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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

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He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. The price tag? $13 NOAA forecasts a 1-foot rise in relative sea level by 2050 and a 3-foot rise by 2100.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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NOAA releases the annual Arctic Report Card. This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. Executive Branch.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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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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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . NOAA also received $20 for climate change education activities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The companion Senate reconciliation bill is stalled.

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ESA Policy News: August 16, 2021

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President Biden announces USDA research and NOAA nominees. The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. trillion reconciliation package. Executive Branch.

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ESA Policy News: September 13, 2021

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. NSF also receives $3.43 The New York Times.

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