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Shading the Great Barrier Reef from the sun might slow bleaching-induced coral decline

Frontiers

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Rob Lachlan As ocean temperatures rise, corals can lose their color due to heat stress. The latter is one of the interventions that researchers in the RRAP Cooling and Shading program are working on.

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Peek Inside a Deep-Sea Research Vessel

Ocean Conservancy

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Scientists strive for negative emissions

A Greener Life

New Solid Carbon technology might be able to lock climate-warming carbon dioxide below ocean bedrock. A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Basalt is a porous rock formed from cooling lava. By Dr Kate Moran.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? First, after carbon dioxide emissions cease, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels begin to decrease, as they are absorbed by natural processes and sinks in the oceans and on land. But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions?

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The Stream, June 8, 2022: Drought in California Weighs Heavily on Rural Communities

Circle of Blue

Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water. While other commodity crops like soy and corn are almost entirely cultivated with genetically modified seeds, consumers have historically opposed the use of the technology for wheat because it is directly consumed by people, rather than livestock.

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Emergency? Part 3

Legal Planet

There are many forms of carbon capture, including nature-based (in trees, soil, wetlands, ocean, regenerative agriculture, etc.), All of that is changing – the price is dropping as the technology improves, cheaper and more efficient catalysts and processes are being invented, and efficiency and size are improving.

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

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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