How To Protect The Ocean

Dive into the Depths: Join Andrew Lewin on 'How to Protect the Ocean' – Your Gateway to Exclusive Ocean Insights! Explore the latest, uncharted realms of ocean science and conservation that you won't find anywhere else. Andrew takes you on an inspiring journey to uncover the hidden gems of oceanic discovery and initiatives. Tune in to discover how you can transform your life for a better ocean, one episode at a time.

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Dec. 8, 2025

Marine Wildlife Victory: Why New Protections for Manta Rays and Sharks Change Everything

Marine Wildlife Victory raises a powerful question: what does it take to finally protect some of the ocean’s most threatened giants, and why did it take this long? In this episode, you will hear how manta rays, devil rays, an...

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Dec. 4, 2025

Northern Right Whale Hope Story: Why the Population Finally Rose and What It Means Next

Northern Right Whale crisis : For years, scientists and advocates have watched this critically endangered species decline due to ship strikes, fishing gear entanglement, and rapid ocean change. This episode asks a crucial que...

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Dec. 2, 2025

What’s behind your canned tuna? The shocking truth supermarkets never tell you

Supermarket tuna raises a disturbing question: What’s behind your canned tuna? In this episode, you uncover the hidden human cost of the global tuna industry, including the devastating story of fisherman Deby Putra Bunanda, w...

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Nov. 30, 2025

COP30 Belém: The Hidden Decisions That Could Change the Ocean Forever

Ocean crisis: COP30 Belém exposed massive gaps in climate action, and the ocean will carry the burden. In this episode we break down the missing fossil fuel commitments, the weak climate finance language, and the two track po...

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Nov. 26, 2025

How Deep Sea Mining Could Break the Ocean’s Most Important Wildlife Highways

How Deep Sea Mining could permanently disrupt the ocean’s most important animal routes, and most people have never thought about it. This episode asks the critical question: what happens when mining operations collide with sp...

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Nov. 23, 2025

Fish Farm Clean Up: What they pulled from a Forty Ton Ghost Farm will SHOCK you!

Fish Farm Clean Up reveals the hidden reality beneath a quiet coastline in Methana, Greece, where a ghost fish farm left behind more than forty tons of plastic cages, nets, metal frames, pipes, and even sunken boats. What loo...

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Nov. 19, 2025

Whales don’t get cancer: How bowhead whale DNA could change human health

Whales don’t get cancer as often as you might expect, and in this episode you learn how the bowhead whale’s unique DNA repair system is helping scientists understand cancer prevention and healthy aging. This Arctic giant live...

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Nov. 13, 2025

Fish feed in aquaculture, understanding what goes into feeding farmed fish

Fish feed in aquaculture is at the center of a complicated global story that most people never hear about. In this episode, Andrew sits down with marine biologist and policy expert Marine Cusa to explore the hidden world of f...

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Nov. 11, 2025

Orcas vs Great White Sharks: How Killer Whales Are Changing Shark Populations

Orcas vs Great White Sharks is more than a dramatic headline—it’s a sign of how ocean ecosystems are shifting before our eyes. New drone footage shows orcas in the Gulf of California attacking and killing juvenile great white...

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Nov. 9, 2025

Seagrass Decline in Moreton Bay: What Long-Term Research Reveals About Ocean Change

Seagrass meadows are among the most vital yet overlooked ecosystems on our planet. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin explores a new 19-year study from Moreton Bay, Australia, which shows that seagrass...

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Dec. 4, 2025

Northern Right Whale Numbers Rise: What It Means for an Endangered Gi…

The crisis facing the Northern Right Whale is urgent, and the stakes could not be higher. With only 384 individuals left, every birth, every loss, and every policy decision matters. For the first time in years, the population did not decline. It ro…

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Dec. 1, 2025

COP30 Belém: The Climate Promises That Failed the Ocean

Climate leaders around the world praised the outcomes of COP30 Belém, but when you take a closer look, the ocean tells a very different story. The conference ended without any meaningful commitment to phase out fossil fuels, vague climate fin…

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Nov. 27, 2025

Could Deep Sea Mining Break the Ocean’s Wildlife Highways?

Deep-sea mining is closer than ever, and it may not be the seafloor we should be most worried about. The real danger could be to the ocean’s most important migratory species, including whales, sea turtles, sharks, seabirds, and marine mammals.…

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