Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2021

Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheets have caused about a quarter of the rise in the world’s sea levels. The post What’s Up With Water — August 16, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Like rising temperatures, ice loss in Greenland will have global consequences. This is Eileen Wray-McCann – thanks for being here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

While the Governor signed a number of significant environmental laws, he also vetoed several, including laws intended to address impacts to low-income communities of color from air pollution, water pollution, and sea level rise. The post 2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted? A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Rising sea levels in Bangladesh are inundating farmland and contaminating water supplies. “My Al Jazeera reports that Khatun, the villager in Gabura, spends most of her income on medicines for skin diseases many residents suffer from due to water and land contamination from rising sea levels. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Precipitation, flooding, and sea levels are rising in Maryland. The move comes amid criticism of state and local officials’ handling of the years-long water crisis in Benton Harbor, where lead levels were found to be higher than those during the crisis in the Michigan city of Flint in 2014. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hope for government relief is weaning among Ghanaians displaced by rising sea levels and flooding. “By Seaside towns and cities like Keta have slowly been eroding over the years due to rising sea levels. The Year in Water, 2021: Water Crises Take Center Stage. By Sunday at dawn, the water was everywhere.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As an archipelago, Indonesia is at the prey of sea level rise. Jakarta, a city of ten million, is only two feet above sea level. Indonesia’s 2021 climate pledge under the Paris Agreement was to reduce emissions from 2020-2030 by 29%. It gets relatively attention in the United States.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

Reuters reports that high water incidents in Venice are becoming more common as sea levels rise and land subsidence causes the ground level of the city to sink. The post The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. What’s Up With Water – November 8, 2021 – This week’s episode covers a declaration from Colombian officials at COP26 and an Oregon city working to keep Google’s water consumption out of the public eye. In context: A Sinking Metropolis.

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Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

The 2021 infrastructure bill, which required bipartisan support in both Houses to pass, contained $47 billion for climate resilience. billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. Notably, this funding is coming with bipartisan support. The bill includes $1.5

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2021

What’s Up With Water – July 12, 2021 – This week’s episode covers a call in China for greater protections along the Yellow River and a controversial pipeline that will not be built in Tennessee. FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. Levels in Lake Ontario are currently 245.34 TODAY’S TOP WATER STORIES, TOLD IN NUMBERS.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

What’s Up With Water – August 30, 2021 – This week’s episode covers plans to build seawater desalination plants in Egypt, a potential storage site for nuclear waste near Lake Huron in Canada, and new research that found that climate change is behind the intensity of deadly storms that hit Germany and Belgium last month. 500 MILLION.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Tier 1 shortage was triggered because the water level in Mead is projected to be 1,065 feet above sea level at the end of 2021 — 10 feet lower than the shortage threshold. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 17, 2021. Each is about one-third full.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Navigating Loss and Damage Loss and Damage encompasses a spectrum of devastating impacts from climate change, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires, storms, and slow-onset events such as sea-level rise. For example, a May 2021 study in Nature Communications found that an additional $8.1

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The Department of Energy Science for the Future Act increases recommended funding levels for the Office of Science to $11.1 Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. Responses to this request for information are due July 28, 2021.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore receives 2021 MacArthur fellowship. by Zack Colman, PoliticoPro, 10/6/2021. 18-19, 2021 and will focus on “combatting and adapting to climate change, including ongoing work within individual federal agencies, implications for national security, and achieving net zero emissions by 2050.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

As for hurricanes, Texas suffered no fewer than 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones from 1980 through 2021. Louisiana: Jeff Landry Nearly a million residents of Louisiana—the second hottest state—are threatened by coastal flooding, and between 2000 and 2021 the state was hit by 28 tropical or subtropical cyclones.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Without steep cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the report reminds us, the world will warm by over 2 °C this century – triggering more frequent heat waves, greater flooding, higher sea levels and more extreme heavy rainfall and droughts. Is the answer to climate change lying beneath your feet? Between the lines: Environment special.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

.” More extreme weather events can be expected Petteri Taalas explained that the higher concentrations of GHG would be accompanied by more extreme weather events, including intense heat and rainfall, ice melt, higher sea levels, as well as ocean heat and acidification.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

The DRBC has also developed a complex computer model to evaluate sea level rise scenarios and plan for systemic impacts within the basin. In 2021, DRBC held its first Climate Change Forum. In 2022 and 2024, DRBC worked with the Pa. Emergency Management Agency to advance hazard mitigation and reduce flood losses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, sea level rise and climate-driven migration from the islands threatens Vanuatu sand drawing traditions, endangering the passing down of important traditional knowledge on kinship, farming, and seasonal cycles. Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified.

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

Their annual ‘State of the Global Climate’ report indicated that the accelerating pace of climate change was to blame for acidification and that the melting of ice sheets contributed to pushing sea level rises to new heights in 2021. And in just the past decade global sea levels have risen 4.5

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

While temperatures provide a measure of the Earth’s climate, it is even better to use the global sea level , which provides a far more reliable measure. The global sea level acts like the mercury in a thermometer because warmer water expands.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions. Mumbai is on a peninsula and faces severe risks from sea level rise. The national electricity plan projected that renewables will exceed coal in 2027.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Low-lying areas of tropical Pacific islands’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [2] Photo credit.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Twenty-four ESA members and graduate students in ecology participated in virtual Hill visits, as a part of the 2021 Katherine S. By Ryan McCrimmon, PoliticoPro, 5-13-2021. By Doug Plamer, 5-13-2021, PoliticoPro. Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Virtually Visit the Hill to Advocate for Science Funding. 2 position at USDA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

There is, in fact, substantial scientific evidence that there’s a strong link between global warming and heat waves and coastal flooding from sea-level rise,” I said. But before he was able to do that in my imaginary scenario, I corrected the record. Previously, its reports included grants of $5,000 or more. billion respectively.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an opinion filed on December 29, 2021, and later ordered published on January 25, 2022, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. It also discussed climate change and sea level rise impacts, noting the Bay level could rise as much as 5.5 The Court’s Rejection of Plaintiffs’ Arguments Concerning Sea Level Rise.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The current interim SCC figure was published by the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG), pursuant to Executive Order 13990, signed by President Biden in 2021. The increase from the interim figure is largely due to the application of a lower discount rate and improvements to the underlying science.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

– Daniel Carpenter-Gold joins us as a Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2021-23. – Heather Dadashi joins us as an Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2021-23, where she will pursue projects related to sea-level rise, water, and climate change. Dadashi earned her J.D.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2024

Multnomah County vs Big Oil where the largest county in Oregon, home to Portland, sued ExxonMobil and others for damages and adaptation costs following 2021’s unprecedented and deadly heatwave.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Global warming is leading to sea-level rise on an unprecedented scale, according to IPCC scientists. Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 At the same time, the seas are warmer than they used to be, which can lead to more tropical storms and a higher risk of coastal flooding. metres by 2100. (In

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

The group specifically referenced the inclusion of heritage impacts in the IPCC’s 6 th Assessment Report and the International Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, held in December 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The 2021 Arctic Report Card noted the first time rain occurred at the Greenland summit of the ice sheet. The Greenland ice sheet holds the equivalent of around 7 extra meters of global sea level rise were it to disappear completely. Rain falling on ice can accelerate a phase transition from solid ice to liquid water.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

As we crossed into the first national park on our trip, we were met by acres upon acres of blackened, dead trees—victims of the Dixie Fire, which burned nearly one million acres in 2021. Acres upon acres of scorched trees in Lassen Volcanic National Park following the 2021 Dixie Fire in northern California.

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