Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Justice team is proud to announce the first Ocean Justice Community Grants cohort. Climate change and ocean injustice present dual crises that disproportionately impact marginalized coastal and ocean communities. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The ocean has absorbed nearly 33% of all greenhouse gas emissions and around 90% of the excess heat produced through climate change. It may seem like a good thing all around that the ocean is protecting us in this way, but the ocean actually pays a hefty price. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s been more than two years since Ocean Conservancy’s Florida Conservation Program launched Shores Forward , our flagship initiative to create positive change for our ocean across Florida. We now bring these successes to Tallahassee where we advocate and help craft legislation that protects our ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 11, 2023

Our ocean is a magical place, and it’s easy to become mesmerized by all it has to offer. our ocean and its incredible wildlife. Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Dive in and explore.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. Plastic pollution is a social justice issue, a climate issue and an ocean issue. Want to learn more about Ocean Justice?

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 9, 2022

As our ocean connects us, so does the need for solutions to protect it. Ocean Conservancy research has shown that one of the main ways to reduce the flow of plastic to the ocean is by improving urban recycling and waste collection systems. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When I’m out in the ocean, I’m obsessed by everything I see. Yet so much ocean life is so small, I might miss them entirely. I’m talking about plankton—the tiny plants and animals that make up 90% of the mass of all marine life in the ocean and play an extremely important role in the health of our planet. Love ocean content?

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 18, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. She set the gold standard for our state, our country and our ocean by leading the effort to fight for robust funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). billion for NOAA. © Rafeed Hussain.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

In the US, when we check our local weather forecast, when our communities are recovering from an extreme weather event, or when our fisherfolk are at sea catching food, we are benefitting from the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.”

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. Satellite-derived trends in EEI compared to estimates from changes in ocean heat (Loeb et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 2, The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania released new results and analysis of a federally-funded community science study that produced Philadelphia’s highest-resolution heat map to date. For more information, visit TNC-PA’s Urban Conservation in Pennsylvania webpage. Click Here to become a member.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But in the rogue EPA that is the Supreme Court, packed to an ultra-conservative majority by presidents with little or no concern for the environment, science and the fatal toll of pollution seem to take a back seat to concerns about the unfettered freedom of polluters to profit regardless of their harmful business practices.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 31, 2023

A coral reef restoration project off iconic Waikīkī Beach has been recommended for a $9 million grant by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Habitat Conservation.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. It doesn’t seem to matter that the new oil and gas leases will make the climate crisis worse and harm our ocean. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 25, 2023

Enter a true star of the ocean: algae! There are currently estimated to be at least 72,500 algal species on Earth, and scientists have calculated that these organisms have produced about half of all of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere via photosynthesis. Love ocean content? Those grazers go on to feed other marine species.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Fortunately, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has numerous coastal resilience projects that help protect, preserve and fortify fragile ecosystems like barrier islands.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

of the Interior, in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Council on Environmental Quality, invites public comment regarding the development of the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas , a new tool that will be used to reflect baseline information on the lands and waters that are conserved or restored.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

That rule requires at least 60 million acres of our ocean be made available for offshore oil and gas drilling before any offshore wind leases can be sold. It doesn’t seem to matter that the new oil and gas leases will make the climate crisis worse and harm our ocean. That’s why Ocean Conservancy supports H.R.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ten students had just listened to me explain the cascade of negative effects associated with the increasing acidification of ocean waters. The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For more than 35 years, Ocean Conservancy® has mobilized millions of volunteers through the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC), removing more than 344 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways around the globe. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Global trade was picking up steam, with goods moving across our seas in ocean freighters. At the time, the introduction of the ESA and, similarly, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), were innovative solutions to protect wildlife amid this activity in our ocean.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It eliminates or slashes funding for clean energy and energy efficiency efforts throughout the Department of Energy and defunds a national Climate Corps , modeled after the New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps. It blocks funding for state net zero programs and tighter building energy codes. billion per year in adjusted dollars.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

We need to better understand these changes, and to adapt biodiversity conservation strategies to take them into consideration. Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Conservation easements can facilitate a transition of cropland to salt marsh, providing numerous ecosystem services and up to 90% of the market value for farms. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Intellectual Coherence.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 A recent analysis of six Michigan communities released by activists and conservation groups urged officials to adopt a strategy to mitigate the state’s water-affordability crisis. ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 28, 2023

There’s been much debate swirling in the news of the federal government’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget process, including the budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 28, 2022

The blog was co-written by Black Surf Santa Cruz founder Esabella Bonner and board secretary Rachel Kippen whose organization partnered with Ocean Conservancy. Bonner founded Black Surf Santa Cruz in 2020 to make ocean spaces more inclusive and welcoming to BILPOC community members. We are about to paddle out.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is fitting that Ocean Conservancy is kicking off Black History Month by spotlighting a Black-led organization near our headquarters on the ancestral lands of the Anacostans and the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples—more commonly known as Washington, D.C. Just how deep? Want to help Blacks of the Chesapeake recover their beaches?

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 15, 2022

One of Ocean Conservancy’s goals each year is to help ensure that our nation’s premier ocean agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is appropriately funded in the federal budget. The post Funding Brighter Future for NOAA appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 25, 2021

Coast Guard icebreaker Healy will travel from the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska through Arctic waters to the northern Atlantic Ocean. In the past, the Arctic Ocean–and the Northwest Passage in particular—was often choked with thick sea ice that made maritime voyages risky and arduous, even at the most favorable times of the year.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 24, 2022

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2022

This is why I was so excited to have the opportunity to join Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) and the Rozalia Project for a cleanup of ghost gear in Maine aboard their 60-foot sailing vessel, the American Promise. The post Setting Sail to Collect Ghost Gear in Maine appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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