A committed activist, Ramón has worked on numerous projects to safeguard Chile’s vibrant surf environment and protect its coastline, one of the largest in the world.
Read More
Under current CO2 emission scenarios, nations like the Maldives, Vanuatu and The Marshall Islands face an uncertain future – and could even disappear entirely before the end of the century.
Read More
In the wild, hermit crabs can live up to 40 years –– if they manage to avoid the huge amounts of plastic we keep sending their way.
Read More
Clean Waves catches up with Emily Penn – a British ocean advocate and skipper who has trawled for microplastics on a voyage across the North Pacific Gyre, joined Parley Ocean Schools to teach in the Maldives and Hawai’i, and rounded the planet on a record-breaking bio-fuelled boat.
Read More
Shot along Rio's iconic Ipanema Beach, Vava Ribeiro's ongoing series explores youth, identity and a new generation's relationship to the oceans.
Read More
Cyrill Gutsch catches up with Clean Waves collaborator M.I.A. – aka Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam. A pioneering voice for a global humanitarian perspective, her sound fuses elements of dancehall, electro, bhangra and baile funk to create multilingual, multi-ethnic soundscapes that elude easy classification.
Read More
How Clean Waves uses beaches as classrooms and remote islands as laboratories for change
Read More
Anastasia Korosteleva’s photographs from backpacking around the Maldives during the school holidays, when all the kids wanted to do was kick back and float out in the open ocean
Read More
Clean Waves focuses on some of the most remote, uninhabited islands of the Maldives – protecting these miniatures paradises from plastic pollution.
Read More
A deep dive into the social and sexual habits of the ocean’s smartest fish.
Read More
To transform plastic waste into Clean Waves sunglasses and other Ocean Plastic® products, Parley has created a vast, inter-island network throughout the Maldives. Join us on a journey to the source.
Read More
Literary inspiration for itinerant explorers, nomadic wanderers and desert island readers.
Read More
Shaahina Ali is head of Parley’s programs in the Maldives, working tirelessly across education, plastic interception, government policy and infrastructure development. Clean Waves caught up with Shaahina to find out more about working and living in the ultimate island nation.
Read More
Baavanadhoo Island, protected by Clean Waves, is home to six breeding pairs of these elegant tropical ocean birds.