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From deep-sea mining to clashes over migrants, it’s shaping up to be a year of blue issues By David Helvarg | Jan 6 2022 The ocean is in trouble, and people know it. The last major survey on public attitudes, conducted two years ago, found 73 percent of Americans thought the ocean’s condition had worsened in the previous […]

BY JASON SCORSE, DAVID HELVARG JANUARY 4, 2022 Coastal communities, from those of Native Alaskans to condo residents in south Florida, are on the frontlines for rising sea level impacts. Our two organizations, Blue Frontier and the Center for the Blue Economy, were among the first, in 2019, to highlight how our public seas must play a central role […]

In the New Year, we must rays awareness, seas the moment and sand together for cod and country and from sea to shining sea. Our oceans are in trouble and this holiday sea/sun is not a time to be shellfish about how we respond. Abalone you might say but I still believe giving beach receiving. It’s […]

Dive in with Blue Frontier’s Executive Director David Helvarg to learn why he founded the organization. For two decades Blue Frontier has worked to bring the economic, environmental, recreational, and spiritual benefits of healthy and abundant seas to the public. We’ve done this through books, articles, videos and media trainings, a decade of Ocean Awards, […]

Last year, California’s massive wildfires were impossible to ignore. Four million acres burned. People and animals died, homes were lost, power faltered for days at a time, air quality deteriorated, the sky over San Francisco turned orange. And yet as massive a challenge as wildfire presents — especially as we face another drought year — […]