Finding New Homes Won’t Help Emperor Penguins Cope with Climate Change
Mission Blue is a proud supporter of the WHOI emperor penguin study in collaboration with WHOI and The French National Research Agency! If projections for melting Antarctic sea ice through 2100 are...
View ArticleGreat Barrier Reef Legacy: Safeguarding Australia’s National Treasure
Mission Blue is proud to partner with Great Barrier Reef Legacy! By: Jenna Rumney Great Barrier Reef Legacy (GBR Legacy) aims to change the way the Great Barrier Reef is understood and protected by...
View ArticleGlimmers of Hope from an Ancient World
by Courtney Mattison Undulating in the clear cerulean water, long blades of Posidonia oceanica seagrass glittered green through the window of my scuba mask. As I sank among them, I felt as if I could...
View ArticleMission Blue Launches First Arctic Expedition to the Svalbard Archipelago...
Rachel Krasna Imagine journeying all the way to the Arctic only to find nothing, just sheer barren cold desert leading into the open blue. That scenario is not so far fetched lately, as scientists...
View ArticleStories From the Ice
By Courtney Mattison for Mission Blue If you’ve never experienced an iceberg before, you might assume that they are silent, bobbing solitarily in the ocean. In reality icebergs can be loud, crackling...
View ArticleSpitsbergen Beneath the Surface
By Courtney Mattison for Mission Blue Imagine rolling backwards off an inflatable boat into icy Arctic waters… on purpose. Enveloped in protective gear, you stay mostly dry as the cold sinks into your...
View ArticlePolar Bears of Svalbard
By Courtney Mattison for Mission Blue For those who have observed polar bears in the wild, the experiences they recall often sound reverential and daring. The world’s largest land predator, polar bears...
View ArticleA Blue New Deal for a Blue Marble Planet
By David Helvarg Sylvia Earle likes to say ‘No Blue, No Green’ in explaining the role of the ocean as the incubator and cradle of life on earth, also the driver of climate, weather and rain, the...
View ArticleSpain’s Canary Islands Declared a Hope Spot Amid Global Climate Change...
TENERIFE-LA GOMERA, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN (December 11th, 2019) – (Spanish Translation Appears Below) The brilliant blue waters between the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Gomera have been called the...
View ArticleHope Spot Announcement Leads to Marine Protection for the Great Fringing Reef...
Featured image: Renata Romeo New MPA to protect more than 2000km of coral reef along Egypt’s Red Sea Coastline. SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT – Yasmine Fouad, The Egyptian Minister of the Environment, has...
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