a nation facing the very real threat of being overwhelmed by rising seas due to climate change, gave an impassioned speech at the Climate Vulnerable Forum. In it he challenged the nations most vulnerable to climate change […]
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International Day of Climate Action on October 24
Hopefully by now you have heard about 350.org‘s efforts around the world this weekend and are planning to join an action to draw attention to climate change. As of today there are over 4,000 events planned in 170 countries.The reason for the group’s name? Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere […]
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Sigourney Weaver Takes on Ocean Acidification
ACID TEST, a film produced by NRDC, was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet. Like global warming, ocean acidification stems from the increase of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere since the […]
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A Blueprint for Restoring the World’s Oceans to Health
Sylvia Earle – also known as “Her Deepness” and featured earlier this year in this blog when she won a coveted TED Prize – has written a book, The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One, published earlier this year and in which she discusses the huge changes in the world’s […]
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NOAA Announces Ocean Education Grants to Aquariums
On October 5, NOAA announced 11 grants totaling more than $9 million that will create new education projects in aquariums across the nation. The projects will educate visitors about the ocean and encourage better stewardship of the marine environment. Read NOAA’s full news posting.
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