Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Disruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic. By Bob Berwyn A new study affirms that a critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents that shunt warm and cold water between the poles is “on course” to a tipping point.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Some of the CO2 will get slowly absorbed into the ocean over a long period of time, but the ocean will also gradually release some of the heat it has been absorbing. Changes in the oceans will continue over a long period of time. What about really long-term sea level rise? With warming between 1.5°

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The global average sea level is rising 2 inches per decade and speeding up, but in some regions, the rate is more than twice that fast.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 8, 2022

The ocean covers 71% of the planet and holds nearly 97% of the Earth’s water, and about 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. What is Bluetech? Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 1, 2022

by Jianjun Yin, University of Arizona Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world’s oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, fueling sea-level rise and contributing to climate disasters.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

High tides are part of the problem, but there’s another risk that has been slowly creeping up: sea level rise. Since 1880, average global sea levels have risen… Read more → East Coast has been experiencing hurricane-like flooding in recent days, with Georgia and the Carolinas getting the latest round.

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Scientific American

JUNE 26, 2023

A vast expanse of the Indian Ocean is a staggering 100 meters lower than the global average sea level because of a major dip in Earth’s gravity. Scientists now think they know the cause

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New Scientist

MARCH 19, 2024

2023 wasn't just the hottest year on record by far, it also saw record glacier loss, sea level rise, ocean heat and sea ice loss, says World Meteorological Organization report

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 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.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Coastal regions and small ocean islands face significant risks from rising sea levels due to climate change, because waters can flood and inundate low-lying land surfaces. Read the full story from the Geological Society of America. Read more →

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Legal Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

.” — NBC “Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6”— Washington Post “Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050, study warns.” – Washington Post “Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse, prompting warning from scientists.” –- CNN “Scientists discover an alarming change in (..)

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A Greener Life

MAY 23, 2022

Our oceans are acidifying. A new report has warned that the level of acidity in the world’s oceans is higher now than it has been for the past 26,000 years. ” How the oceans absorb carbon and store the heat. Oceans bear much of the brunt of the warming climate and increasing climate emissions.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the real ones in our world. Talk about a supervillain!

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ocean modelling suggests coastal cities around the world need to start preparing for several metres of sea level rise over the coming centuries

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 10, 2023

The trawling of thousands of satellite measurements using artificial intelligence has shown researchers that meltwater in tunnels beneath Greenland’s ice sheet causes it to change speed, and in some places, accelerate greatly towards the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Last summer while visiting family in Bogotá, Colombia, a city located 9,000 feet above sea level in the Andes, I noticed more plastics than during my visit a decade ago. 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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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. degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C, If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. But really, these invented figures can’t hold a candle to the ones in our future. Talk about a supervillain!

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up and living on the coast her whole life sparked her love for the ocean and the desire to protect it from a young age. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website. Never miss an update.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. Global sea levels were high during the Mesozoic period in which dinosaurs ruled the earth. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Mosasaurus. ©

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 6, 2022

High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, and cooling in that ocean over coming decades should therefore temporarily compensate for the city's sea level rise

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Here we start by taking the Greenland mass loss rate into the ocean, times the temperature difference between the meltwater and the water it replaces. For the part entering the ocean as ice, we must also consider that to melt ice requires energy. Greenland ice melt. or other estimates). References. Trenberth, K. & Fasullo, J.

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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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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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Scientific American

APRIL 11, 2023

Sea levels off the southeastern U.S. have risen more than a centimeter a year over the past decade—about triple the global average—and the effects on communities near the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean already are being observed

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 9, 2021

Here are a number of the lowlights: It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. My emphasis.).

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 28, 2023

New research shows a fast-acting climate connection between poles that may be driven by wind rather than by ocean currents.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As sea levels rise, ghost forests expand. Sea level rise is causing ghost forests to expand along the east coast, with hotspots in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina. Ghost forests, then, are an intermediate stage in the Atlantic coastline’s quickening transition from land to ocean.

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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.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It’s an interesting situation if there are different trends for all tropical cyclones on the one hand and the most intense ones on the other, or if there are trends that point in different directions over different ocean basins. 2023) observed a significant seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s in most tropical oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The inexorable rise of ocean heat is now evident off the coast of West Antarctica, potentially disrupting critical parts of the global climate system and accelerating sea level rise.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. 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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