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By Brett Garling, Mission Blue In a fantastic event last night at the Seattle Aquarium, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle and Greenpeace’s Phil Radford announced the Bering Sea Canyons as the official 19th Hope Spot. The event attracted a large turnout and impassioned speeches in defense of the new Hope Spot. Moreover, a bonafide airship…
By Mera McGrew of Mission Blue In full scuba gear, we roll off a small open, outboard-powered boat into the clear water. We’re in a shallow bay near the southern tip of Baja California, in the middle of the Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park. Here, the Sea of Cortez blends with the Pacific Ocean. Looking…
By Mera McGrew of Mission Blue Mention Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and images of remoteness, vast ice sheets, and large glaciers immediately come to mind. But despite the area’s harsh wind and severe cold, the Antarctic is bursting with marine life. Diving into the Antarctic’s cold ocean, the intrepid explorer will witness bright-colored…
Winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on July 24, 2012 
The winners of the annual Google Science Fair have been announced, and National Geographic was there to help judge and provide awards for these brilliant young innovators.
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In case you missed it, we hung out with Sylvia Earle and fellow Aquanauts at Aquarius Reef Base. Enjoy!
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“Industrial fishing has never been sustainable, it’s always been using the capital, not the interest,” Daniel Pauly, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Centre, told a rapt audience at the Aspen Environment Forum 2012 in late June. Pauly explained that since the advent of modern industrial fishing, spurred by such inventions…
“I’ve been to a lot of international conferences, in Nagoya, Durban, and so on, but Rio [Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development] was bigger than any I’ve ever seen,” Matthew Shirts, the editor of the Brazilian edition of National Geographic, told a large audience at the Aspen Environment Forum this past weekend in…
This Wednesday, after months of innovative research and intense anticipation, the 15 global finalist projects for the 2012 Google Science Fair will be announced, and NG Emerging Explorer Albert Lin will be doing the honors. You can watch it happen live during a Google+ Hangout at 9:00am EDT (2:00pm UT). Just follow the Google Science…
Posted by sylvia earle goes deep Driver training in a 1 person sub. My instructor was ocean scientist Dr. Sylvia Earle. I did this story several years ago but was reminded of the experience when James Cameron and National Geographic teamed up this week to dive the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on the planet. We talk…
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What an amazing day, I’m full of hope for Coiba and the rest of Panama’s seas! We met today at the incredible home of Jean Pigozzi,high on the top of his Simca Island, for a lunch with the Minister. His daughter joined him on the trip in the Presidential helicopter, which landed right at Jean’s…
The scuba diving has been challenging, I’ve found it hard to take any photos in the low visibility and strong current, part of what makes this area productive. Sylvia, Kip and I are all taking photos, making us less than ideal buddies, so we go with our dive master Kevan, and Biff. They keep an…
This morning the divers explored the shallower parts of the marine park, we found white tip reef sharks, moray eels, several varieties of reef fish, puffers, triggerfish, parrot fish, moorish idols, hawkfish, blennies and many more. We also spotted several lobsters which Sylvia noted was a good sign of less human pressure. But the star…
It’s almost impossible to plan an trip like this. Factors of weather, mechanics, and physical logistics are the enemy of scheduling. Today we are about two hours behind on scuba diving, and plans for a sub interview with Hector Guzman from STRI are scrapped due to rough seas, allowing me some unscheduled time to write.…
With the conclusion of Sylvia Earle’s fifth and final day at Isla Coiba Marine Park, the expedition team wraps up their adventure with a renewed sense of optimism for the future of the park and all of its marine inhabitants.
Frog fish, schooling jacks, and other strange and beautiful creatures: a day of photos from Coiba’s Marine Park. Sylvia Earle and Jenifer Austin Foulkes’s fourth day of diving produces more new data for the advancement of science and conservation.
Sylvia Earle and Jenifer Austin Foulkes take to the water for a third day in an unforgettable experience Jenifer compares to “discovering a new planet”.
The adventure continues with the second installment of Sylvia Earle’s visit to Isla Coiba Marine Park where she performed some of the first ever explorations of Hannibal bank in a DeepSea sub.
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Sylvia Earle made a recent visit to the Isla Coiba Marine Park to scope out the local biodiversity. Check out some snippets from Jenifer Austin Foulkes blog as she accompanies Sylvia to the coastal waters of Panama.
“People often pit the economy against the environment, making us choose between one or the other, but that’s a futile dichotomy,“ says NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco. Discover how leaders from both areas at the World Oceans Summit are working to improve that relationship.
The annual Google Science Fair opens today, calling anyone and everyone 13 to 18 years old to push the edges of our knowledge and help pave the way to the future, and National Geographic Explorers Albert Lin, Sylvia Earle, and T.H. Culhane are among the judges.
Swan Island Expedition: Day 5
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on July 22, 2011 
Recollections of older fishers of the local abundance of sharks in the past drives the team to search for top predators today. What they find is both encouraging and a reminder of the desperate state of much of the ocean.
Swan Island Expedition: Day 4
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on July 20, 2011 
Sylvia Earle Reports from the field: “Today I was able to find some patches of coral that looked really healthy, and that’s cause for hope, because if there are some that are in reasonably good condition, it means that restoration could follow…”
Swan Island Expedition: Day 3
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on July 20, 2011 
Following the sound of the ocean, we emerged from our pseudo-jungle onto the beach and were greeted by a sight we had not expected–marine debris.
