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Adapting to climate change will only get more expensive

A Greener Life

Photo credit: USAID US Agency for International Development via Wikimedia. A new estimate puts the cost of adapting and repairing coastal infrastructure damaged by climate change in the United States at hundreds of billions annually. But if society acts early, this price tag could be cut by up to 30-fold. By Michael Allen.

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Dr. Marco Hatch: Merging Ocean Science and Community-Driven Environmental Restoration

Washington Nature

Coastal Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest have built clam gardens for thousands of years, helping them adapt and thrive during environmental uncertainty. Some days are spent tagging and tracking clam development, others gathering water samples at low tide to test for biotoxins.

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4 PA Conservation Group Collaboration Receives NFWF Funding To Track Important Migratory Routes In The Northeast U.S.

PA Environment Daily

The Northeast Motus Collaboration will upgrade 12 coastal Motus sites managed by the USFWS, from Massachusetts to Virginia, which were among the earliest stations in the Motus network. These stations provide key detection coverage at coastal sites throughout the northeastern U.S.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

Even India witnesses forest and coastal destruction, displacement of indigenous communities, erosion of traditional values, and exploitation without compensation. On the other hand, Maldives achieved sustainability by adopting a carrying capacity standard and a 20% limit on building development in the mid-1990s.

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Will New Litigation Pressure Energy & Industrial Infrastructure to Prepare for Climate Change?

Law Columbia

The escalating costs of damages from extreme weather events, many exacerbated by climate change, makes poignant a question with a serious price tag: who will be on the hook to pay for climate damages? Photo Credit: United States Coast Guard, PA2 James Dillard.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

This bill allows fishermen to exchange lionfish tails for fishing tags for other species. More News: Western Governors reiterate need for federal-state consultation during NOAA development of “30 by 30” conservation proposal – Western Governors’ Association. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a bill ( H.R. Executive Branch.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

Circle of Blue

The federal government laid out its position in a 1947 memo, signed by the secretary of the interior: “The overall benefits to the Pacific Northwest from a thorough-going development of the Snake and Columbia are such that the present salmon run must be sacrificed. Only a portion of the salmon released each year are tagged.

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