Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 6, 2021

Seaweed can play a huge role in fighting climate change by absorbing carbon emissions, regenerating marine ecosystems, creating biofuel and renewable plastics as well as generating marine protein. Read the full story in Time.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

Carbon removal will be central to decarbonization efforts in the next several decades. We have a rapidly diminishing capacity in the atmosphere and oceans to absorb carbon emissions, and extreme weather events from the past few years make clear that the carbon emissions that have already occurred are causing real harm globally.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

They’re called Scope 3 emissions, and they are key to understanding the big picture of a company’s impact on the environment. First, let me explain the three “scopes” of carbon emissions. Scope 1 emissions come from power plants, oil rigs and other sources directly owned or controlled by a company.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Over the years, these reports have analyzed the research to confirm that global warming is occurring, that humans are the cause and that we need to reduce carbon emissions to address it. What does this mean for the ocean? Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2022

A lot has been written about the efforts of universities to clean up their own carbon emissions. It will add new departments in oceans and environmental behavior, environment & ecosystems, climate science, and global environmental policy. I want to begin by lamenting the lack of systematic information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By recognizing and documenting the threat of climate change to cultural heritage, we add one more important layer of rights-based obligations to hold nations accountable for reducing carbon emissions. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 13, 2024

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a strange, diaphanous balloon drifts by. Taking inspiration from nature isn’t new, but marine biomimetics is relatively nascent partly because just 5% of the ocean has been explored. Meanwhile, animals such as the ram’s horn squid have inspired better ways to explore the ocean itself.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

With empirical data and more and better modeling, it has become clear that, to first approximation, the eventual anthropogenic warming from carbon dioxide is tied to the cumulative emissions. This figure is from the AR6 SPM: The relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and temperature (SPM AR6).

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

What is the AMOC The AMOC is a complex system of ocean currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity. This process drives a global oceanic conveyor belt, redistributing heat and influencing weather patterns.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 27, 2023

Or maybe your mind takes a darker turn, imagining a colossal creature lurking in the depths of the ocean, capable of swallowing you whole. The elevated acidity of the ocean accelerates the dissolution of calcium carbonate and reduces aragonite saturation , posing a significant threat to these organisms. Giant clam ( T.

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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. There, we can tackle shipping emissions, which are projected to generate 18% of all global emissions by 2050. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. The math of rising carbon emissions and the rapidly dwindling carbon budget to stay below 1.5˚C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Ocean temperatures are at record highs in the Atlantic, including along the coast of Florida , triggering marine heatwaves and causing harm to marine species and ecosystems. Extreme rainfall and flooding are drowning towns and cities from India to Japan and Korea to the Northeast U.S. Uncontrolled fires are also burning in Greece.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2021 followed the distressing trend of excessive heat, as the sixth hottest year on record (a tie with 2018). Photo is author’s own. Last year brought the dangers of extreme heat to the forefront.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Net atmospheric warming is problematic for a number of reasons – it leads to crop and vegetation stress which threatens our food security, it causes more intense dry seasons which lead to bigger wildfires that cause severe economic and environmental damage, and it leads to rising oceans levels which threaten existing infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

One important win came when the Dutch court ruled that Shell must cut carbon emissions from both its operations and the oil and gas products the company sells. This is true for a wide variety of impacts, including heat extremes on land and in the ocean, floods, regional drought, and wildfire.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Their projects range from diverting the Mississippi river to protect New Orleans from flooding, to breeding “ super coral ” resistant to bleaching in warming oceans. To understand the mindset of geoengineers, Kolbert meets physicist Klaus Lackner , founder of the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 22, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. No less galling than the inaction on HFO and scrubbers were the decisions on short-term GHG emissions—though a shift in the winds may be coming at last. The easiest is to slow the vessel down, reducing both fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Stay connected.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 25, 2023

When you think of BIG ocean animals , you probably think of blue whales or whale sharks. But, there is a whole class of ocean animals that we should also be thinking of when it comes to size—marine invertebrates. And, when you focus on just the ocean—invertebrates constitute 92% of life in our ocean. Love ocean content?

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Acoel

AUGUST 14, 2023

On the other hand, those demanding unrealistic immediate zero carbon emissions have made engaging in a non-partisan dialogue on how to move the needle on addressing climate changes more difficult. Efforts to advance alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, etc.), So what’s next? Some argue this is all just part of a cycle.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. It is within this context that Ocean Conservancy releases Zero-Carbon for Shipping: Sailing Carbon-free along North America’s West Coast. If nothing is done to clean up shipping, its carbon emissions are projected to jump by almost 130% by 2050.

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

This year the account funded projects in forest-based carbon sequestration, “blue carbon” (carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems), and climate-smart agriculture. This is dedicated funding for nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Small Islands, Large Oceans: Voices on the Frontlines of Climate Change.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 17, 2021

Stop expanding and subsidizing fossil fuels and nuclear energy, and reduce Canada’s carbon emissions by 60% by 2030 to do our fair share globally; Ensure a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, with a plan that supports workers, communities, and marginalized groups in the just and fair transition to a sustainable economy.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2023

See more wonderful ocean animals! Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Crabs are crustaceans —living all over the Earth in the ocean, freshwater and on land. The post 5 Species of Crab to Meet appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 2, 2021

To pursue this further, Lo did a PhD in atmosphere, oceans and climate at the University of Reading , UK. Another is to work towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, by minimizing the distance products have to travel, choosing the greenest transport methods and shipping each product in the smallest box possible.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

found that the companies—down to 88 due to mergers—were responsible for about 55 percent of ocean acidification between 1880 and 2015. They found that 48 percent of the increase in the region’s fire-friendly conditions since 1901—specifically drier land and vegetation—can be traced to the 88 companies’ carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The potential for trees to capture carbon emissions through photosynthesis seems crucial to the recent upsurge. In this case, as funds are more flexible, they will reportedly be used to create a marine PES system, as a way to pay coastal populations to protect the ocean. Debt-for-nature swaps in Costa Rica.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When I’m out in the ocean, I’m obsessed by everything I see. Yet so much ocean life is so small, I might miss them entirely. I’m talking about plankton—the tiny plants and animals that make up 90% of the mass of all marine life in the ocean and play an extremely important role in the health of our planet. Love ocean content?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

UCS modeled the impacts of reduced emissions on public health As part of our research in the new Accelerating Clean Energy Ambition report , UCS undertook analyses to study the impacts of reducing carbon emissions on public health. Combined with our total health benefits, we see huge savings when we reduce emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The ocean bed has a diverse landscape with plenty of challenges, but dealing with a single entity—the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)—for federally controlled waters does have advantages over the potential patchwork of landowners for land-based transmission.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea —hosting an abundant variety of sea life and crucial habitat for about 25% of all ocean species. Soft corals have soft bodies that can move and flow with the ocean currents. Soft corals do not have hard calcium carbonate skeletons like hard corals do.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. I was lucky to visit the Grain de Sail on May 18, 2022, midway through its stay in New York, coinciding with yet another virtual meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) sharpening discussions on shipping emissions. Never miss an update. Enter Your Email.loading.

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Earth 911

AUGUST 4, 2023

The UN’s International Maritime Association reported in 2020 that the shipping industry — the ships. The post Earth911 Podcast: Ship It Zero Aims for a Decarbonized Shipping Industry by 2030 appeared first on Earth911.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans. White House: President Biden issued an executive order setting a course for the federal government to become carbon neutral by 2050. But Is It Burning Less Carbon? – Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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