Hunting dolphins is illegal, but that doesn't stop Peru's shark fishermen from slaughtering dolphins to use as bait.
Ocean Health
From the Arctic Ocean to the South Pacific, the impacts of climate change are becoming impossible to ignore. Ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, the very chemistry of the seas is undergoing change.
Through this Pulitzer Center Gateway, readers can explore a range of journalism on critical issues related to the health of our oceans and ways in which scientists and local communities are adapting and fighting for the future of our oceans. From ground-breaking reports on ocean acidification to stories on how the melting Arctic icecap is affecting our lives, these in-depth projects shed new light on under-reported crises that will have a lasting—and potentially devastating—impact on future generations.
The Gateway also looks at how overfishing, oil exploration and exploitation of mineral resources beneath the ocean’s surface can degrade the environment and jeopardize food sources needed to sustain the planet’s ever-expanding population. Through this journalism, the Pulitzer Center hopes to inform the debate on one of the most critical challenges of our time—the health of our oceans.
Undercover filming by the UK investigative team Ecostorm has exposed — for the first time — the brutal hunting and killing of dolphins for use as shark bait off Peru's Pacific coast.
A brutal and illegal practice takes place far off the coast of Peru--the secret slaughter of thousands of dolphins for use as bait in the lucrative long-line shark fisheries.
Photojournalists share their reporting and expertise on topics from farming in Jamaica and fracking in the US to the health of our Earth's waterways.
Writer Erik Vance discusses his project "Emptying the World's Aquarium," from the coast of the Sea of Cortez.
We know that carbon dioxide emissions are affecting the planet’s climate. Now it appears that these carbon emissions are also altering the chemistry of our oceans.
PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez narrates the first of three reports on climate change in the Arctic region, focusing on crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea.
Scientists fear ocean acidification will bring the collapse of Alaska’s iconic crab fishery.
A Washington state family opens an oyster hatchery in Hawaii to escape lethal waters.
In 2009, The Seattle Times reported that ocean acidification – the plummeting pH of seas from carbon-dioxide emissions – was killing billions of Northwest oysters. That was only the beginning.