Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of Oceana magazine. Click here to read the original article. Aquarium pets don’t belong in the frozen foods aisle. But that’s exactly what Oceana’s Kim Warner and Rachel Golden found last summer, during an investigation of Gulf Coast shrimp. Using DNA testing, they discovered a banded … Read more
Editor’s Note: This article orginally appeared in Oceana’s Winter 2015 magazine. Click here to view the original article. Scientists estimate that only one in 1,000 loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings survive to adulthood. From the moment these turtles hatch from their eggs, they’re at risk from natural and manmade threats. Hatchlings make a tasty treat for wildlife along the … Read more
Last week, a train carrying highly combustible oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota derailed in West Virginia, causing 27 tank cars to go off the tracks with several tankers catching fire or exploding. Mushroom clouds following the derailment polluted the sky, sending the surrounding community into a state of panic. Hundreds of families … Read more
Recent national news stories have shown emaciated California sea lion pups being rescued and admitted to marine mammal rehabilitation centers. The sight of hundreds of withered sea lions is reminiscent of the all-too-recent California sea lion “unusual mortality event” in 2013 followed by a significant number of stranded and dead sea lions last year. Dying … Read more
Yesterday the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a draft five-year oil and gas leasing plan for the United States’ Outer Continental Shelf from 2017 to 2022. The proposal would open the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas development for the first time, as well as cover leasing for parts of the Gulf of … Read more
Did you know that you can order shark fin soup online? Shark fin soup is hailed as a delicacy in many nations around the world, but it comes at a cost to these top ocean predators: Estimates say that about 73 million sharks are killed for their fins each year through the brutal practice of … Read more
On Wednesday, residents of Tampa, Florida may have seen a shark walking around on land. Oceana’s Dusky the Shark came ashore to visit the Florida Aquarium in an effort to raise awareness about the dwindling population of his fellow dusky sharks. The visit was a stop on Dusky’s “Bucket List” – a campaign to meet … Read more
Unlike other coastal regions of the U.S., the Atlantic Ocean has remained free of dirty oil and gas exploration and drilling for many decades. This past summer, the Obama Administration began reviewing applications for the use of seismic airguns along the East Coast in a region stretching from Delaware to Florida, in an area twice … Read more
By Jaime McClain On Wednesday, Oceana released a report that found offshore wind energy in the Atlantic would produce twice the number of jobs and twice the amount of energy as those promised by the oil and gas industry. The report, “Offshore Energy by the Numbers, the Economic Analysis of Offshore Drilling and Wind Energy in the … Read more
Oceana, alongside an international team of scientists, discovered a new species of glass sponge in the western Mediterranean. Sympagella delauzei measures about three to five inches long, and as found as depths of about 1,100 to 1,600 feet. Because Mediterranean waters are generally not favorable to glass sponges, which prefer colder waters, the discovery came as a … Read more
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