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Economic Development

The Ocean Is the Key to Economic Recovery

Prior to the pandemic, the multitrillion global ocean economy was growing faster in the US than our national economy as a whole.

BY Rear Admiral Jonathan W. White (USN ret.), & 1 more

Blog Post

06.30.2020
Water

A Dive to the Mariana Trench

On June 14, 2020, just days after she became the first woman ever to visit the deepest point of the global ocean, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, former NASA astronaut and NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan spoke with the Aspen High Seas Initiative’s Executive Director, Michael Conathan.

BY Aspen High Seas Initiative & 1 more

Video

06.29.2020
The Environment

Celebrating Our Ocean on Earth Day

Let’s spend Earth Day remembering the two-thirds of our planet that makes it uniquely suited to foster life.

BY

Blog Post

04.22.2020
The Environment

AHSI Brings Marine Conservation to Aspen Ministers Forum

On Friday, November 22, 2019 during an Aspen Ministers Forum convened in Vienna, Austria by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, the Aspen High Seas Initiative (AHSI) presented a special session on the accelerating global biodiversity crisis and urgent need to strengthen targets for conservation of marine biodiversity in particular.

BY Aspen High Seas Initiative

Of Interest

12.11.2019
The Environment

Saving the High Seas

A tide of threats against the ocean is rising, but pioneering ocean scientist and advocate Dr. Sylvia Earle, co-chair of the Aspen High Seas Initiative, has a solution.

BY Ben Berliner

Podcast

03.28.2019
The Environment

Deep Ocean Science in the Dark

Regulators must take caution as companies push to mine the ocean floor.

BY Custom Author

Blog Post

03.06.2019
The Environment

Introducing the Aspen High Seas Initiative

Half the planet's surface is protected by no international rules or regulations — and it needs our help.

BY Custom Author

Blog Post

06.08.2018
The Environment

Tracking Great White Sharks

Follow the RV Falkor on its expedition to the White Shark Café.

BY Lalini Pedris

Blog Post

05.21.2018
The Environment

A Report of the Commission on Arctic Climate Change

The Aspen Institute and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation are pleased to release the final report and recommendations of the Aspen Institute Commis ...

BY Energy and Environment Program

Publication

01.25.2011