Ocean Program News Today

Oceans help keep temperatures on Earth balanced. Yet rising temperatures are affecting their ability to serve as a heat buffer.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor met with high school students from the 2024 Insular Area Close Up Program, a program funded by the Office

WASHINGTON (U.S. Department of the Interior) — Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor on Thursday, May 23, met with high school students from the 2024 Insular

Pelican Island Bridge traffic reopened days after a barge crashed into it, but crews are beginning to get a sense of the environmental impacts.

SailGP Champions, partners, and community youth lead second annual clean up of Sydney's most polluted beach.Over 100 volunteers remove 120kg of marine

Groups filed a legal challenge today against DOI for failing to adequately consider public health impacts in its final Five-Year Program.

WASHINGTON (November 13, 2023) – World Resources Institute (WRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Pickerell as the new Global Ocean Program Director. Starting in late November 2023, Pickerell will work with WRI’s global staff and partners to oversee and manage WRI’s Ocean Program and the Secretariat for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy. He will be based at WRI’s office in London, United Kingdom.

Flour Bluff ISD students are gaining hands-on ecosystem restoration experience by participating in the Ocean Program.

One-fourth of the planet’s population in 25 countries experiences extremely high water stress annually, using nearly all of their available water supply on a regular basis, according to new data from the World Resources Institute (WRI)’s Aqueduct Water Risk.

One fourth of the planet’s population in 25 countries experiences extremely high water stress annually, according to new data from WRI.