Mission blue

Should you stop eating fish?

We asked legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle for her menu advice. Oceanographer (and TED Prize winner) Sylvia Earle (TED Talk: My wish: Protect our oceans) has spent half a cen...

Beautiful and sad GIFs that show what’s happening to the ocean

Scientist Sylvia Earle (TED Talk: My wish: Protect our oceans) has spent the past five decades exploring the seas. During that time, she’s witnessed a steep decline in ocean wil...

An encounter with poachers in the Bahamas

Thousands of lobster tails are legally imported into the U.S. from the Dominican Republic each year — although no commercially viable stocks of spiny lobster exist in Dominican ...