Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

Information sought in these lawsuits relates to the reconsideration of EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act (see here , here , and here ) and agency action plans to identify regulations that are unduly burdensome to development and use of domestic energy resources (see here ).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 Then add crab, lobster, scallops, salmon, and shrimp, which are among the nation’s most valuable seafoods. They all spend a portion of their lives in wetlands. The marshes further clean the water for recreational fishing.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2025

3: The ocean is losing its cool Given how busily industrialized nations have been burning fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with heat-trapping emissions, we could have seen temperature increases over land far greater than we have. For sparing us this consequence of our actions, we have the ocean to thank.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2025

Push back against the danger As we wrote last week , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule to undo the agency’s 2009 foundational scientific finding that global warming pollution endangers public health and the environment.

Ground-Level Ozone

Real Climate

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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

2023

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 20, 2024

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.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean. Photo by Derrick Z.

Carbon Dioxide

Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

2009 ), a quiescent period of volcanic eruptions ( Mann et al. Bennartz, "The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies", Science , vol. 778-781, 2009. Yeager, "Comment on "The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation"", Science , vol.

2020

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. ground rock) into the ocean?

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

On June 30, Ocean Networks Canada's CEO Dr. Kate Moran was recognized for her contributions to support ocean and planet sustainability with her appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, at this critical moment for the climate and our ocean, there were literally more press credentials distributed than at any previous COP conference. Climate change is here and is bringing with it impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and dwindling sea ice. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

Ocean

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In the Arctic Ocean, the summer sea ice minimum is an important milestone during this seasonal transition. The sea ice minimum occurs when the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reaches its lowest point for the year. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Why do we care about Arctic sea ice, anyway?

2021

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Coast Guard icebreaker Healy left Seward, Alaska to start an Arctic voyage through the famed Northwest Passage, a sea route that winds among islands north of mainland Canada and connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. . © © Ocean Conservancy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

Ocean

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Vidovich made headlines – and a lot of enemies – in 2009 by permanently selling rights to 14,000 acre feet of state water from a Kings County water district to southern California for $73 million, according to media reports. The sale is still considered a blow to Kings’ water portfolio by other farmers. It doesn’t make economic sense.

2009

Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I moved to the US in 2009 for my PhD in particle physics and in the decade since have followed the news from my alma mater and from Pan’s group. Reading their words from an ocean away, I feel waves of emotion wash over me.

Technology

Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

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. It was the site for one of the most iconic climate policy photos.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Sylvia Earle, world renowned microplastics and oceanic researcher, will be the keynote speaker for this special two-day event. Dr. Earle is the President and Chairman of Mission Blue , an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, Founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research Inc.,

Recycling

Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Michele Robinson This blog was written by Michele Robinson, 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.

Sea Level

Science & Climate

MARCH 16, 2021

For the PNAS study, researchers in 2009 began intensive efforts to eradicate the European green crab from Stinson Beach’s Seadrift Lagoon. Next Article: Seagrasses Turn Back the Clock on Ocean Acidification → The post When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance appeared first on Science and Climate.

2013

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface. L., & Finnegan, W.

Climate Change

Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

4] An increase in global temperature leads to melting of the ice caps which causes the ocean to expand and sea level to rise. An increased level of them is comparative to a blanket and results in a surface that is warmer than it otherwise. should be. [4] Atkinson, S., & Gorong, B. Coastal change in the Pacific Islands. 4] Houghton, J.,

Coastal Erosion

The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The denials are accompanied by an order from BSEE to decommission the pipelines by removal, with reference to Notice to Lessees (“NTL”) 2009-G04 and/or “significant sediment resource areas” (“SSRA”) in the vicinity of the pipeline.

2009

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean. The drought was ongoing between 2006-2009 . Darfur began because of an ecological crisis. that arose from climate change. The conflict in Darfur arose during this drought when there was not enough food and water for all.

Climate Change

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), a sub-agency within Interior, promulgated regulations in 2009 which set forth the procedure for leasing, siting, construction, and operation of offshore wind projects. To date, the development of offshore wind in federal waters has largely been limited to the east coast.

Renewable Energy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They underpin what it is to feel at home; what it means to sense one’s lineage through food in a single place or across oceans. The cost of total farm input expenditures has increased almost $80 billion since 2009, a classic symptom of an industry that has become too concentrated.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

While natural carbon sinks such as trees and oceans will account for a large proportion of the required carbon removals, additional technological solutions will also be needed. Current state of carbon management in the EU The challenge ahead becomes all the clearer when one considers the current state of carbon management within the EU.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 29, 2021

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.

Ocean

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

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. .

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

But since 2009, the cost of land-based wind has dropped by more than two-thirds as inflationary pressures eased, the technology advanced, and the US-based supply chain matured. Land-based wind similarly experienced temporary cost increases during the 2008 economic recession. Pass this bill!

Wind Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 11, 2022

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.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The latest data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) and the EU’s Copernicus climate service show that the 2024 January-August period is the hottest ever by far, putting this year well on track to be the warmest ever on record. Article 2.1(c)

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2024

He hopes the tracking will indicate how seabirds adapt to ocean heatwaves and help offshore wind developers site facilities to avoid conflict with birds. She talked about how crews kept repositioning common murre decoys on Matinicus Rock until the first egg in more than a century was laid on that island in 2009.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It stretches through China, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia before emptying into the ocean in Vietnam. Since 2009, this area has experienced Vietnam’s highest rate of emigration. . .” — Marc Goichot, a river specialist at the WWF in Vietnam. The 2,700 mile-long Mekong is the longest river in Southeast Asia.

2022

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In 2009, the U.S. Produced by David Ruck and Plastic Oceans, the film has aired at film festivals around the region this year. According to assessments by five federal agencies and every state in the Great Lakes basin, Lake Erie is among the country’s most visible examples of waters fouled by toxic blooms. There are many others.

Clean Water Act

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 27, 2022

Researchers detected PFAS chemicals in 50 dead otters found between 2007 and 2009. O’Rourke, the lead author of the study, called otters a “sentinel” species that revealed “widespread environmental pollution” in British waterways. In Recent Water News.

2022

Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

Kao, who died in 2018, went on to win the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics for his achievements. Across the ocean. Undeterred, Kao and colleagues pressed ahead and by 1969 he had measured the intrinsic loss of “bulk-fused” silica to be 4 dB/km. Meanwhile, laser technology was progressing apace too. dB/km for light at 1250 nm.

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