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Ocean Conservancy retracts Stemming the Tide ocean plastics study

Environmental News Bits

Source: Ocean Conservancy In February 2015, a groundbreaking paper was published in the journal Science that estimated, for the first time, how much plastic was entering the ocean from land due to mismanaged waste.

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Not just another dot on the graph?

Real Climate

First, it’s been obvious for months that 2023 would be a record year – in temperatures (at the surface, troposphere and in the ocean), in Antarctic sea ice, in the number of big climate disasters etc. Only the jump from 2014 to 2015 (coincidentally (?) Why oh why? So why was 2023 so special? 2023 ; Roach et al., Roach, K.D.

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Championing Ocean Climate Action at COP28

Ocean Conservancy

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27

Ocean Conservancy

Representatives from civil society, non-governmental organizations and the private sector gathered alongside governmental representatives to influence decisions and advance contributions toward the goals of the Paris Agreement of 2015. I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action.

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Wind Industry Activity Strongly Correlated With Whale Deaths, New Study Finds

Environmental Progress

Since 2015.” LISA LINOWES and ERIC TURNER on behalf of the SAVE RIGHT WHALES COALITION Since 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has declared three Unusual Mortality Events (UME) involving large whale species in the Atlantic Ocean. The change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S.

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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?

Real Climate

Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J.

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Ocean Toxin a Heartbreaking Threat for Sea Otters

Science & Climate

Ocean Toxin a Heartbreaking Threat for Sea Otters. Domoic Acid Raises Risk of Fatal Heart Disease for Otters in a Warming Ocean. For example, a massive warm water “blob” in 2015 created a widespread toxic bloom along the West Coast, causing domoic acid levels to spike and forcing the closure of that season’s Dungeness crab fishery. .

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