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Alaska Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

Circle of Blue

All of Seldovia draws its water from a single reservoir, which sits within city limits no more than 200 feet above sea level. Some people have talked about the possibility of the wetlands drying up due to climate change. Between 1950 and 2009, the average summer temperature on the upper Kenai Peninsula was 53.6

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2023 appears to follow an upward trend in the North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclone count

Real Climate

The number of North Atlantic/Caribbean named tropical cyclones in and the estimates based on the area with sea surface temperature above 25.6°C C (Benestad, 2009). But recent hurricane seasons indicate both more tropical cyclones as well as more intense ones, at least over the North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. 635-645, 2009.

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The Riddle of the Maldives

Legal Planet

It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos. In the run-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations in 2009, President Mohamed Nasheed held a cabinet meeting in scuba gear 20 feet underwater to show what awaited the low-lying island nation of the Maldives if serious action were not taken to reduce greenhouse gases.

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The Highs and Lows of Black Cod

Ocean Conservancy

She is passionate about helping fisheries manage their way through climate change and furthering ocean conservation efforts. The black cod population that spans the coasts of the United States and Canada is currently healthy, but as the climate and ocean conditions change, their long-term future is uncertain.

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G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

A Greener Life

Subsidies reached new highs in 2021, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Climate Transparency analysis finds. The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies.

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Conflict & Climate Change: The Real Triple C

Vermont Law

You read this title and say to yourself, “There is no war in climate change!” Often the discussions on climate change center around the environmental effects. Experts do not attribute climate change as a direct cause of war, but it is a catalyst for conflict. that arose from climate change.

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Degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands

Our Environment

Rising sea levels and increased intensity of storm surges are playing a considerable role in the degradation of coastal regions in the Pacific Islands. Illustrating the variation in sea levels from 1993 – 2018. Pacific Climate Change’ accessed 28 February 2021, [link]. [3] Photo credit. should be. [4]