Carl Safina

“Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina” Available on Netflix

Netflix now offers Carl Safina’s PBS series Saving the Ocean. Join host Carl Safina as he chronicles the unsung heroes who are hard at work inventing and implementing solutions to save the world’s oceans. Most of us have heard about the effects overfishing, pollution and industry are having on the world’s oceans. It’s time for [...]

Return of the Swordfish, Georges Bank, Canada

Getting There After steaming overnight 10 hours from Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, I woke 100 miles at sea. We’re at one of the most famous fishing areas in the northwest Atlantic Ocean: Georges Bank. No one would call the water as I first laid eyes on it calm, but we expect it to lay down [...]

What is the ocean worth to you?

What is the ocean worth to you? That was the question posed as we convened for the Kava Bowl Ocean Summit Conference in Honolulu this week. The spiritual power of our convening came from the seven traditional voyaging canoes that had sailed in the ancient fashion—no GPS, no compass—with master Pacific navigators using the stars [...]

Day 4: Bear Conservation

Day 4. Kayaking has become breakfast, followed by food on the boat. Mid-morning, we visited a lighthouse station, still manned, on a small gull-covered isle named Green Island. These seemed all to be Glaucous-winged Gulls, and we found two nests. The island also hosted scarlet-legged Pigeon Guillemots and Black Oystercatchers, with a few Black Turnstones. [...]

Trip on Bluewater Adventures’ Island Odyssey to Khutzeymateen Inlet, British Columbia

After a manic six months over-occupied with two book launches, perhaps a hundred interviews, and our TV show launches, this trip is mainly a rare chance to simply unwind. I’ve been invited as a guest by Bluewater Adventures owner Randy Burke and bear expert Barrie Gilbert, who in the early 1970s was “killed,” as he [...]

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About Carl Safina

Carl Safina's writing explores the scientific, moral, and social dimensions of our relationship with nature.

His writing has been awarded such distinctions as: New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Los Angeles Times "Best Nonfiction," Library Journal's "Best Science Book," Lannan Literary Award, John Burroughs Medal, the National Academies' "Year's Best Book for communicating science."

Safina is a recipient of the Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment, Chicago¹s Brookfield Zoo¹s Rabb Medal, and a MacArthur prize, among many other honors.

He is an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, and founding president of Blue Ocean Institute.