Today Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas deposits in ...
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The now-extinct baiji ©Wikimedia Commons In this thought-provoking piece on the National Geographic's Ocean Views blog, Mediterranean Science Commission director general Frederic Briand discusses the precarious and uncertain fate of ocean creatures ...
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Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless Sometime early next year the Department of the Interior will decide whether to approve seismic airgun testing to search for oil and gas deposits in a wide swath of ocean, from Delaware to Florida. If the Department goes ahea...
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©Oceana Editor’s note: This blog by actress and environmentalist Victoria Principal was originally posted at NRDC’s OnEarth blog. I’ve been fascinated with marine life like whales and dolphins since I was a kid. Their grace and power, their b...
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The Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas in vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware to Florida with seismic airguns, an activity that, by the Department's own estimate, will injure 138,500 dolphi...
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Protesters brave the rain ©OCEANA Yesterday Oceana and its supporters braved foul weather to protest a truly foul idea. Armed with airhorns and megaphones they gave the Department of the Interior (DOI) a tiny preview of what is in store for the ocea...
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What started as a ripple of concern over the pending arrival of a super trawler to be based in Devonport, Tasmania, soon became “a wave of outrage,” according to an article today in the Mercury. Tasmanian fishermen started the murmur of dis...
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We've been working to stop proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic, which could injure marine mammals such as the endangered right whale. But seismic testing is a pretty hard thing to visualize, so I asked one of our marine scientists, Matt Huelsenbec...
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© Reuters What will happen to marine life if the government allows seismic testing, using loud airgun blasts, to search for oil and gas deep beneath the seabed along the U.S. Atlantic coast in the next few years? The answer may be foreshadowed by th...
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A soapfish in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Today marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Oil has long stopped flowing from the leaking rig, but that doesn’t mean the disaster is over. Local fishermen have been making s...
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© Oceana/Carlos Minguell In the last three months, more than 3,000 dolphins have washed ashore in Peru, most likely due to offshore oil exploration. Oil companies in the region often use sonar or acoustic soundings to detect oil beneath the floor of...
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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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