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Meet the 7 Longest Living Ocean Animals

Ocean Conservancy

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Without further delay, meet these seven ocean animals that have had more birthdays than almost every other creature on Earth. Ocean Quahogs (Clams). Ocean quahogs are among the longest-living marine organisms in the world. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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

Real Climate

C (Benestad, 2009). 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. 635-645, 2009. IPCC assessment report 6 – technical summary TS.2.3

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A Visit to a Remote Maine Island Finds Puffins and Terns are Having a Good Year Despite Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

A puffin brings its chicks a large oval butterfish and a long sand lance–clear signs of the struggle of seabirds in the Gulf of Maine, which has some of the fastest-warming ocean water on earth. By 2009, a record 104 pairs of puffins bred on Petit Manan, along with more than 2,500 pairs of terns. Welcome reprieve.

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The Highs and Lows of Black Cod

Ocean Conservancy

This blog was written by Michele Conrad, advisor to Ocean Conservancy on achieving priority fish conservation and ecosystem goals on the West Coast. As a former state ocean policy manager, Michele represented the State of Washington on the Pacific Fishery Management Council for 15 years before starting her own consultancy.

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Environmental Group Celebrates as Federal Government Finalizes Delayed Plan to Protect Redside Dace After Legal Pressure

Enviromental Defense

Ecojustice lawyers, representing Environmental Defence, filed an Application for Judicial Review this June, after Fisheries and Oceans Canada missed the mandatory Species at Risk Act deadline of April 3, 2024 to finalize the Recovery Strategy and Action Plan for the Redside Dace.

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“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt

Circle of Blue

He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Today, Carolina Gold is cultivated by only a handful of small-scale farmers. .

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‘The Opportunity Is Now’: Water Advocates View Upcoming UN Climate Conference as Moment of Relevance

Circle of Blue

Demonstrators took to the streets at the 2009 global climate convention in Copenhagen. degrees Celsius, but also to enable communities to live with extreme weather, acidifying oceans, and rising seas that are already occurring. Water was overlooked in past global climate talks. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.