Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In Australia , many of the same areas that endured brutal bushfires in 2019 and 2020 are now drowning in record-setting rainfall. Australia smoldered during the epic “Black Summer” bush fires of 2019 and 2020. The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. This includes most of the eastern half of the country, the federal agency said.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The only region of cooling is the northern Atlantic, where climate models have long predicted just that due to a slowing of the Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation. The heating of the global ocean has been going on at a steady rate of nine zeta Joules per year for decades , which is 15 times the worldwide primary energy consumption.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 19, 2022

In less than two months, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release its outlook of the number of hurricanes making landfall in the United States in 2022. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Researchers found a large uptick in bloom severity from the early 1990s to 2019.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI.

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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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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels). F), let alone 1.5°C

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. Laut, "Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations", Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , vol. 2569, 2019. 27489-27492, 2000. 801-812, 2003. Rendiconti Lincei.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

People should be celebrating, not demonizing, modern increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Rare, exotic exceptions are anaerobic life forms dwelling at out-of-the-way places like ocean-bottom volcanic vents. Read more here.] We cannot overstate the importance of the gas. Without it, life doesn’t exist.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

At least nine atmospheric rivers blasted California between December 20th and January 15th, causing flooding and extensive damage, while also delivering much needed precipitation to our parched state. But during extreme events, like the recent atmospheric rivers, larger infrastructure investments are necessary. Measure W is working.

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Breezometer

MAY 26, 2022

So far during 2022, Southeast Asia has experienced relatively less haze due to an ongoing La Niña event, an oceanic weather pattern in the Pacific that ushered wetter weather to the region since late 2020. Air pollution knows no national borders and can drift across countries and even oceans. What Exactly Causes the Haze Smoke?

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. Northern shrimp, found in the northeast, are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a climate vulnerability assessment done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That fits with the last five years , which have seen an annual average of 18 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The previous summit, held in Madrid in 2019, ended in frustration with little progress on issues such as carbon financing or sharing climate burdens between nations. An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force.

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Earthava

APRIL 13, 2021

Blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus, make their homes in the planet’s vast open oceans where most migrate thousands of miles annually to feed, mate, and raise calves. There is also the Indian Ocean blue whale, Northern blue whale, and Pygmy blue whale. How Big Is A Blue Whale? One blue whale is approximately the weight of.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Individuals and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) jointly brought a legal challenge against the Directive RED II in 2019. Since then, gallons of water flowed under the bridge and the H 2 O-derived renewable energy evolved into two major outputs: hydropower and ocean energy. Ocean energy. So, is burning trees renewable?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The 24-month study process begins with the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, a team of scientists operating within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This scenario is a replication of the years 1988 to 2019, and represents hotter and drier conditions that have settled over the basin. Click To Tweet.

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Washington Nature

JULY 11, 2023

By Anya Blaney A childhood love of sea turtles led Jennifer Lee Clinchy to her life's work protecting the oceans and their inhabitants. © Jennifer Lee Clinchy However, Jennifer’s most transformational chapter unfolded during her tenure at the White House, where she played a pivotal role in shaping international ocean policies.

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Real Climate

MAY 12, 2021

Meanwhile, note that the factors listed above involve the whole Earth system: the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, the solid earth and lithosphere, and a full range of scales, from the city block and shoreline, to ice dynamics that change over kilometers, to GRD footprints, to the whole global ocean. 2020) or Sadai et al.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

In 2019 for example, WMO reported that more than 6.7 In 2019 for example, WMO reported that more than 6.7 This number is forecast to reach close to 22 million in 2019, up from 17.2 Australia’s bushfires, for example, will undoubtedly cause a jump in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere this year, and this affects us all.

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Washington Nature

MAY 26, 2023

by Lena Beck Dr. Ailene Ettinger joined TNC in 2019 as a Quantitative Ecologist. How is your work contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? Most recently, Dr. Ettinger has been focused on climate change mitigation research of on-the-ground efforts such as planting trees. How is equity showing up in your work?

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. We are seeing the consequences in bushfires, acidifying oceans and locust invasions – which could push millions of people in East Africa into hunger. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

MSIs remain some of nation’s leaders in producing BIPOC graduates with STEM degrees. For instance, 30 percent of Black Americans majoring in STEM fields graduate from a historically Black college or university (HBCU).

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HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A separate UCS analysis back in 2019 also captured the inequitable burdens of pollution from road vehicles. According to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2023 alone there have been 25 confirmed climate disaster events affecting the United States with costs exceeding $1 billion each. Source: UCS.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

For Urban Ocean and the cities they partner with, it is just the beginning. Many cities around the world struggle to create systems to manage their waste, and that can sometimes mean that trash ends up as pollution in our ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. OK, on to methane in the environment: The headline here – whether you’re talking about atmospheric concentrations, climate impacts, or emissions – is that there is a lot less methane than CO 2 , but it’s a more potent climate heater and it’s increasing faster.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2022

Accompanied by artists’ impressions of volcanic landscapes or storms raging above shimmering oceans, such work makes distant planets feel somehow more real. One is transmission spectroscopy, which looks at the spectrum of starlight that has passed through an exoplanet’s atmosphere. Transmission spectroscopy is limited too.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. Other report highlights include the cascading impacts of warming on Arctic ecosystems: The Arctic is experiencing high rates of ocean acidification, with implications for marine food chains. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Plastics are harmful pollutants that burden our economy and threaten the health of our environment including our wildlife, rivers, lakes and oceans. The CEPA listing is the first step in Canada’s efforts to curb the fatal flow of plastic into our oceans, and one we’re pleased to support in court.”. Background.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 to remove a section of the 70-year-old pipeline in Wisconsin. ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5 A federal judge ordered the energy giant Enbridge Inc. Looking Ahead.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2019, over 200 environmental activists were killed, according to data from the advocacy group Global Witness. The Global Witness data found that 40 percent of all victims in 2019 were Indigenous, and more than a third of the attacks between 2015 and 2019 targeted Indigenous peoples. ———. Consider this chain of events.

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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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