National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Previous entries have examined topics such as groundwater recharge and water banking and leasing. The webinar is the latest installment in the NALC’s “Western Water” Webinar Series, which highlights pressing water law issues in the Western United States.

2013

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

In an extraordinary move, the government even froze the bank accounts of green banks that had already received money from the government, with little or no effort to provide a legal justification. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Smyrna, Delaware—Bald eagles descended to pose on the banks and boulders on the mudflats. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 Shorebirds bobbed in shallow pools. Bullfrogs burped from creeks. They all spend a portion of their lives in wetlands.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 13, 2025

Unless we stop them. all while being told by the carjacker they arent taking anything they shouldnt take And like a car-jacking, if and when we rescue these agencies from the chop shop, real damage will be done.

Government

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

Subscribe Top Posts & Pages Using the pollution load index to evaluate rooftop harvested rainwater metal(loid) contamination in environmental justice communities If Energy Star goes away, finding energy efficient appliances will be harder. Here are some tips Can solar and geothermal energy help a church and its neighbors wean off fossil fuels?

Recycling

Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

The night before he robbed a bank with a fake gun and was arrested. The US government was testing bombs over the Nevada desert, and even more potent bombs in and near islands in the Pacific Ocean, where residents have been forced to leave. Everything is in chaos. The reason is almost too wild to be true.

Atmosphere

New Scientist

JULY 23, 2025

Banks TARS and its fellow robots, Interstellar (2014) If you were journeying through a wormhole to distant star systems on a desperate quest to find a new home for humanity, you could do a lot worse for companionship than a cuboid robot capable of surprising shape-shifting feats and complete with a customisable humor setting.

2014

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In many ways, the ocean is “ground zero” for the plastic pollution crisis. It is so vast, yet plastics have been found in every corner of the ocean —from the deepest trench to the most remote Arctic ice sheets. So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean? So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean?

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 5, 2022

From “Under the Sea” to “Part of Your World,” this fin -credible 1989 animated production boasts a cast with some characters based on real ocean species … but, I have to say, some of them might be surprising. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Is Sebastian really a crab?

Ocean

Scientific American

JULY 30, 2025

The bombardment of the surrounding territory with portions of the Farmers’ National Bank seldom fails to rouse from slumber even the soundly-sleeping tillers of the soil.” They went out and sailed all around where the Maelstrom was said to be, but the sea was as smooth as any other part of the German ocean.

2001

Inside Climate News

AUGUST 1, 2022

Despite the risks of building on barrier islands, developers kept constructing homes on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Now, as sea level rises and storms become more frequent and powerful, the famed vacation spot is fighting an increasingly difficult battle to keep from washing away. By Gilbert M.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

According to the World Bank, “Mexico’s geographic characteristics make it a highly vulnerable country to the adverse impacts of climate change. Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.”

Paris Agreement

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2021

How much do you really know about the ocean? Here is your chance to test your knowledge with our ocean trivia quiz. Love ocean content? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. 2. What is the fastest fish in the ocean? Blue whales aren’t just the biggest animals alive in the ocean. 3 hearts. ©

Ocean

Circle of Blue

MAY 17, 2023

Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall in Myanmar earlier this week, is tied for the strongest storm ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean. The Lead According to the World Bank, nearly 88 percent of water in Morocco, one of the world’s most water-scarce countries, is used for agriculture, Morocco World News reports. The DMZ, which is 2.5

2023

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. So, the plastics that escape to our ocean are like a slow motion oil spill that is happening every day, all around the world. This spill is a pervasive threat to ocean life and coastal communities.

Fossil Fuels

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. Never miss an update.

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean. Photo by Derrick Z.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 The biggest US bank investors in fossil fuels? “At

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 4, 2022

The ocean is filled with a wide variety of organisms that employ different strategies to survive and thrive in the marine environment. One way ocean animals eat is through filter feeding. Although it may seem odd, some of the biggest ocean animals feed on some of the smallest critters of the sea.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2023

The BBC interviewed people on the banks of the Nile who no longer had running water. The change is already apparent in the world’s oceans. Water temperatures at the ocean surface are now the highest since satellite records began. Not all neighborhoods in the capital have experienced water cuts.

2023

PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

Recovering salmon populations are transferring critical nutrients from the ocean into the forests along the Elwha’s banks, enriching the entire ecosystem. Ten years after the largest dam removal in history—on the Elwha River, in Washington State—scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ecological rebirth.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

Now, as I am preparing for the Our Ocean Conference in Palau—one of the small island states being heavily affected by rising sea levels—those thoughts remain at the forefront of my mind. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In many ways, the ocean is “ground zero” for the plastic pollution crisis. It is so vast, yet plastics have been found in every corner of the ocean —from the deepest trench to the most remote Arctic ice sheets. So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean? So, it’s normal to wonder, how much trash is in the ocean?

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Barrier islands , such as North Carolina’s Outer Banks, are thin stretches of land that run parallel to the shoreline and can change form based on wind and wave energy. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

Sea Level

Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2022

s Outer Banks. Read the full story in the Washington Post. Buyers, many from out of state, continue to gobble up oceanfront real estate where three homes have collapsed this year along N.C.’s Scientists and government officials say climate change is likely to continue to exacerbate erosion.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 29, 2021

See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As I watch Noodle day in and day out, I realize there are some boneless ocean creatures who might teach this prophetic pug how to make the best of things when life gives you no bones. © Schmidt Ocean Institute. Sea Slug. ©

Ocean

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2024

Labeling fossil fuel activities as sustainable is like including a harpooned whale under Ocean Wise, or describing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as nut-free. Case in point: in the last few years, banks have been making “sustainable” loans to fossil fuel companies.

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

AUGUST 1, 2021

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. An obvious option is to plant more trees, which brings other ecological benefits.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

Ocean

Physics World

APRIL 19, 2022

NASA should send a probe to Uranus within the coming decade as well as develop a craft to see if Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus harbours life in its interior ocean. The second highest-priority large-class mission is the Enceladus Orbilander, which would study the Saturnian satellite’s interior ocean and search for evidence of life.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 12, 2023

In early 1973, a group of scientists published an article in the journal Nature reflecting on a research expedition they had taken the year before, in an area of the Pacific Ocean some 600 miles from Hawaii known as the North Pacific Gyre. billion metric tons of plastics—enough plastic to cover all land on earth in a layer of plastics bags.

Ocean

Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Amazon Rainforest is home to the longest river on Earth that originates high in the Andes mountains as glacial melt and then crosses the entire continent to drain into the Atlantic Ocean. Populations on the east bank have a gray throat, whereas populations on the west bank have a black throat. Birds of a Feather.

Rainforest

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The effort is being led by Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, and the Ministry for Environment and Forestry, with support from the World Bank and local NGOs. billion metric tonnes of carbon, according to the World Bank. The figure used to be much higher, however.

Sea Level

Cresforum

MAY 16, 2022

Plastics Manufacturing Offers Opportunities for Global Emissions Reductionism ,” authored by George David Banks, CRES Forum Policy Fellow. ocean plastics, litter), those costs flow largely from the inability or unwillingness of countries to manage it. The post New Analysis from CRES Forum’s Dave Banks Highlights U.S.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

The federal government needs to set rules to make sure private investments from our banks and pension funds are moved away from polluting investments and into green solutions that cut emissions – but has not yet done so. Incredibly, Canada is considering green guidelines that would even allow oilsands investments.

Fossil Fuels

PBS Nature

JUNE 12, 2023

Recovering salmon populations are transferring critical nutrients from the ocean into the forests along the Elwha’s banks, enriching the entire ecosystem. Ten years after the largest dam removal in history—on the Elwha River, in Washington State—scientists are chronicling an inspiring story of ecological rebirth.

Ocean