Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2025

Similar to the advisory opinion request to the IACtHR, the request submitted to the AfCHPR details how climate change worsens existing inequalities, disproportionately impacting women, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly, Indigenous groups, environmental human rights defenders, and victims of natural disasters.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Working with NOAA, towns and cities as well as rural communities and counties take science-informed actions to prepare for a changing environment and enhance their resilience to climate change and sea level rise.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

They also represent the US in international fisheries and conservation meetings- vital, because many of the species of conservation concern dont stay within the political boundaries of human nations. Notably, the NOAA-administered system of fisheries management gives local communities a seat at the table.

Ocean

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

billion to combat sea level rise. HF 1900 would continue the use of state lottery funds “for the public purpose of protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources.” billion for safe drinking water and groundwater, $1.5

Carbon Dioxide

Yale E360

JUNE 26, 2025

Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?

Carbon Emissions

Yale E360

JUNE 27, 2025

Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

New research finds that Greenlands ice sheet is cracking more rapidly than ever as it remains on track to increase sea levels by one meter by this centurys end. By 2100, the ice sheets melting is on track to increase sea levels by about one meter, and 10 meters by 2300. Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

trillion in flood mitigation value alone , a value that has grown more critical with sea level rise and increased frequency and intensity of storms and wildfires. Bush respectively signed into law the Clean Water Act and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act in 1989. trillion and $2.9 Photos by Derrick Z.

Endangered Species Act

Yale E360

JUNE 18, 2025

Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

[PaEN] -- Keep PA Beautiful Celebrating 35 Years Of Supporting Community Improvement Across Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- WGAL: Sara Mueller Has A Passion For Outdoors, Educating Next Generation At Wildlife Leadership Academy -- PA Wilds Accepting Nominations For PA Wilds Champions Until April 7; Awards Celebration July 24 -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, (..)

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Yale E360

JUNE 6, 2025

Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?

Carbon Emissions

Cool Green Science

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Scientists are studying the effects of sea-level rise on salt marshes, and two imperiled sparrow species. The post How Sea-level Rise Impacts Marsh Sparrows appeared first on Cool Green Science.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change. So if you have enough freshwater on land, then it balances out sea level. Picture credit: Jeeban Panthi.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Tier 1 shortage was triggered because the water level in Mead is projected to be 1,065 feet above sea level at the end of 2021 — 10 feet lower than the shortage threshold. Arizona will also draw on water it has stored in Mead due to conservation in previous years.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

C Acknowledge and repair harm from previously funded projects Sharing science As part of the action, a conservation biologist shared how she mourns the species she has spent her life studying. A biomedical researcher explained how climate warming increases the risks to humans from existing and novel pathogens.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The subsequent 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also recognizes the right of “everyone to take part in cultural life” and requires signatories to take the steps “necessary for the conservation, the development, and the diffusion of science and culture.” Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2023

A new, first-of-its-kind study suggests that global warming this century will cause more glacial melting and sea level rise than previously thought. Giant Catch in the Mekong Reveals Mysteries of Biodiversity Hot Spot — Fish tracking project builds the case for international conservation cooperation. On the Radar.

2023

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Anticipating the rate of sea level rise is particularly challenging due to uncertainties in the climate system.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

Carbon Emissions

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sea levels were quickly rising, and the rapid waters kept sediment from settling. However, when combined with climate change impacts like rising sea levels, the intensity of these threats becomes magnified.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. The first of these shortage tiers — at 1,075 feet above sea level — is expected to be breached next year.

2007

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

billion to combat sea level rise. The Nature Conservancy described the bond measure as “a significant milestone toward a safer and more sustainable future for California” and expressed gratitude to the Legislature for their work on this issue. Some of the notable investments include: $3.8

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2023

From droughts to wildfires to rising sea levels and torrential rains, the state has felt the effects of a changing climate in a variety of ways. In this blogpost, we will explore what vapor pressure deficit is, how it is affected by climate change, and its implications for California.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. She is a recent graduate from University of Southern California with a B.A. Never miss an update.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

Ocean

Washington Nature

MARCH 17, 2022

Molly Bogeberg is a Marine Conservation Manager with The Nature Conservancy in Washington. She came to TNC as a Sea Grant Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellow in 2014 after completing a M.S in Environmental Science at Washington State University.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

It represents the culmination of a long-sought alliance between major housing advocates like California YIMBY and conservation groups like The Nature Conservancy. AB 68 describes these “climate risk lands” as within high-severity wildfire and flood zones, or having a sea level rise risk according to the latest science.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. Let me start with five opinions that help make up the canon. The environmental side won most of these cases.

Clean Air Act

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 25, 2022

Conservation planners in an era of climate change attempt to model and predict outcomes of mitigation strategies for the near and distant future. Read the full story at JSTOR Daily.

Sea Level

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 12, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The gummy squirrel is about two feet long—large for a sea cucumber, which is typically four to 12 inches in length. This area is hard to explore because it is located approximately 16,000 feet below sea level.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. This level of warming would lead to devastating losses in habitats, increased risk of sea level rise in extreme heat and other weather impacts that would put many communities at risk. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Never miss an update. degrees by 2100.

Sea Level

Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Many communities are facing increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires, rising sea levels, more extreme rain, flooding, heat, and drought. c) The Nature Conservancy It’s important to note that climate change and resiliency planning will look different across Washington’s communities, too. C) The Nature Conservancy

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Few companies did so, however, posing great risk to investors and the economy: A 2015 Union of Concerned Scientists report on the threat to oil refineries from rising sea levels found that investors and taxpayers will likely bear the costs of future disasters if companies fail to disclose and manage these risks.

Regulations

Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. The post Advancing Ocean Climate Action at COP27 appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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