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Ocean Justice Requires Climate Action for All

Ocean Conservancy

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 Ocean Conservancy’s Justice40 interim report dives into research conducted in Florida at the nexus of failing water infrastructure, climate risk, and federal infrastructure investments in disadvantaged communities.

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What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2021

Circle of Blue

It stressed the need to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, and to limit global warming to 1.5 The report also said it is necessary to enable communities to live with the challenges already confronting them such as extreme weather, acidifying oceans, and rising seas. degrees Celsius.

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What’s Up With Water – June 7, 2021

Circle of Blue

Heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere are spiking not only global air temperatures, but also water temperatures. Overall, oxygen levels in lakes are declining more rapidly than in the ocean, where the effect is also being observed. The post What’s Up With Water – June 7, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Lawmakers have accordingly sought ways to conserve water, particularly in urban areas.

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Are Fisheries Ready for Climate Change?

Ocean Conservancy

The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. The ocean is getting higher and hotter; it holds less oxygen; and it’s becoming more acidic. We know the ocean will keep changing.

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Climate Reality vs. Public Perception: Will Toxic Haze and the 2023 Danger Season Make a Difference?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017, and Hurricane Irma in 2021 were all accompanied by the same question. That means they are a conservative estimate of how much extreme weather costs the United States each year.” A 2021 analysis of more than 88,000 studies since 2012 now finds 99.9

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‘The Opportunity Is Now’: Water Advocates View Upcoming UN Climate Conference as Moment of Relevance

Circle of Blue

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 15, 2021. That report, in the technical language of probabilities and scenarios, underscored the urgency of the moment and the need not only to reduce the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and limit global warming to 1.5