The 1972 Clean Water Act introduced landmark regulations significantly reducing water pollution in America. However, it did not serve many disadvantaged communities most vulnerable to our climate crisis. From Washington, […]

Every year more than 70 million sharks are harvested for their fins. They are considered a delicacy in Asia used in shark fin soup which has been a status symbol […]

The Anacostia River, nicknamed “DC’s forgotten river,” is an infamously polluted tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. One of only three US rivers to be legally “impaired by trash,” it is […]

For more than a decade, Dean Naujoks has dedicated his career to protecting the Potomac River as a Potomac Riverkeeper. Dean is a fearless advocate—he’s not afraid to take on […]

To the casual eye, oysters are nothing much to look at. Yet this humble shellfish that once populated the Chesapeake Bay’s bottoms in massive numbers, have inspired shooting wars, piracy, […]

This impressionist hybrid documentary traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying […]

In the early twentieth century, a mysterious ecological crisis nearly wiped out the fish that most people cared about in the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth—the Great Lakes. The impact […]

This film chronicles the essential rhythms of Chesapeake Bay: wind, tides, migrations of tundra swans, Monarch butterflies, shorebirds and eels. These ancient migrations, annual rituals repeated repeated for millennia, weave […]

The Potomac River, which borders Washington, D.C. and Maryland, stretches for hundreds of miles and is an important natural resource for the area. Due to its bustling aquatic life and […]

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia and Academy Award®-winning L.A. Times Studios, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern […]