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Why the Larsen C Ice Shelf Break is Such a Big Deal

Something is very wrong on our planet’s poles. Temperatures soared in the Arctic over the weekend as the storm system that brought snow and freezing rain to the US’s east coast this week pushed warm air into the Arctic. Scientists...

PODCAST: The UN just wrapped up Its first-ever oceans conference. Here’s What happened.

Gregory Stone once lived underwater for 30 days. He is an ocean scientist and author who has spent a career studying and advocating on behalf of our oceans. He’s now with an executive vice president with Conservation International and is...

These Two New Studies Show that Our Oceans are Basically Doomed (Unless…)

Climate change is beginning to affect the lives of communities around the word. With temperature records being broken, yearly, monthly and daily, severe droughts imperiling food systems and bizarre storms disrupting economies and claiming lives around the world, it’s becoming...

Oceans on the Agenda at Rio+20

This nicely animated video from the Pew Environment Group and the Zoological Society of London does a good job of summing up one important part of the conversation in Rio next week: sustaining healthy oceans.

Why the Larsen C Ice Shelf Break is Such a Big Deal

PODCAST: The UN just wrapped up Its first-ever oceans conference. Here’s What happened.

These Two New Studies Show that Our Oceans are Basically Doomed (Unless…)

Oceans on the Agenda at Rio+20

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations