Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change. In a sea of perpetually updated newsfeeds, we create editorial content with the goal to inform, inspire and include ocean advocates of all ages and backgrounds.
This journal is an ongoing log of our collective movement — a record of the people, projects and ideas that inspire our mission and move us forward. To keep up with the latest, check in here, follow our social media channels and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Wavelengths.
Parley AIR: Understanding Ocean Currents
A major ocean current system could collapse in the next century. The fallout would be catastrophic.
Parley AIR: Innovations driving the Material Revolution
Explore the nature inspired innovations transforming the material world .
The octopus’s garden flourishing at the bottom of the ocean
We speak to Dr. Beth Orcutt and Dr. Jorge Cortés about their stunning discoveries made aboard a Schmidt Ocean Institute vessel.
Parley AIR: Plastics in 2023
The biggest plastic stories of 2023 and how 2024 will be one of the biggest years in the push for change.
Parley AIR: Mining the Deep Sea
Meetings this month will set the tone for deep sea mining and exploration from here on out.
Parley AIR: A guide to forever chemicals
The chemicals used to make plastic are contaminating everything, including us.
Dawn Wright: Rolling in the Deep
We speak to the history-making scientist about interconnectivity, the darkness of Challenger Deep, and the light she sees in the world.
Parley AIR: Plastics and the Pandemic
How the plastics industry used the pandemic to push single-use plastics, and what we’ve learned in three years.
Parley AIR: Plastics and the food we eat
A look at the plastics and pollutants infiltrating every part of the food system.
Parley AIR: Why we do cleanups
Are beach cleanups actually helping? A closer look at a piece of the solutions puzzle
Parley AIR: The High Seas Treaty
Poorly regulated international waters make up almost 95% of the global ocean.
Blue Carbon: What a scientist wants you to know about seaweed
Dr. Ana Queirós shares the questions guiding seaweed research in the Orkney Islands
Ross Edgley's non-stop swim for seaweed
Ross Edgley smashed a world-record during a 53-hour non-stop Loch Ness swim to protect kelp forests in Scottish waters
The microbiologist blowing up Instagram with her close up videos of tardigrades
We spoke with @tardibabe about her kaleidoscopic videos of microbes, dancing and wriggling on petri dishes.
Lamya Essemlali: We Need to Take the Pressure Off The Ocean
The President of Sea Shepherd France explains the perils of overfishing and power of personal action
Parley AIR Social Justice: Plastics production and Frontline Communities
Plastics plants are concentrated in one part of the U.S. and disproportionately impact poor and BIPOC communities.
Fighting big plastic — and winning
Learn how Sharon Lavigne is keeping chemical companies from building new plastics plants in her community.
Parley AIR Social Justice: Pollution Has No Boundaries
The oceans know no borders, and are an all-connecting link for the world’s plastic.
THE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT SHOWING SEA LIFE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE
Scroll through Aron Sanchez-Baranda’s Instagram page, and you may think you’d stumbled across an archive of extraterrestrial life.