Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 14, 2022

While “New Year, New Me” is a bit of a cliché at this point, the ocean teaches us that radical transformation is possible. Throughout their lives many ocean animals shed parts of themselves in order to live healthier. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Lobsters. ©

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That’s almost five decades of working towards a clean, healthy, sustainable ocean. I am humbled when I think about all Ocean Conservancy has seen and accomplished since 1972. We’ve witnessed mind-blowing ocean discoveries, like new bioluminescent sharks and ancient fossils that illustrate what the ocean looked like eons ago.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Controlled field trials and other in-ocean research is critical to improve scientific and societal understanding of CDR techniques that could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

As a person immersed in this interior, “fresh coast” worldview, I hadn’t spent much time considering how our practices might affect the ocean thousands of miles away. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What would this mean for the ocean and coastal spaces? Enter Your Email.loading.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. SWOT, which will measure ocean currents in addition to freshwater flows, will be the latest entrant into this hall of remote sensing champions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But the effect of greenhouse gases is not even investigated in the paper – which suggests the title is politically motivated. The only region of cooling is the northern Atlantic, where climate models have long predicted just that due to a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. Gray areas show lack of data.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Applying Clean Water Act to shrimp trawlers’ dumping of bycatch back in the ocean. The Court described major questions issues as arising in rare, extraordinary cases of immense economic and political significance. NC Coastal Fisheries Reform Group v. Gason , LLC, 76 F. 4 th 291 (4 th Cir.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” The second concern is political domination, meaning that the autonomy of either the other country as a whole or parts of its population is impaired. In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That’s what we learned in my grade school. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

Because they just “weren’t registered” or they “weren’t interested in politics,” according to this Ipsos survey. The data from 2023 demonstrates that countries can cut rates of tropical forest loss if they garner the political will to do so, and the countries that have accomplished this can provide lessons for others.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2023

Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. There is one orifice that (to put it politely) serves both ingestion and elimination needs for the jellyfish. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. The post Do Jellyfish Have Brains?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

He has doubled down on claims that climate change is a hoax and mocks climate advocates for worrying about whether “the ocean will rise by 1/100th of an inch over the next 350 years.” In a speech in December, he said that wanted to be “dictator for a day” to build a wall and to “drill, drill, drill.”

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2023

Ganter, the co-founder of Circle of Blue, the leading news and science organization that reports on water issues globally, joins noted members such as ocean scientist Sylvia Earle, astronaut and former NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, and Avatar and Titanic film director and deep-diver James Cameron.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

In the US, when we check our local weather forecast, when our communities are recovering from an extreme weather event, or when our fisherfolk are at sea catching food, we are benefitting from the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA has three main goals under its mission: “1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the study, we found that political power dynamics shape international negotiations, that the Paris Agreement temperature goal doesn’t fully account for the dangers of sea level rise, and that climate justice requires fully considering diverse views and experiences of climate change. Sea level rise is also different in different locations.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2021

As ocean lovers, we’re always searching for effective ways to conserve and protect all the ocean holds and provides. No matter our skillset or where we live, we are all connected to the ocean and we each have the potential to contribute. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2022

Moreover, the growing navigability of the Arctic Ocean will be to Russia’s benefit. From the point of view of the regime, immigration could be economically useful, but having tens of millions of people move into Russia from Asia or Africa could have unpredictable social and political consequences.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But the fact that they can pass as part of a bipartisan spending law is a sign of how climate change is slowly becoming normalized as a political consideration. For the first time, the bill also authorizes the federal government to purchase carbon that has been removed from the air or the ocean. They aren’t dramatic step forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

The report, which cited numerous examples of political appointees stifling agency research, was accompanied by a statement signed by more than 60 top scientists , including 20 Nobel laureates, denouncing the Bush administration’s misuse of science. Before the surveys, the extent of the problem was not clear.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

Some of the highest risks can be found in the candidates’ home states: the ocean off of Florida has hit 98 degrees— hot tub temp s! So I’ve begun to meet presidential candidates… … and ask climate questions that relate to their own political history, past statements, and actions.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

United Nations experts will assess plans to release treated radioactive water into the ocean from a closed nuclear power plant in Japan. HotSpots H2O: In Afghanistan, Political Upheaval Aggravates Drought-Fueled Famine – Drought, a financial crisis, and political collapse are accelerating the country’s decline into all-out famine.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

An island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu led an inclusive process to ensure global participation in this request.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants. Researchers say the discharges are packed with metals and organic compounds that threaten marine environments.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 21, 2023

Ocean-based renewable energy could play a big role in decarbonizing the U.S., and healthier oceans can help stabilize the climate, the Ocean Climate Action Plan suggests. By Bob Berwyn Oceans around the world are beset by marine heatwaves , pollution, coral bleaching , mass die-offs and overfishing.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 2, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The warmer the gulf and ocean, the worse the weather; the worse the weather the more likely the spill. Floridians from all walks of life and across the political spectrum need to band together and fight for Florida’s ocean and coasts. Never miss an update!

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In particular, he said, “reliance upon coal, on the other hand, could aggravate the ‘greenhouse effect,’ whereby excess carbon dioxide (which accompanies coal burning) traps heat inside the earth’s atmosphere, thus possibly melting the icecaps and raising the level of the oceans.”

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Bob Berwyn During the past year, the needles on the climate dashboard for global ice melt, heatwaves, ocean temperatures , coral die-offs, floods and droughts all tilted far into the red warning zone. climate science panel, drawing a backlash from other researchers.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 14, 2023

A framework agreement to protect open oceans is the first step toward enacting protections for ecosystems that take CO2 from the air and store it for millennia in sediments. By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn On the high seas, outside the jurisdiction of any country’s government, lie some of the largest reservoirs of biodiversity on Earth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In contrast to civil, political, and economic rights, cultural rights have been side-lined and neglected in dialogues about climate policy and human rights. Warming oceans and ocean acidification have already impacted coral reefs, crayfish, and seagrass beds that are important culturally and economically for the Torres Straits islanders.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 23, 2023

By Adam Goldstein PINEDALE, Wyoming—Driving through an ocean of sagebrush on the Pinedale Anticline in June, Wyoming Game and Fish wildlife biologist supervisor Brandon Scurlock was struck by the sparseness of the population on the landscape. Last winter’s deaths of thousands of Wyoming pronghorn increased interest in “conservation leases.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Even many researching the science or politics of geoengineering are deeply cautious about whether its deployment could ever be justified. Sadly both sides seem to question the motives of their opponents, rather than seeing these issues as legitimate topics of debate that demand public or political judgements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

My research evolved over time, but initially focused on trying to understand how ice sheet collapse—specifically Antarctic ice sheet collapse—could impact climate change around the world through changes in the oceans, sea ice and atmosphere. To explore climate justice, I drew on the three-fold framework of justice theory.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Best estimates to date suggest that the global surface temperature would stabilize within a few decades, but the new paper in the journal Frontiers in Science examines the uncertainties around that conclusion, including how the planet’s key carbon dioxide-absorbing systems, like forests and oceans, will respond.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Sri Lankan marine biologist and ocean educator is best known for her pioneering work on blue whales and for founding the non-profit Oceanswell , Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organization. My aim is to create a community of ocean-conscious individuals.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 11, 2023

New research finds deep-sea mining operations could conflict with the tuna fishery and cause populations to crash as the species moves to escape ocean warming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

Impacts on People and Politics Not Addressed. The proposed SEC rule also fails to address political influence. UCS recommended that the SEC require companies to disclose political activity, including direct and indirect election spending and lobbying. Investors—and the public—deserve stability and certainty.

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