WATER

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is one of the most important environmental protection laws in the United States.

The commercial fishing industry is growing at an unsustainable pace and, coupled with climate change, is at risk of collapse. From fresh sushi to a family meal, and even cattle feed, many consume ocean species in various forms, but how is waste affecting this already depleting resource?

Is your sunscreen harming the ocean? Find out what reef-safe sunscreen is and why you should start using it this summer.

We’ve all seen the images of plastic pollution littering the oceans, but how much do we know about how it actually gets there?

As natural disasters, like hurricanes, become more common across the globe, we are seeing higher numbers of climate displacement and migration. Coastal communities are among the areas impacted, yet, so many residents refuse to leave.

There’s no one solution to decreasing plastic waste—plastics have become too ingrained into our culture. Plastic pollution is a global crisis that carries with it a catalog of environmental and human health implications, starting from when they are first disposed of on land to when they eventually end up in the ocean.

The more you know about the outdoors, the easier it becomes to want to protect it. So, in an effort to help motivate more outdoor lovers to keep our trails clean, here is an overview of riparian zones and the importance of keeping them clean.

While we may all know a lot about the impacts of litter on marine ecosystems, we know very little about the human lives on land that are put in jeopardy every day due to litter.

Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica, and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench.

Our consumption of contaminated seafood, microplastics can potentially act as a toxin to humans. For the sake of our environmental and human health, it is important to seek areas of change in the harmful life cycle of plastics.