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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 — […]

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 — […]

Ocean industries are often even more polluting than their terrestrial counterparts. By David Helvarg and Jason Scorse In 2008 the United Nations designated June 8 as World Oceans Day, “a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean.” Since then, it’s had about as much to do with the ecological economic and human rights disasters affecting our seas as […]