Doppelgängers³

Eating Our Way to Extinction

Who We Were

Ocean Odyssey

Perpetual Planet: Heroes of the Oceans

Seaspiracy

She Is the Ocean

Guardians of the Kingdom

Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy

Poisoning Paradise

Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures

Sonic Sea

Shark Land: Welcome to Cocos Island

México Pelágico

Mission Blue

Chasing Ice

Bag It

Shark Island

Earth Report: State of the Planet 2007

The 11th Hour

Saving Sea Turtles: Preventing Extinction

Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large (formerly Explorer in Residence) since 1998. Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998.
Earle is part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife.
Earle gained a large amount of publicity when she was featured in Seaspiracy (2021), a Netflix Original documentary by British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi.
Earle eats a vegetarian diet. She describes the chemical build-up in carnivorous fish, the 90% depletion of populations of large fish, and references the health of oceans in her dietary decision. Also, she describes the seafood industry as "factory ships vacuuming up fish and everything else in their path. That's like using bulldozers to kill songbirds…".
In a discussion at the Good Food Conference in California, Earle warns of disappearing fish stocks, and that while coastal people's diets have included seafood for centuries, the commercial fishing industry no longer makes sense. She encourages transitions to plant-based diets as a solution.



Sylvia Earle