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

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The price tag? $13 Farmers may stand their ground for now, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s projections for sea level rise bode poorly for low lying cropland in the Delmarva Peninsula, Hyde County, NC, and Beaufort County, SC. NOAA forecasts a 1-foot rise in relative sea level by 2050 and a 3-foot rise by 2100.

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NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities

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The data, available for free online, can help track air quality indicators, heavy metals in air, dust, and other atmospheric components which can affect human health. Associate Professor of Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. lborkowski.

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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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The federal agencies responsible for more than 200 hatchery programs — including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Records obtained from NOAA show that over the past five years, dozens of hatchery programs have fallen short of their typical production levels, some by more than half.

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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. NOAA – Hydrographic Services Review Panel Meeting (Sept.

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ESA Policy News: September 13, 2021

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $1.24 NOAA also receives $765 climate adaptation and resilience. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as $120 million for the NOAA Civilian Conservation Corps and $500 million for to the Bureau of the Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps. NSF also receives $3.43

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