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Past ORI Action Newsletters:
A Glimmer of Hope in the Abominable Budget July 8, 2025
Make the right gift for right whales June 29, 2025
Holy mackerel, we need the NOAA! June 24, 2025
For Cod & Country 🐟 June 18, 2025
Today is World 🌊🌊🌊 Day! June 8, 2025
Right whales, Curlew and Koala, are in the ocean waters north of Prince Edward Island, Canada! June 2, 2025
After all the ocean does for us, it’s time to return the favor, May 22, 2025
Breathe. Wheel. Flukes Up. Dive. Swim On, Whales! May 17, 2025
Tell Congress: Stop the gutting of NOAA May 9, 2025
Down by the Banks of the Alewife Where the Climate Change Waters Flood May 2, 2025
Happy Right Whale Day! April 24, 2025
Kingfisher, another animal saved from extinction! April 18, 2025
A rare win for right whales! April 9, 2025
Update: An up-close look at the proposed National Marine Sanctuary. March 24, 2025
The Sultans of Swag vs. Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now. March 8, 2025
Naming the ten mother right whales giving birth this year. March 1, 2025
Meet Millipede, Loki, Nimbus, and 75 other right whales. February 25, 2025
🎶 Gotta whale lotta love? February 14, 2025
When right whales thrive. January 30, 2025
Let’s jet through the Denmark Straits and the Labrador Current. January 25, 2025
Narwhal, pursuing halibut to the bottom of Baffin Bay. January 18, 2025
We’ve been busy this year! December 30, 2024
This week’s Narwhal Tales: Plimsoll Lines and Finding the Thermocline. December 28, 2024
A pint glass with ice debunks reports of an Atlantic Ocean current collapse. December 21, 2024
The Narwhals’ Tale of Rising Seawater and Sinking Ocean. December 14, 2024
New hope for right whales this year. December 7, 2024
Three Scientist Walked into the Arctic. December 3, 2024
Last Call to Fund the Healthy Soils Program. November 24, 2024
A story from the Shetland Islands. November 23, 2024
What lives for only 12 minutes but sticks around for 1,000 years? Nov 20, 2024
ICYMI: We have great news to share! October 25, 2024
Here it is! (Our revised map!) October 14, 2024
Here’s what we’ve done in 9 months. September 30, 2024
Sailing the Seven Seas: A look around Easter Island. September 24, 2024
Our meeting with the NOAA. September 18, 2024
Why did the right whale swim to Ireland? August 23, 2024
Restoring Right Whale Habitats by Planting Miyawaki Forests in Cities. August 17, 2024
Slow down, save whales. August 9, 2024
From Oceans to Urban Forests. August 5, 2024
Calls for the Right Whale National Marine Sanctuary. August 2, 2024
Trash Talk: Ocean Plastic Pollution. July 24, 2024
There’s a new kind of ship on the sea. July 16, 2024
Here is the next generation of climate change fighters and Planet Earth caretakers! July 9, 2024
Got Right Whales? June 27, 2024
Top ten three-minute climate change stories. June 24, 2024
Happy World Oceans Day! June 8, 2024
Earth and ocean: it’s all connected! June 3, 2024
Where our trash ends up. May 24, 2024
Shipping, shopping, and whales. May 18, 2024
Creature Feature: What whales eat. May 9, 2024
Much ado about the ocean-blue. May 1, 2024
A lively discussion of the practice and power of youth activism. April 27, 2024
Happy Right Whale Day! April 24, 2024
Youth-Powered Climate Justice with Our Children’s Trust. April 17, 2024
Land and Sea Change for Earth Day: Expanding the Climate Change Narrative. April 8, 2024
A new kind of wind energy is picking up speed off the coast of Massachusetts. March 28, 2025
Did you know? March 18, 2024
A surprise whale sighting. March 13, 2024
Natural Rights for Forests, Rivers, and Fields, March 4, 2024
A whale of a challenge for Leap Day, February 29, 2024
What’s under the waters of New England?, February 27, 2024
Tell the NOAA: it’s time to protect right whales! February 18, 2024
Every day is a good day to show your love to the whales! February 14, 2024
We can keep them coming back year after year. February 12, 2024
The Kraken and the Erie Canal, February 3, 2024
Fluking along, flipper by flipper, January 31, 2024
Go slow, whales below! January 27, 2024
We need broad, standardized, and enforceable rules, January 16, 2024
Tell them: Stick to the commitment to phase out fossil fuels! January 10, 2024
What happens in soils and forests does not stay in soils and forests. December 30, 2023
Biden’s Ocean Justice Strategy is Launched, December 15, 2023
The high stakes for the right whale, December 12, 2023
Just the facts on right whales, December 5, 2023
6,000 square miles for right whales, November 22, 2023
The Right Whale is on the verge of extinction, November 17, 2023
Enough blooming guacamole on Florida’s waterways! November 4, 2023
Regenerating Life with Planet-Cooling, Holistic, Restorative Practices,
Ukrainian advances holistic management with local farmers. October 5, 2023
How to Get Rid of Bugs Without Pesticides, September 23, 2023
How We Created the Hottest Global Average Temperature Day – July 17, 2023
Heavy weather sailing ahead, the time to act for climate change is fading fast – July 12, 2023
Slow Water Drought Relief Carbon Offset Fund– June 28, 2023
Soils, Residential Lawns, and Groundwater Together Are Reducing the Climate Catastrophe; It’s a Global Climate Change Project – June 22, 2023
Winning the Fight for the Lives of Whales; MA officially declared April 24 as Right Whale Day to raise awareness about the endangered. – April 13, 2023
Atlantic Ocean Off Florida Spawns a Giant Sargassum Blob Due to Climate Change and Nutrient Pollution – March 25, 2023
Relist the manatee as endangered, not threatened, with more than 800 dead in 2022; relisting obligates the government to act. – March 17, 2023
Three Right Whales in the Cape Cod Canal; all canal traffic stopped Sunday and Monday. – March 6, 2023
Stop bill preventing climate change metrics for pension fund investors – March 2, 2023
Whales need you to act locally, even the whales at the bottom of the world. – February 24, 2023
Rescue Right Whales from Entanglements – January 14, 2023
Glimmer of hope in a reindeer story – December 27, 2022
Slowing Water for a Greener Massachusetts – December 2, 2022
Top Gun at Cop 27, It’s not the plane. It’s the pilot. – November 28, 2022
Biden’s Game-Changing Administrative Actions for Climate at COP27 – The Sun Chronicle November 29, 2022
Act for More Ocean-based Climate Solutions Right NOW! – August 31, 2022
Why the Inflation Reduction Act deserves your support – August 10, 2022
The Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind – July 28, 2022
We need Massachusetts lawmakers to take this drought seriously – July 25, 2022
Speak out for Right Whales – June 29, 2022
A Day for Right Whales – June 20, 2022
We can’t let them destroy Florida’s Oculina Coral Reef – March 17, 2022
Tell Congress to Rescue Right Whales, call for passage of the SAFE Seas Act – March 10, 2022
“11th Hour Calling” – Ring Out and March for Climate Justice – February 21, 2022
