By Dr. Lauren Palmer, Veterinarian at Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles Over the last 26 years the Marine Mammal Care Center, located in San Pedro, has admitted almost 8,000 stranded marine mammals. These are primarily California sea lions, northern …

By Dayna Wells, Principal of Point Fermin Marine Science Magnet School Oh, did you think it meant something different?   Me too. At first, before last year happened. It was a classroom full of fifth graders that taught me the …

By Mary Luna, Coastal and Marine Scientist, Heal the Bay During my student days I used to drive from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica for a relaxing run on the sand. I’ve always found the shoreline a peaceful place. …

By California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (D-Whittier), author of Assembly Bill 1884, which calls upon dine-in, full service restaurants to have a straws-upon-request policy. The California Coastal Commission has recorded roughly 835,425 plastic straws and stirrers collected between 1988 …

By Meghan Stirpe, an environmental advocacy researcher within the fashion and textile industry Much of the global public is aware that plastic is an enemy to our oceans. We’ve heard about the dangers of exfoliating microbeads — in fact, the …