Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

That’s because the parties to the London Convention and London Protocol are meeting from October 28 to November 1 in London to discuss, among other things, governance of ocean alkalinity enhancement and ocean sinking of biomass (e.g. Some are land-based, while others use the ocean. seaweed) for carbon storage.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Moreover, changes in the Arctic have a huge impact on weather patterns north of the equator, including polar vortex disturbances, changes to ocean currents, and extreme heat domes. Icebergs from a Greenland Ice Sheet glacier that has released the largest volume of ice to the ocean over recent years.Brenda Ekwurzel in Arc2024 ).

2024

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 9, 2025

The administration released details earlier this month for the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) and what it would mean for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See more wonderful ocean animals! in economic benefit in 2023. Join Ocean Conservancy in taking action to safeguard NOAA now.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 27, 2025

While plastic pollution continues to flow into our ocean with a garbage truck’s worth every minute, we have seen state and local governments across the country work diligently toward impactful solutions that will combat this crisis and protect our ocean for generations to come. See more wonderful ocean animals!

Ocean

Nature

JUNE 3, 2025

Nature, Published online: 04 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08903-5 Atmospheric reanalyses combined with ocean observations and model simulations show that the extreme 2023 North Atlantic heatwave was primarily driven by anomalously weak winds leading to strongly shoaling mixed layers, with a smaller contribution from clearer skies.

2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

This is a photo of the southern part of the Sierra Nevada in 2023 seen from Tulare County. AB30 (2023) updated current legislation to explicitly include FIRO as an emerging tool to better manage water scarcity and floods. For us water nerds, this view is more than a beautiful landscape.

Climate Change

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

Oremus and her co-author, Anna Papp, an environmental economist, who will be starting a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology later this year, began the research when they learned about a massive trove of data from a nonprofit organization called the Ocean Conservancy.

Law

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the Pacific Fishery Management Council for 15 years before starting her own consultancy.

Ocean

Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

In its offshore wind leasing process in California, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) deployed bidding credits to support workforce training, among other measures. State legislation pertinent to Pier Wind includes AB 3 (Zbur, 2023), AB 2235 (Lowenthal, 2024), and if passed, SB 787 (McNerney, 2025).)

Ocean

Physics World

JULY 24, 2025

In September 2023, seismic detectors around the world began picking up a mysterious signal. It gave us an unprecedented view into Dickson Fjord during the seiche events in September and October 2023,” he says. “By Something – it wasn’t clear what – was causing the entire Earth to shake every 90 seconds.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 16, 2024

ITLOS went further, clarifying the obligations of states to prevent, reduce, and control emissions, protect marine ecosystems, and collaborate internationally to address climate-related ocean impacts. Over 140 such cases have been filed globally since 2016, with 47 new filings in 2023 alone.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The AER failed to inform First Nations communities of the spill until February 6, 2023 (after another spill occurred at Kearl Mine). .” Background On May 19, 2022, Imperial Oil reported a tailings pond spill from the Kearl Oil Sands Mine.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

MAY 21, 2025

Those are daunting statistics for a body of water that looks, even fleetingly, more like ocean than lake a graveyard of shipwrecks as vast as Austria. And as of 2023, cruise ships now berth in Thunder Bay as well, as part of a Great Lakes tour, attracted by the pristine shoreline.

Conservation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

US 2024 Election: Florida braces for impacts as one of the most powerful hurricanes of 2024 prepares to make landfall A warmer ocean and warmer air fueled more destructive storms in 2024, including Hurricane Helene in the US and Typhoon Gaemi in East China, Taiwan and the Philippines.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) monthly outlook for October and November looks to follow this trend in which many parts of the US will have above-average temperatures. We have also been weighing in on the OSHA rulemaking process over the years ( 2022 and 2023 ).

Climate Change

ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Chilean Government At the end of the panel, the moderator asked a representative of the Chilean government, the oceans minister, who was in the audience to give her thoughts. COP16 session on October 25, 2024, presenting findings from Schmitz et al. Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions. Nature Climate Change, 13, 324-333.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

For example, warmer air and oceans are contributing to more intense hurricanes , with record-breaking amounts of rain and rapidly intensifying windspeeds. Leading independent global and U.S. Advances in attribution science also show that climate change is contributing to worsening some types of extreme weather.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

The guidelines , issued in October 2023, would help banks with more than $100 billion in assets manage the ways in which climate change affects bonds, mortgages, and other financial products.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

(CFIUS) Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Energy Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Farm Service Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Fish and Wildlife Service Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Service Food Safety and Inspection Service Foreign Agricultural Service Forest (..)

2013

Law Columbia

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States obligations regarding climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Already this year, the President has declared 117 disasters, 87 of which have been major disaster declarations (compared with 71 major disaster declarations in 2023, 47 in 2022, 58 in 2021 and 104 in 2020). In 2023, that number shrank to just 12 days between disasters. Unfortunately, disaster costs have been steadily rising.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For each NDC we reviewed, we searched for the keywords “blue carbon,” “carbon sink,” “wetland,” “mangrove,” “saltmarsh,” “seagrass”, as well as broader terms such as “blue economy” and “ocean”. Relevant phrases from NDCs, including these terms, were extracted and analyzed.

Carbon Dioxide

Law Columbia

JULY 18, 2025

The Opinion responds to a 2023 request from Colombia and Chile, asking the IACtHR to clarify the scope of States’ obligations to address the climate emergency under international human rights law. 64), including rising temperatures, ocean warming (para. The IACtHR acknowledged the global harms caused by climate change (para.

Climate Change

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

These include direct air capture (DAC) and ocean alkalinity enhancement, which involves tweaking the chemistry of oceans so that they absorb more CO 2. Ocean fertilization – Enhancement of nutrient supply to the near-surface ocean with the aim of sequestering additional CO 2 from the atmosphere stimulated through biological production.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2025

On the ground, firefighters are using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites for wildfire monitoring in real time. Today, those duties are carried out by the National Weather Service (NWS), housed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Department of Commerce. million times.

2010

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

Between 2018-2023, at least 30% of utility-scale wind and solar projects were cancelled during the siting process, largely because of community opposition, local ordinances, and zoning. In December 2024, Cape May County finally dropped a lawsuit against Ocean Wind 1 , which had been canceled for financial reasons in 2023.

Law

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2025

These seeds are vital for the country’s food security and cultural heritage, especially given the ongoing civil unrest since 2023. It is a Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

(CFIUS) Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Energy Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Farm Service Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Fish and Wildlife Service Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Service Food Safety and Inspection Service Foreign Agricultural Service Forest (..)

2013

Scientific American

JULY 23, 2025

On July 23 more than 35 million people are at a major or extreme risk of heat effects , according to the National Weather Service , a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She joined Scientific American in 2023 and is now a senior news reporter there. in the coming week, meteorologists warn.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has tracked extreme weather and climate-related disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and floods. Nevertheless, fossil fuel industry proxies immediately filed lawsuits against the rule.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Partly to address water concerns, China is now putting a data center in the wettest place there is: the ocean. Hailanyun places the first phase of its underwater data center into the ocean off the coast of Hainan in December 2022. Read more: What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. 5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. High School As Renovation Work Continues -- DEP Sets Aug.

Conservation

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

Humans can get sick from Vibrio by eating infected seafood such as oysters, unwittingly swallowing a mouthful of ocean water or exposing an open wound to the sea. This movement accelerated in 2023 and 2024, when deaths linked to V. Illnesses fall into two categories: cholera and noncholera vibriosis. For instance, V.

Ocean

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The GreenDrill site sat on the frozen edge of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, or NEGIS, a massive, moving tongue of ice that drains 12 to 16 percent of the ice sheet into the ocean. The mission was to collect sediment cores from the ocean floor. Upended and laid atop the contiguous U.S., Approximately 5,500,000,000,000 tons.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Accelerating sea level rise, ocean acidification and loss of major ice sheets also continue apace, with profound consequences for the planet. Extreme climate-related disastersincluding heatwaves, storms, droughts, wildfires and floodingare worsening, taking a fearsome toll on people, the economy and ecosystems.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

As swarms of salmon migrate north to Oregon along the Klamath River, youth from across the region’s indigenous tribes kayak south through northern California to the Pacific Ocean — a 300-mile celebratory journey that would not have been possible just a year ago. What’s changed? ” Before 2024, experts at the U.S

Endangered Species Act