How To Protect The Ocean
de Andrew Lewin
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The ocean's problems are big. You're allowed to start small.
How to Protect the Ocean is the podcast for anyone who cares about the ocean and wants to do something about it. Each episode, marine biologist and science communicator Andrew Lewin breaks down the latest ocean science and conservation news, shares stories of people and communities making real change, and gives you one simple action you can take.
Climate change, plastic pollution, overfishing, coastal development: the news can feel overwhelming. This show helps you turn that worry into action, one episode at a time.
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- Silence Is Taking a Side: Why Scientists Belong on the Campaign Trail · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2065Every scientist makes advocacy choices every day, whether they admit it or not. The questions you ask, the communities you engage, the issues you spend your time on, and the…
- What's New and What's Next in Ocean Science Communication · 38 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2064Ocean science only protects the ocean when people outside the lab hear it. Dr. David Shiffman, interdisciplinary marine conservation biologist and author of Why Sharks Matter…
- Our Ocean to Save: Emily Cunningham on Protecting Our Greatest Climate Ally · 50 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2063Ask most people what the lungs of the planet are, and they'll say forests. Marine biologist Emily Cunningham would point you to phytoplankton: tiny drifting algae that produce…
- Small Grants, Big Impact: How Sea-Changers Funds Community Ocean Action · 51 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2062Have you ever had an idea for your community, like a beach cleanup, a water fountain, or a patch of shoreline that needs some love, and thought, "If I just had a little money, I…
- From Small Towns to a Global Treaty · 17 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2061"We'll never see that in our lifetime." You've probably heard it about the ocean. Andrew has heard it plenty, and admits he's said it too. For years it was the standard answer…
- The Straw Backlash: Why Guilt Doesn't Work · 23 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2060"You can't care about plastic. Your phone is made of plastic." If you've ever heard that, you know what it's for. It's designed to make you feel like a hypocrite, so you give up…
- The Beach That Doesn't Need Cleaning Anymore · 13 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2059Picture a beach cleanup. Two hours of hauling bottles, wrappers and foam off the sand. Now picture the same beach ten years later, where you walk the whole length and come home…
- Too Enthusiastic? How to Find Your Place in Ocean Action · 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2058Do you ever feel disconnected from ocean action? You sign the petition, you donate, you share the post, and you still don't feel like you're doing the work. Andrew knows the…
- Come for the Impact, Stay for the People: Inside Surfrider Canada · 50 min · Temporada 1Do you ever feel like ocean action is happening somewhere else? You sign the petition, maybe donate, but you're not really part of the work. Lilly Woodbury knows that feeling…
- One Promise: How a Postcard Changed Behaviour for a Year · 13 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2056Picture a kid at an aquarium in Durban, standing in front of the penguins with a pen and a postcard. She writes one sentence, a promise to change one habit for the ocean, and…
- Why Saying "Fishing Is Bad" Backfires · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2055Picture a woman on a beach before sunrise, sorting the night's catch to feed her kids. Now picture a campaign poster that says "Stop eating fish." That poster just reached her…
- The Reef That Built Itself Back: Coral Recovery After Bleaching · 16 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2054In 2023, a marine heat wave settled over Palmyra Atoll, a remote ring of coral islands about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, and stayed for more than half a year. Some of the reef's…
- Why Nobody Can Name a Marine Protected Area · 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2053Quick test: name one marine protected area in your country. If you came up blank, you're in good company. When an aquarium in Durban, South Africa surveyed its visitors, fewer…
- Can You Name One Marine Protected Area? Dr. Judy Mann-Lang on MPA Day · 57 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2052Most people can't name a single marine protected area in their own country. Dr. Judy Mann-Lang found that out the hard way when she asked aquarium visitors to name one and they…
- What the Sustainable Seafood Label Can't See · 11 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2051You bought the fish with the green check mark. Investigators with The Outlaw Ocean Project then checked the supply chains behind hundreds of seafood companies making…
- Ships Without License Plates: The Dark Fleet Behind Fishmeal · 15 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2050In a single day in March 2024, Gambian navy officers arrested eight industrial trawlers. Seven were fishing in waters reserved for local canoes, four were using illegal nets, and…
- Whose Dinner Becomes Fish Feed? · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2049On a May morning in 2017, the people of Gunjur in The Gambia woke to find their lagoon had turned red, with dead fish on the surface. Investigators traced the pollution to a…
- The Fish That Feed Your Fish: What Farmed Salmon Really Eat · 12 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2048The family behind the world's largest salmon farming company built a global industry. Now one of its members is asking how it can be sustainable to grind up fish from poorer…
- What Your Farmed Salmon Ate: Inside a Five-Year Fishmeal Investigation · 1 h 6 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2047More than half the seafood eaten on Earth now comes from fish farms, and most of those farmed fish are raised on fishmeal made from wild-caught fish. Maya Martin, deputy editor…
- How to Read the Seafood Counter Like a Marine Biologist · 13 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2046Picture a big sign over the seafood counter promising sustainable fishing, with a fish every independent guide says to avoid sitting on ice right below it. In most countries…
- Is Bottom Trawling Always Bad? It Depends Where · 15 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2045Off the south coast of England, about 100 kilometres out, sits Haig Fras, a granite reef covered in jewel anemones and cup corals. For years it was protected on paper, yet heavy…
- The Trapdoor That Saves Sea Turtles From Shrimp Nets · 17 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2044A Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the most endangered sea turtle on Earth, gets swept into a shrimp trawl. It hits a metal grid, slides out through a flap in the net, and swims away…
- The Cod Came Back: What a Fishery Collapse Teaches Us About Overfishing · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2043Five centuries ago, explorers off Newfoundland described cod so plentiful that a weighted basket lowered into the sea came back full. By July 2, 1992, so few remained that Canada…
- How to Choose Sustainable Seafood · 1 h 6 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2042You want to eat seafood the right way. Then you hit the seafood counter and face a wall of labels, a sign promising "sustainable practices," and an employee who has no idea where…
- Slow Down for Whales: How Global Shipping Learned to Share the Ocean · 11 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2041Blue whales can't dodge ships. When scientists tracked blue whales alongside cargo ships off Southern California, the whales responded in just over half the encounters, and every…
- When Whale Food Moves: Climate Change, Crab Traps, and Pop-Up Gear · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2040In 2014, a patch of unusually warm water nicknamed "the blob" settled off the west coast of North America. The cold, food-rich water that normally stretches far offshore shrank…
- The Whale Heart That Beats Twice a Minute · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2039Fill your hands with cold water, hold your breath, and press your face in. Your heart slows within seconds. That reflex lives in every whale in the ocean too, and in a blue whale…
- The Biggest Mouthful: How Blue Whales Eat and Why Krill Matters · 11 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2038A blue whale can swallow a volume of water bigger than its own body in a single gulp. That move, called lunge feeding, is one of the most extreme feats in the animal kingdom, and…
- Whales Are Sprinters: What a Blue Whale's Heart Does When It Lunge Feeds · 51 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2037What happens to the heart of the largest animal on Earth when it charges into a swarm of krill? Dr. Ashley Blawas, a postdoctoral scholar in Jeremy Goldbogen's lab at Stanford's…
- The Pollution That Breeds: How the Great Lakes Stopped Invaders · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2036In 1988, someone found a striped mussel the size of a fingernail in Lake St. Clair. Within a few years, zebra mussels coated pipes, boats, and the bottom of the Great Lakes, and…
- How Beach Cleanup Data Helped Canada Ban Plastic · 15 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2035You rinse the yogurt tub, check the number on the bottom, and drop it in the blue bin. In Canada, only about 9% of plastic waste actually gets recycled, and the global rate is…
- What Happens to Fish When Our Pills Reach the Water? · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2034In 2001, government scientists started adding a tiny amount of the synthetic estrogen found in birth control pills to a remote lake in northwestern Ontario, at levels already…
- How Did Humpback Whales End Up in New York Harbour? · 16 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2033This summer, people are boarding whale watching boats and seeing humpbacks feeding in sight of the Manhattan skyline. Fifty years ago, that same water was an open sewer, and…
- Plastic Is Still the Ocean's #1 Villain, with Dr. Judith Weis · 40 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2028Plastic keeps getting made, it never goes away, and almost none of it gets recycled. Dr. Judith Weis, Professor Emerita at Rutgers University Newark and Andrew's very first guest…
- You Left a Public Comment. Now What? · 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2031All week, Andrew has asked listeners to comment on and show up for California's marine protected area review. Today he answers the question that comes after: once the meeting…
- Does Your Public Comment Count? Two Ocean Wins Show How · 15 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2030Earlier this year, about 65,000 people submitted comments on a federal deep-sea mining proposal near the Northern Mariana Islands, most of them opposed. The area under…
- The Blob Hit California's Kelp. Protected Kelp Came Back Faster. · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2029In 2014, just two years after California finished its statewide network of marine protected areas, a marine heatwave known as The Blob settled over the Pacific coast and stayed…
- 300 People, 50 Tribes, One Meeting: How California Built Its Marine Protected Areas · 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2028In 1999, California passed a law ordering the state to fix its patchwork of ocean parks. For two years, almost nothing happened, and two attempts to get the process moving both…
- California Votes on 15 MPA Changes in October. Who Got a Say? · 59 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2027California has a network of 124 marine protected areas, and in October the state's Fish and Game Commission takes up 15 proposals that could change it. The proposals came out of…
- Millimeters That Matter: The Sea Level Rise Threshold Coastal Wetlands Can't Survive · 11 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2025Sea level rise. It's a phrase everyone's supposed to be afraid of, and almost nobody can picture. A couple of millimeters a year sounds too small to matter, until you find out…
- What the Coast Is Worth: How a Dollar Number Is Already Funding Its Protection · 17 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2026A boat's wake looks harmless right up until you watch it happen over and over. Every wake a boat throws off chips away at a shoreline that took centuries to build, and it happens…
- Red Tide, Decoded: Why It Isn't Random, and How to Track It · 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2024No smell. No warning. Just a beach full of people who start coughing at the same time, grab their towels, and leave. That's red tide, and it feels completely random until you…
- Nature's Kidneys: How Coastal Wetlands Stop Ocean Pollution · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2023Green water. A smell that won't go away. Sometimes, dead fish washing up on shore. That's what too much nitrogen does to a coastline, and it's easy to hear stories like this and…
- Blue Nitrogen: The Nutrient Story Coastal Wetlands Have Been Hiding · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2023Every time this podcast talks about coastal wetlands, the conversation goes straight to carbon. Marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and…
- Who Pays for Plastic? Inside the Law Quietly Shifting the Bill to Producers · 17 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2022For decades, the honest answer to "who pays to deal with plastic packaging once it leaves the shelf" was taxpayers, quietly, through municipal budgets that funded garbage trucks…
- Inside Ocean Conservancy's Fight to Make Washing Machine Filters the Law · 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2021Ocean Conservancy's "Not Safe for Wash" campaign is built around a simple premise: the fix for washing machine microfiber pollution already exists, so the fight isn't about…
- Your Washing Machine Sheds Up to 18 Million Microfibers a Load · 13 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2020Every wash cycle sheds plastic. Last Monday, Andrew talked with Dr. Anja Brandon of Ocean Conservancy about microfiber pollution, and one question from that conversation stuck…
- Can Bacteria Actually Eat Plastic? · 16 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2019Bacteria that eat plastic sounds like the fix everyone's been waiting for, and Andrew gets sent videos about it constantly. So on this solo episode, following Monday's interview…
- The 90 Percent Fix Hiding in Your Laundry Room · 1 h 6 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 1991Every time you run a load of laundry, your washing machine sheds plastic. Not metaphorically: synthetic clothing made from polyester, nylon, and rayon releases microfibers with…
- A New PBS Documentary Wants You to Care About Coral. Meet the Man Behind It. · 51 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 2017A new documentary called Descent – Into the Blue starts airing on public television stations nationwide on September 1, 2026. It's narrated by Peter Coyote, directed by Rory…
