 | Earth Focus Episode 13: 2009 Environmental Film Festival This episode explores the 2009 Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C., featuring films on ocean acidification and blast fishing. Click here to watch. |
 | Development may destroy the sacred culture of Altai, Siberia. Scientists call for a bailout for the world's oceans and the Republic of the Maldives sets plans to survive in the face of rising sea levels. Watch here. |
 | Watch this investigative report by Ecologist TV on the cost of fish farming in Peru; and an innovative program by the Coral Reef Alliance helps sustainably manage coral reefs in Fiji. Click here to watch online. |
 | This episode features new legislation affecting sharks, youth initiatives to address climate change in the U.S. and how young rappers are making "green" the new cool in China. Click here to watch. |
 | This episode provides a special look into Studio of the Sea, a group of biologists equipped with camera equipment that are studying the underwater effects of global warming on coral reefs in Phoenix Island. |
 | Earth Focus Interview: Andrew Sharpless Andrew Sharpless, CEO of the ocean advocacy group, Oceana, speaks with correspondent Miles Benson. Oceana works to promote economic policies and concrete change in its fight for marine preservation. |
 | Earth Focus Interview: Charles Clover In this Earth Focus interview, host Miles Benson talks with Charles Clover, author of "The End of the Line," who exposes the destructive effects of industrialized fishing on the ocean's ecosystem. Watch here. |
| In this first episode of the Oceans 8 series, adventurers reach one of the loneliest spots on Earth, where the Pacific and the Bering Sea collide. |
 | Adventurers travel to the Tuamotus, a string of 78 coral reef atolls nicknamed the "Dangerous Archipelago" due to the shipwrecks that occur there. |
 | Ride along on a rustic - and rusting - Polynesian cargo boat as it makes deliveries to 21 of the most isolated coral reef atolls in the heart of the South Pacific. |
 | South America's Altiplano, the mountainous desert region crossing the borders of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, is one of the driest places on Earth.
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 | Part 2 of the Oceans 8 Altiplano adventure begins on the largest lake in northern Argentina - Lago Vilama - which surprisingly is just a few inches deep. |
 | Explore parts of the Gabon accessible only by water, circumnavigating Gabon's jewel of a national park, Loango for an eye opening adventure. |
 | The Croatian coast is home to one of the largest archipelagos in the Mediterranean, where fisherman are worried about the diminishing numbers of fish. |
 | In the final episode of Oceans 8 the team visits the remote Australian island of Tasmania, and meets fisherman, historians, sailors and aboriginals.
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ACTIVATE YOURSELF!Learn more about what you can do from these organizations who are dedicated to preserve the world's oceans and marine life.
Friends of Animals Sea Shephard Conservation Society |
Oceans and Law of the Sea (UN) UNEP Global Programme of Action for Friends of the Earth Blue Water Network Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society |
Dates to Remember
November 23-27, 2009 - The East Asian Seas Congress 2009 (Manila, Philippines)
June 8, 2010 - World Ocean Day 2010's World Ocean Day theme, acknowledged by the UN, is "One Ocean, One Climate, One Future". Learn more from The World Ocean Project. And click here to find ocean events in your area.
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Do you love seafood but worry about contributing to overfishing and the harm being done to the ocean's ecosystem? Check out this list of ocean-friendly seafood recipes courtesy of the Natural Resources Defence Council!
By choosing to buy fish that are in healthy supply, we can give dwindling fish populations a chance to recover, while keeping fishermen at work. Click here to browse some tasty recipes from NRDC's home cooks and a few of their chef friends featuring sustainable seafood (fish that's abundant, caught or raised in an environmentally friendly manner, and low in mercury), for example:
See all NRDC Sustainable Seafood Recipes (PDF)
