World Ocean Day 2025
Our Oceans: Our Responsibility June 8th—World Ocean Day—is more than a day on the calendar. It's a time for reflection, a time for awareness, and most of all, a time for action. Our oceans cover over 70% of the planet's surface, support 80% of all life on Earth, and create over half the oxygen we breathe. They help regulate the climate, support billions of humans with livelihoods and food, and yield unparalleled beauty and biodiversity. And yet, the oceans are in crisis. The Current Reality: A Deepening Crisis Our oceans today suffer from alarming levels of pollution, overuse, and abandonment. Millions of tons of plastic trash are carried into rivers and oceans each year. Plastic bags and bottles to microbeads and fishing nets, this waste kills marine life throughout all levels of the food chain. Sea turtles confuse bags with jellyfish. Birds and fish eat plastic bits. Coral reefs are damaged by chemical runoffs. Worst of all, industrial effluent, raw sewage, agricultura...