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Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis at Our Ocean 2025

Ocean Conservancy

The ocean absorbs about 90% of the excess heat generated by climate change, leading to rising sea temperatures and, among other things, sea level rise due to the melting of the polar ice caps, including Arctic ice. The increased CO 2 , which creates warmer temperatures in the atmosphere, is absorbed by the ocean.

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8 New Videos Feature Ecosystem And Community-Focused Research By PA Sea Grant; Research Grant Proposals Due Feb. 14

PA Environment Daily

The production was made possible through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Since 2012, Pennsylvania Sea Grant has invested over $5.7 Deadline for pre-proposals is Friday, February 14, 2025. The videos are available online via the programs website , and YouTube Channel.

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Bolivia has high solar power potential but faces challenges scaling up

A Greener Life

Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition. The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands.

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Taking Stock Ahead of UN Climate Conference: Five Things to Watch for at COP28 in Dubai

Union of Concerned Scientists

The needs are immense and crushing for low-income nations already reeling from billions of dollars of damages from extreme floods, drought, sea level rise and other climate impacts, as well as a human toll that is incalculable. That includes significantly ratcheting up their NDCs for 2035, which are due by 2025.

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‘Project 2025’ Would Be Disastrous for Our Nation and Our Climate

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” is a dangerous and detailed guide to undermining our democracy and a broadside attack on our health and well-being, not to mention our economic prosperity. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded.’

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WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

The extended permit gives Delaware River Partners, an affiliate of New Fortress Energy, until June 2025 to build a dock on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, Gloucester County. She adds that she fears more applications for the transport of LNG will be filed – there is another proposal for an export terminal in Chester [Delaware County].

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STILL FIDDLING, AT 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, AS THE WORLD WARMS, FLOODS AND BURNS: OCEANS’ SURVIVAL NEED FASTER SITING AND TRANSMISSION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM PROJECTS

Vermont Law

levels continue to increase faster than at any know. sea level rise. atmospheric CO2 levels. the Investment and Production Tax Credits (ITC PTC) for, in part, OSW, but projects must begin construction by January 1, 2025. . Since my 2012 “Fiddling as the World Floods and Burns” warnings, . cean acidity.

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