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Species on the Move: How Climate Change Is Re-Making Ecosystems

Union of Concerned Scientists

To address these issues, the third international Species on the Move conference convened in Bonita Springs, Florida, in May 2023. Deforestation and forest fragmentation are making it harder for species to move in response to climate chnage. Photo: T.R. Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal and the U.S.’s

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. SIDS face a range of risks, including extreme floods, storms, droughts, unpredictability of precipitation patterns and sea-level rise, ocean acidification and deoxygenation (World Health Organization, 2018; Douglas & Cooper, 2020, Thomas, 2020).

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Where’d the wood go? The importance of wood in rivers and how we can learn to appreciate it

HumanNature

We also know that wood is stored for a period of time in streams, but that an essential function of wood is movement through river systems at varying rates 19,20 to its final destinations of lakes and oceans 21. Geomorphology 116 , 305–319 (2010). River Res Appl (2023) doi:10.1002/rra.4114. © 2021 Emily Iskin Art & Design.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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