If national parks are one of the most successful conservation tools ever developed on land, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are their ocean equivalent — and the evidence increasingly shows that, […]
Plastic pollution on beaches has moved from an occasional eyesore to one of the most persistent, visible symptoms of a global environmental problem — one that touches virtually every coastline […]
Every year, millions of volunteers around the world spend a few hours of their weekend picking up trash along a stretch of coastline they may or may not visit again. […]
Walk along a rocky shoreline at low tide and you’ll find them everywhere — small pockets of trapped seawater nestled among the rocks, each one hosting a surprisingly dense and […]
Every year, on beaches around the world, female sea turtles emerge from the ocean under cover of darkness to dig nests and lay eggs in the very same stretch of […]
Pick up a handful of sand from almost any beach in the world today, and there’s a real chance it contains fragments of plastic too small to easily see with […]
Every coastline is, in a sense, always in motion — sand arrives, sand leaves, and the shoreline shifts accordingly over timescales ranging from a single storm to entire centuries. What’s […]
Ask most people to name an important coastal ecosystem and you’ll hear coral reefs, mangroves, maybe salt marshes — seagrass meadows rarely make the list, despite being one of the […]
Ask someone why coral reefs matter and you’ll usually hear about tropical fish and diving tourism — genuinely important, but far from the whole story. Coral reefs perform a quieter, […]
Twice a day, in most parts of the world, a strip of coastline disappears underwater and then reappears again a few hours later. For the organisms that live there, this […]
