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Whale Atlas: A Mariners Guide to Whale Safer Shipping

June 27, 2025

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A blue whale’s tail splashes water as it dives into the ocean, with distant land visible on the horizon.
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Celebrating Ten Years of Protecting Blue Whales & Blue Skies in California

February 19, 2025

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$2 million to fund Supplemental Environmental Project aimed at reducing emissions from marine vessels

January 25, 2025

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A humpback whale swims underwater, its fin extended, against a deep blue ocean background.

Whale Atlas: A Mariners Guide to Whale Safer Shipping

Danielle Alvarez writes about a first-of-its-kind online map portal that will showcase digitized whale conservation zones relevant to maritime shipping activities, including a zone’s designation and parameters, which marine species it protects, seasonality, and the specifics of the measures.
27 Jun 2025
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Reducing Air Pollution, Reducing Noise Pollution, Reducing Whale Ship Strikes
A blue whale’s tail splashes water as it dives into the ocean, with distant land visible on the horizon.

Celebrating Ten Years of Protecting Blue Whales & Blue Skies in California

Here in California, we live adjacent to a marine biodiversity hotspot, with endangered whales stopping to feed for an extended season during their annual migrations up and down the Pacific Coast. We also live in one of the epicenters of international trade.
19 Feb 2025
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A large container ship on a partly cloudy day with two whale spouts closeby.

$2 million to fund Supplemental Environmental Project aimed at reducing emissions from marine vessels

As ocean-going vessels contribute a large portion of the smog-forming NOx emissions affecting coastal California communities, the program is a critical component of partner air district's air pollution emissions reduction strategies given vessels are outside local air district regulatory authority. This partnership is a great example of the amazing environmental benefits that are possible if we work together. Photo Credit: Ralph A. Clevenger
25 Jan 2025
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The inside of a citrus processing facility where rows of lemons are being moved along conveyor belts.

Reflecting on Lemons, Silver Linings, and Going Out on Limbs

The silver lining of being a small non-profit, tackling a lesser known environmental problem (supply chain impacts on biodiversity and coastal community health is not, yet, a mainstream issue)– is that you get to meet some for-profit gems bold enough to try something that's relatively, really new.
13 Sep 2024
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Reducing Noise Pollution
Two researchers stand smiling on the deck of a research vessel holding equipment used to monitor the ocean soundscape.

Supporting Acoustic Research to Improve Monitoring and Conservation

We stand to learn a lot by listening in on the ocean, and we can better paint a picture of how humans are impacting the ocean soundscape.
18 Jun 2024
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