An American white pelican sits on her nest in Minnesota. The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon are being felt in -- you guessed it -- Minnesota. White pelicans that winter in the Gulf of Mexico and have lived in...
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Deep-sea corals. © NOAA Even more sad news from the Gulf of Mexico, but this time it runs a mile deep. A new study confirms that the oil that likely caused deepwater coral sickness indeed came from the largest accidental oil spill in history, the D...
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© Oceana/Jesus Renedo Sad news from the Gulf of Mexico: At least 32 dolphins in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, one of the hardest hit spots by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, have been given physicals and are reported as severely ill according to NOAA o...
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© Oceana Offshore wind development got a huge boost last week when the Department of Energy announced that it would provide $180 million in funding to support four planned offshore wind farms off the U.S. Atlantic coast. To get the ball rolling, $20...
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© Oceana The Fukushima nuclear disaster, sparked by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan last March, has led the Japanese government to embrace a safer energy source: offshore wind. Japan seeks to expand its wind energy capacity and comp...
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Matt Huelsenbeck is a marine scientist at Oceana. Oceana has teamed up with several top scientific institutions in creating a report called "Hot, Sour & Breathless – Ocean Under Stress" which has been released this week at the United Nations cl...
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As world leaders prepare for international climate change negotiations next week in Durban, South Africa, a new study out this week depicts the widespread threats that climate change presents for marine fisheries. The bottom line? Emissions from the ...
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A little blue penguin covered in oil. © Jeremy Gray/Flickr Matthew Huelsenbeck is a marine scientist at Oceana. A cargo ship has wrecked on a reef off the coast of New Zealand and the oil spill and wreckage is being called the worst maritime environ...
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A soapfish in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen The first study showing the biological impacts to wildlife from last year’s Gulf oil spill has just been published in PNAS, and the news is not good for fish populations.  After ...
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 After the Gulf oil spill happened, people demanded numbers. They wanted to know animal mortality numbers and dollar signs to understand the worst environmental disaster in our nation’s history. The problem is that the extent of this spill wa...
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Small velella surrounded by plastic. © Scripps Institution of Oceanography Imagine you’re in a dimly lit Italian restaurant. Famished, you take the first bite of a juicy eggplant parmesan dinner, and it turns out to be a big hunk of plastic. (Yuk....
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