National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Addresses Rising CO2 Levels
Environment + Energy Leader
JUNE 6, 2023
Industries dependent on marine resources, such as fisheries and tourism, face significant threats from this environmental degradation.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to Release Plans for Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary
Endangered Species Law
JUNE 29, 2023
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) anticipates releasing the Draft Designation Documents for the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.
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Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The ocean is also experiencing record-breaking temperatures and more frequent marine heatwaves. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Up to this point, the ocean has been our greatest guardian against extreme heat and catastrophic climate changes.
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New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”
Real Climate
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years. Figure adapted from Caesar et al., Nature 2018.
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Hot ocean temperatures to fuel above-average Atlantic hurricane season
New Scientist
AUGUST 10, 2023
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now joins other forecasters in projecting an above-average number of hurricanes will form across the Atlantic this year
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A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere
Inside Climate News
JANUARY 18, 2024
Bottom trawling disturbs the ocean floor, researchers found. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans.
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The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere – but first we need an internet of deep ocean sensors to track the effects
Environmental News Bits
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
by Peter de Menocal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above.
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Astronomers define new class of potentially habitable ocean worlds
Physics World
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Hot, ocean-covered exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life and may be more common than planets that are Earth-like in size, temperature and atmospheric composition. However, it has so far proven difficult to detect atmospheric signatures from Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
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Will sinking tonnes of wood into the ocean help tackle climate change?
New Scientist
AUGUST 9, 2023
Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work
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Plastic aerosols in the atmosphere could affect the climate
Physics World
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Tiny particles of plastic in the atmosphere can affect Earth’s climate, according to Laura Revell at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and colleagues. Yet even as airborne microplastics become an ever-larger part of the mix of atmospheric aerosols, their radiative influence is still virtually unknown. Altitude matters.
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Scientists Are Trying to Pull Carbon Out of the Ocean to Combat Climate Change
Scientific American
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Instead of sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some scientists are looking to capture it from the oceans
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Ocean Justice Requires Climate Action for All
Ocean Conservancy
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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. Check out our new Justice40 interim report to learn more.
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How is Ocean Warming Impacting the Shipping Industry?
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger.
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The Lego-like way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere
Environmental News Bits
DECEMBER 8, 2023
For decades, scientists have tried to figure out ways to reverse climate change by pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it underground.
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4 Reasons Why a Government Shutdown is Bad for Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down. putting undue stress on people, our economy and our ocean. A government shutdown will put a hard stop on NOAA’s ocean research.
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Microplastics in French mountain air may have crossed Atlantic Ocean
New Scientist
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Microplastics travelled thousands of kilometres across oceans and continents in a fast-moving layer of the atmosphere before being captured on a mountain in the French Pyrenees
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A Nobel pursuit
Real Climate
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The key aspects were the inclusion of water vapour feedback as temperatures increased, and the use of ‘convective adjustment’ to maintain stability of the lower atmospheric column. The basic issue stems from the different timescales of the ocean and atmosphere. Fred Singer, before his turn to the dark side).
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Study Pinpoints Links Between Melting Arctic Ice and Summertime Extreme Weather in Europe
Inside Climate News
MARCH 1, 2024
New research shows how last year’s warming melted ice in Greenland that increased flows of fresh, cold water into the North Atlantic, upsetting ocean currents in ways that lead to atmospheric changes.
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Captura eyes commercial ocean carbon capture project following $21.5m investment
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 23, 2024
in fresh funding to support the commercialisation of its ocean-based carbon capture technology, which promises to boost the ocean’s capacity to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. California-based carbon removals specialist Captura has confirmed it has secured $21.5m
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Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Physics World
AUGUST 1, 2021
Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. Therefore, most proposed routes to net zero also bank on our ability to capture carbon – at source or directly from the atmosphere – and store it securely over the long term.
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Executive Actions to Ensure Safe and Responsible Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Research in the United States
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S. In the U.S.,
2021 Was One of the Deadliest and Costliest Years for Climate Disasters
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2022
UCS Climate and Energy program policy director Rachel Cleetus breaks down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest report on costly, dangerous climate-related disasters in 2021.
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It’s Not Too Late to Prevent Mass Extinction for Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
MAY 4, 2022
A new study examined what the ocean will look like in the future if we keep burning all the fossil fuels we can lay our hands on. And if we do, the future for the ocean is grim indeed. The researchers applied powerful Earth system models that faithfully recreate the behavior of the ocean, land and atmosphere to game out the future.
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Announcing Ocean Conservancy’s First Ocean Justice Community Grants Awardees
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. Stay Current.
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Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs
Successful Green
MARCH 17, 2021
As atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11 drop, the global ocean should become a source of the chemical by the middle of next century, a new MIT study predicts. The world’s oceans are a vast repository... The post Oceans may start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs appeared first on successful GREEN.
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The ocean may be storing more carbon than estimated in earlier studies
Environmental News Bits
JANUARY 25, 2024
The ocean’s capacity to store atmospheric carbon dioxide is some 20% greater than the estimates contained in the latest IPCC report. Plankton gobble up carbon dioxide and, as … Continue reading The ocean may be storing more carbon than estimated in earlier studies Read the full story from CNRS.
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Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezing temperatures
New Scientist
JANUARY 17, 2022
A model based on Earth’s oceans and atmosphere explains how Mars could have been cold and wet 3 billion years ago
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Analysis: Moving the dial on ocean-based CO2 removal
A Greener Life
APRIL 1, 2022
Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The ocean as a carbon sink.
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Starship launch success: SpaceX's third flight reaches space - latest
New Scientist
MARCH 14, 2024
Starship carried out tests before attempting to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere to splash down in the ocean The world’s most powerful rocket launched from Texas and reached an altitude of more than 230 kilometres.
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Detroit Flooding Previews Risks from a Warming Climate
Circle of Blue
JULY 1, 2021
Warmer global temperatures cause more water to evaporate from Earth’s surface and oceans, meaning that there is more fuel for storms. It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall. Notorious4life.
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El Niño is coming, and ocean temps are already at record highs – that can spell disaster for fish and corals
Environmental News Bits
MAY 24, 2023
by Dillon Amaya, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration It’s coming. Winds are weakening along the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Heat is building beneath the ocean surface. By July, most forecast models agree that the climate system’s biggest player – El Niño – will return for the first time in nearly four years.
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What’s the Role of the Land Carbon Sink in Achieving US Climate Goals?
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 10, 2024
Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. Both gradual and abrupt thaw can release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further exacerbating warming.
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Coastal Restoration Helps the Ocean Help Us
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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Methane Levels Hit New High, While the Cause of Rising Emissions Remains a Mystery
Yale E360
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Last year, atmospheric methane levels reached a grim new milestone, surpassing 1,900 parts per billion, the highest level in almost 40 years of record-keeping, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read more on E360 ?.
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Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada
PA Environment Daily
JULY 25, 2023
On June 30, Ocean Networks Canada's CEO Dr. Kate Moran was recognized for her contributions to support ocean and planet sustainability with her appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.
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How Is Climate Change Affecting Winter Storms in the US?
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The warming ocean is especially important. First, as we warm the ocean, this is creating a bigger temperature contrast with temperatures over the land when Arctic air plunges southward. Another factor is there is more evaporation from the land and ocean as the globe warms, so there is more water vapor in the atmosphere.
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Ocean Resources for Kids of All Ages
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. 2) How well do you know our ocean’s biggest creatures?
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How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean
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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New Exhibition Shows How We All Affect the Ocean
Academy of Natural Sciences
AUGUST 18, 2022
A new exhibition this summer and fall takes visitors on an exciting journey through our watersheds to understand how everyone’s actions on land affect the ocean, even if they don’t live down the Jersey Shore. . Ocean Bound , opening Saturday, Aug. Ocean Bound , opening Saturday, Aug. Ocean Bound is on view Aug.
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The water south of Greenland has been cooling, so what causes that?
Real Climate
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). Rahmstorf, S., Robinson, A., Feulner, M.E.
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IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean
Environmental News Bits
AUGUST 12, 2021
by Robert Kopp (Rutgers University) Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns in a new report.
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Developing Model Federal Laws to Facilitate Responsible Ocean CDR Research
Law Columbia
JUNE 15, 2022
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide—the most commonly emitted greenhouse gas—is now higher than at any time in at least the last 800,000 years and likely several million years. It will also be necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. law to different ocean CDR techniques.
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U.S. On Pace for Record Number of Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters
Yale E360
OCTOBER 12, 2021
has seen 18 weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion so far this year, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read more on E360 ?.
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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
Another clue indicating a shortcoming is if you look at the atmospheric CO 2 -concentrations over time to see how much impact the IPCC reports have had on the real policy-makers in the world (Figure below). The cause of our changing climate is the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that we have released into the air.
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