The world’s oceans are suffering from pollution by everything from plastics to dangerous chemicals and oil spills, and from industrial overfishing. Fish populations are being depleted almost to extinction. Plastics and their progeny, microplastics, are in the ocean water and in seafood, but also in us humans, in our blood, our lungs, even our brains.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are people working for change. One of those people is my guest in this edition of Mothering Earth. She is Joanie Steinhaus, Ocean Director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network.