But our ocean’s health is in danger. How can the blue economy help restore and protect this vital planetary resource? Ahead of the 2022 UN Ocean Conference this June, we spoke with UN DESA’s ...

Why, of all the colors out there, are our oceans blue? The answer lies in the physics of visible light waves, specifically, how the ocean absorbs and reflects different colors of light.

The ducks also tell us that we are connected to everywhere in the Big Blue ocean, and that a piece of plastic dropped at the coast might well end up thousands of miles away in the most remote ...

Formation of marine heat waves – depicted here as light blue patch – off the coast of California, as described above. Figure by Sky Smith. When have the most recent marine heat wave events occurred ...

Ocean-related activities generated €624 billion in revenue and provided jobs for 3.6 million people in the European Union in 2021. This part of the economy is known as the “blue economy ...