Simon Bernard, Plastic Odyssey CEO, used to be a merchant Navy officer, sailing from Morocco to Senegal. In this former life he joined an expedition working on low-tech solutions to turn seawater into fresh water and to grow food so people in nearby coastal communities would have resources to helpContinue Reading
HONOLULU — A crew returned from the northernmost islands in the Hawaiian archipelago this week with a boatload of marine plastic and abandoned fishing nets that threaten to entangle endangered Hawaiian monk seals and other animals on the uninhabited beaches stretching more than 1,300 miles north of Honolulu. The cleanupContinue Reading
The Hawaiian archipelago, a collection of islands, atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, is home to several dazzling and exotic creatures who are usually undisturbed in their habitats and yet can’t escape the pollution. A crew recently journeyed to clean the islands and returned thisContinue Reading
HONOLULU — A crew returned from the northernmost islands in the Hawaiian archipelago this week with a boatload of marine plastic and abandoned fishing nets that threaten to entangle endangered Hawaiian monk seals and other animals on the uninhabited beaches stretching more than 1,300 miles north of Honolulu. The cleanupContinue Reading
“Papahanaumokuakea is one of the most amazing landscapes on Earth, central to many Native Hawaiian narratives — a place where nature and culture are one,” said Athline Clark, NOAA’s superintendent for the marine monument. “It sustains the most vulnerable Hawaiian wildlife species, and nearly all of its habitat is usedContinue Reading
