OceanCare Blog
MAKE WHALES FEEL HOME!
One might expect you as a guest to have some manner and behave in a respectful and polite way towards your host who wants you to feel welcome. But imagine a guest turn your home into a garbage bin, dump waste, trawl nets, drive lorries straight through your living...
Make every beach visit an adventure and help clean up our act!
Guestblog by Michael Stachowitsch, PhD., Author of "The Beachcomber's Guide to Marine Debris" What can we know, what must we do, what can we hope for? These three philosophical questions are directly relevant to the status of the oceans. To the first question: we know...
Environmental multilateralism at risk – where do we go from here?
21.03.2019, Nairobi, Kenya As the world’s largest decision-making body on the Environment, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is tasked with finding solutions to global environmental problems. From the 11th to 15th of March 2019 delegates, civil society...
The fourth United Nations Environment Assembly UNEA-4: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Consumption and Production
Friday, March 15th, last day of UNEA4 It was a great opportunity to meet with people from all around the world to debate on the same issues, share ideas and challenges on issues like plastics, ecosystem management, and green business. With a delegation of 3 members...
Canada: Low plankton levels boost call for lowering noise levels
Canada: Low plankton levels boost call for lowering noise levels Plankton – small animals, algae, and microorganisms floating in the ocean – are the basis of the marine food web and thus of marine wildlife from corals to large whales. Hence, we should be more than...
The Candle of Joy
Humans by nature like to see things in extremes. We polarize things in order to better understand our place; to understand what is right and wrong, good and bad, and where everything belongs. We like to box things up so that we can better comprehend them. Light and...
The Candle of Love
What makes you tick? What gets you up in the morning? What is the thing that forces you to face the day even when the skies are covered in darkness, and it seems like there’s no point to anything? Is it the new iPhone you got for Christmas? Is it a new episode of...
The Candle of Peace
Christmas is truly on its way, even for those who were glaring at those of us who had our Christmas trees up since Thanksgiving. With the festive period now in full swing, it seems everyone is put in a better mood. I mean how can a reindeer and hot chocolate with mini...
The Candle of Hope
It seems Halloween and Thanksgiving have barely passed and already the smell of evergreen trees and roasting maroni are starting to tickle our frosty noses as we wander down the streets, already aglow with twinkling lights and jolly bearded men clad in red jumpsuits....
Humpback Whales fall into silence when disturbed by ship noise, new study reveals
A team of Japanese researchers involving the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association and the Hokkaido University just released findings of a study which looked into the reactions of singing male humpback whales to a passenger-cargo vessel passing by in a remote region...