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Sep 29, 2026 · 16:19
This 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…
Sep 28, 2026 · 40:12
Plastic 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…
Sep 25, 2026 · 13:52
All 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…
Sep 25, 2026 · 15:12
Earlier 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…
Sep 23, 2026 · 10:16
In 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…
Sep 22, 2026 · 9:42
In 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…
Sep 21, 2026 · 59:23
California 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…
Sep 17, 2026 · 10:45
Sea 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…
Sep 17, 2026 · 17:10
A 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…
Sep 15, 2026 · 13:37
No 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…
Sep 15, 2026 · 19:49
Green 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…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:02:37
Every 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…
Sep 11, 2026 · 17:06
For 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…
Sep 10, 2026 · 13:46
Ocean 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…
Sep 9, 2026 · 13:09
Every 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…
Sep 8, 2026 · 15:40
Bacteria 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…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:06:44
Every 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…
Sep 4, 2026 · 50:45
A 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…
Sep 3, 2026 · 17:16
Most coral restoration groups check on a sample of what they've planted, often around 20 to 30 percent, and report that sample as if it represents everything in the water. I.CARE…
Sep 2, 2026 · 15:48
Coral nurseries need constant maintenance, and that maintenance is expensive and relentless. When Andrew talked to Mike Goldberg, co-founder of I.CARE, his answer wasn't to hire…
Sep 1, 2026 · 14:13
Mike Goldberg had over 10,000 dives and decades running a dive shop in the Florida Keys, enough time to have seen the reefs at their pristine best. Then came a coral bleaching…
Aug 31, 2026 · 35:34
This year, most of the coral on the planet went through heat stress severe enough to bleach it. That's not a rounding error: 84 percent of the world's reef area, across the…
Aug 28, 2026 · 1:04:53
Holly Koehler has spent almost thirty years in rooms most people never think about: windowless UN offices in New York, the FAO in Rome, and what she calls "oftentimes very boring…
Aug 27, 2026 · 13:59
Between a fishing vessel out on the water and a can of tuna in your grocery cart, there is a complex, little-understood system working to verify whether you should trust what is…
Aug 26, 2026 · 17:04
There's a video online of a room full of exhausted diplomats breaking into applause after nearly 20 years of work. One woman brings down the gavel and says, "the ship has reached…
Aug 25, 2026 · 13:52
Somewhere on the ocean floor right now, a coral colony has been growing since before the Great Pyramid of Giza was finished. One deep-water black coral off the coast of Hawaii…
Aug 24, 2026 · 15:54
A grad student faces a simple choice: write another term paper, or take a summer internship. She takes the internship, gets assigned to sea turtles, and thirty years later she is…
Aug 21, 2026 · 1:23:28
Deep sea mining is no longer theoretical. In this episode, Andrew sits down with Matthew Gianni, co-founder and Political and Policy Advisor of the Deep Sea Conservation…
Aug 20, 2026 · 17:09
In September 2021, Time magazine profiled Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company (TMC), and his push to mine the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a stretch of international…
Aug 19, 2026 · 22:24
Why would someone who watched one deep-sea mining company collapse go back and try it again? That's the question at the center of this episode, and it's not hypothetical. It…
Aug 18, 2026 · 16:16
Seamounts are underwater mountains that rise at least 1,000 meters from the seafloor without breaking the surface, and they punch far above their weight biologically. Topographic…
Aug 17, 2026 · 23:36
Before he ever sat across a table from UN delegates, Matthew Gianni spent 10 years working as a commercial fisherman up and down both US coasts. Gillnetting for Spanish and king…
Aug 14, 2026 · 1:09:32
Science communication has a blind spot: it keeps putting the same faces in front of the microphone. In this episode, Andrew talks with Amy Weldon, host and executive producer of…
Aug 13, 2026 · 22:22
YouTube has quietly become one of the best platforms for ocean science communication, and in this episode Andrew breaks down exactly why. Fresh off yesterday's 2,000-episode…
Aug 12, 2026 · 28:36
Today marks episode 2000 of How to Protect the Ocean, and Andrew is taking a break from the usual format to look back at how this show came to be. From an accidental start in…
Aug 11, 2026 · 16:59
Podcasting has been part of Andrew Lewin's life for 11 years, and in this episode he explains why he thinks more people working in ocean science and conservation should be doing…
Aug 10, 2026 · 21:37
This week on the How to Protect the Ocean podcast, Andrew kicks off a science communication series exploring how ocean advocates can spread awareness across every major content…
Aug 7, 2026 · 57:55
Electric boating is having its Tesla moment, and few people understand that shift better than Alexandre Mongeon, CEO and co-founder of Vision Marine Technologies. Andrew sits…
Aug 6, 2026 · 12:31
Not every ocean conservation win comes from a nonprofit or a government program. In this episode, Andrew breaks down three for-profit companies that are cleaning up the ocean,…
Aug 5, 2026 · 12:36
4ocean has removed more than 50 million pounds of plastic and trash from the world's oceans, rivers, and coastlines. That milestone did not come from a government program or a…
Aug 4, 2026 · 10:36
The boat rental market is bigger than most people realize, and it's growing fast. In this episode, Andrew shares a personal story about his dad, boats, and why he's spent the…
Aug 3, 2026 · 11:08
Global shipping moves roughly 80 to 90% of the world's trade, and it comes with a real climate cost: the industry is responsible for a little over 2% of global CO2 emissions. On…
Jul 31, 2026 · 54:12
Hollywood might not be the first industry you think of when it comes to protecting the planet, but film and TV production has been quietly transforming how it operates behind the…
Jul 30, 2026 · 10:02
Businesses love to say they are sustainable. Andrew breaks down why that word is no longer enough on its own. A new EU consumer protection regulation now requires companies to…
Jul 29, 2026 · 11:39
Sustainability conversations usually center on ecosystems, emissions targets, and corporate pledges, but this episode makes the case that people belong at the center of that…
Jul 28, 2026 · 16:26
Sustainability isn't just good PR; it's good business math. In this episode, Andrew breaks down why companies are shifting toward circular business models, using Philips Lighting…
Jul 27, 2026 · 14:54
Sustainability anxiety is real. Watching wildfires spread, sea levels rise, and ice melt while governments drag their feet on climate policy can leave anyone feeling stuck.…
Jul 24, 2026 · 22:19
Conferences can feel intimidating, expensive, and overwhelming, especially if networking doesn't come naturally to you. In this episode, Andrew shares what more than a decade of…
Jul 23, 2026 · 18:53
Marineland Canada is officially closing, and this week the park began moving its remaining beluga whales out of Niagara Falls. Six belugas were flown out on a single flight this…
Jul 22, 2026 · 20:31
The US government is moving toward the world's first commercial deep-sea mining lease sale, and it's happening in federal waters off American Samoa. In this episode, Andrew…
Jul 21, 2026 · 16:05
A viral TikTok about fish aggregation devices drifting into marine protected areas got Andrew thinking about a topic he hasn't covered in a while: ghost nets. In this episode, he…
Jul 20, 2026 · 24:32
For a week straight, Andrew watched his own sky turn orange outside Toronto as smoke from nearly 900 wildfires burning across Canada, most of them following the boreal forest…
Jul 17, 2026 · 11:01
If you've ever felt a hard strike, fought a fish, and reeled up nothing but a head, you already know what shark depredation feels like. In this episode, Andrew breaks down a new…
Jul 16, 2026 · 12:51
A thousand meters down off the coast of Brazil, a deep-sea robot caught something almost no one has ever filmed alive: a giant open ocean octopus calmly eating a jellyfish. That…
Jul 15, 2026 · 13:34
In 1978, an Exxon scientist asked a question in capital letters: were the oceans dissolving coral reefs? By 1982, Exxon's own scientists had the answer, in writing. So did Shell…
Jul 14, 2026 · 11:29
For more than a decade, almost 2,000 volunteers have walked California's beaches with clipboards, counting every swimmer, surfer, angler, and boat they see. It sounds simple,…
Jul 13, 2026 · 5:45
Right now, somewhere in the open ocean, a raft the size of a small table is drifting with no one steering it. It's called a fish aggregating device, or FAD, and the tuna industry…
Jul 10, 2026 · 7:19
Scientists have uncovered an incredible secret hiding in plain sight on coral reefs. Some tropical sea sponges are able to harvest sunlight through microscopic algae living…
Jul 9, 2026 · 10:06
Sea level rise isn't always dramatic. Long before homes disappear beneath the waves, coastal communities can lose something even more essential: safe drinking water. In this…
Jul 8, 2026 · 9:57
The world just pledged more than $6.4 billion for ocean conservation at the 2026 Our Ocean Conference, but history tells us that big announcements do not always lead to…
Jul 7, 2026 · 8:53
Thousands of seabirds are washing ashore along California's coast, starving, exhausted, and unable to find enough food. While the images are heartbreaking, scientists say the…
Jul 6, 2026 · 8:22
Canada has admitted it is no longer on track to meet its 2030 climate targets, but the reasons go far beyond domestic politics. In this episode, we explore how changing economic…
Jul 3, 2026 · 50:56
Most of us will never visit the deep ocean, yet it covers the majority of our planet and supports life in ways we're only beginning to understand. In this episode, Andrew Lewin…
Jul 2, 2026 · 6:26
How do you protect something you barely understand? In this episode, we explore why ocean exploration is much more than discovering strange creatures or mapping the seafloor.…
Jul 1, 2026 · 12:02
The deep ocean is one of the most extreme places on Earth. Crushing pressure, freezing temperatures, and total darkness make it impossible for humans to explore for long, yet…
Jun 30, 2026 · 7:39
Most people picture the deep sea as a dark, empty place where almost nothing can survive. The truth is far more surprising. Thousands of meters below the surface lives an…
Jun 29, 2026 · 7:16
How can we know more about the Moon and Mars than the bottom of our own ocean? It sounds impossible, but it is true. In this episode, we begin a special series on deep ocean…
Jun 26, 2026 · 10:10
What happens to marine conservation when a humanitarian crisis unfolds? In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , we explore the remarkable story of marine scientist Mohammed…
Jun 25, 2026 · 12:39
For years, mangrove forests were seen as one of the world's fastest disappearing coastal ecosystems. Cleared for development, shrimp farming, and agriculture, these unique…
Jun 24, 2026 · 8:42
A potential super El Niño is developing in the Pacific Ocean, and scientists are warning that it could have major consequences for marine ecosystems around the world. While El…
Jun 23, 2026 · 34:59
After 11 years of hosting How to Protect the Ocean , I wanted to take a step back and reflect on what the journey has taught me. What started as a simple passion project became a…
Jun 22, 2026 · 9:10
What happens when one of the world's most important ocean monitoring systems is nearly shut down? The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) collects critical data on ocean…
Jun 19, 2026 · 20:18
The ocean is facing some of the biggest challenges in its history. Rising temperatures, marine heatwaves, coral bleaching, habitat loss, and overfishing continue to put pressure…
Jun 18, 2026 · 18:28
For decades, Indigenous communities were often asked whether they approved of projects happening in their territories. But a different question is now emerging: why should they…
Jun 17, 2026 · 17:50
Pilot whales rely on sound for nearly every aspect of their lives. They use vocalizations to communicate with family members, coordinate movements, find food, and navigate…
Jun 16, 2026 · 17:01
In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, Andrew Lewin looks at the Trump administration's move to reopen protected marine sanctuary waters to commercial fishing and asks a…
Jun 15, 2026 · 16:23
A viral underwater video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea recently captured the attention of people around the world. For many viewers, the footage seemed to show…
Jun 12, 2026 · 11:57
Ocean conservation is often treated like an impossible problem, but the truth is simpler: when strong laws are created, enforced, and guided by science, ocean protection works.…
Jun 11, 2026 · 10:12
Canada has a rare chance to become a global ocean conservation leader, but the path is not simple. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, Andrew Lewin breaks down Canada's…
Jun 10, 2026 · 9:16
The world has now protected about 10% of the ocean, a major milestone compared to where we were a decade ago. But with the global 30x30 target aiming to protect 30% of land and…
Jun 9, 2026 · 12:13
Many people feel powerless when it comes to environmental issues. Whether it's climate change, habitat destruction, or controversial development projects, it can seem like the…
Jun 7, 2026 · 14:32
Ocean conservation often focuses on threats: climate change, overfishing, plastic pollution, deep-sea mining, and political failure. But on World Ocean Day, this episode takes a…
Jun 5, 2026 · 49:28
Cold water oceans do not always get the same attention as coral reefs and tropical beaches, but they are full of incredible life, beauty, and ecological importance. In this…
Jun 4, 2026 · 8:24
Tide pools may look like simple puddles along the shoreline, but they are tiny ocean ecosystems filled with fish, crabs, snails, sea stars, worms, algae, and other hidden marine…
Jun 3, 2026 · 6:16
Leatherback sea turtles are usually associated with warm tropical beaches, but some of the world's largest sea turtles travel thousands of kilometers to cold Canadian waters each…
Jun 2, 2026 · 5:33
Blue sharks are one of the most beautiful and misunderstood predators in the ocean. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , we explore how this sleek, cold water shark can…
Jun 1, 2026 · 9:30
Ocean sunfish are one of the strangest fish on Earth. They can look like a giant floating dinner plate, drift sideways at the surface, and appear almost lifeless, but their…
May 29, 2026 · 1:11:48
High Seas Treaty | Ocean Governance | Marine Protection How do you protect an ocean that belongs to everyone and no one at the same time? In this episode of How to Protect the…
May 28, 2026 · 8:10
The High Seas Treaty took nearly 20 years to negotiate, not because countries disagreed that the ocean matters, but because ocean protection becomes much harder when money,…
May 27, 2026 · 10:24
High Seas Treaty implementation is now the real test for ocean conservation. The agreement was historic, but the hardest part was never getting countries to celebrate the deal.…
May 26, 2026 · 10:02
High seas protection sounds powerful, but can marine protected areas actually work thousands of kilometres from shore? In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin…
May 25, 2026 · 10:56
High seas conservation matters because nearly half of the planet lies beyond any one country's control. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , we ask a deceptively simple…
May 22, 2026 · 1:01:18
Forage fish may be small, but they hold Canada's ocean food web together. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin speaks with Jack Daly, marine scientist at…
May 20, 2026 · 8:33
Small fish like sardines, anchovies, herring, and capelin may not get much attention, but they quietly power entire ocean ecosystems. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean…
May 20, 2026 · 8:28
Forage fish are some of the most important animals in the ocean, but most people barely know they exist. Sardines, anchovies, herring, capelin, and other small schooling fish…
May 19, 2026 · 9:18
Forage fish may be small, but they help hold the ocean food web together. Species like sardines, anchovies, herring, capelin, and sand lance feed whales, seabirds, salmon, cod,…
May 18, 2026 · 8:29
Forage fish may be small, but they help power the entire ocean food web. Species like sardines, anchovies, herring, capelin, and sand lance feed whales, seabirds, tuna, salmon,…
May 15, 2026 · 39:27
Ocean conservation funding is one of the biggest challenges facing nonprofits today. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin speaks with nonprofit consultant…
May 14, 2026 · 6:46
Ocean conservation is often framed as hopeful, inspiring, and mission-driven. But behind the scenes, many scientists, advocates, educators, and communicators are dealing with…
May 13, 2026 · 10:33
Ocean science can tell us what is happening to marine ecosystems, fisheries, climate impacts, and protected areas, but that information does not always reach the people who need…
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