Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Tikahtnu has been home to the Sugpiaq and Dena’ina peoples for thousands of years, and our peoples here have stewarded the resources in this area long before there were oil rigs in the ocean. That’s why I’m so grateful to be joining this team with a passion for the vision of a healthier ocean, protected by a more just world.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

During the most recent period analyzed, 2006-2018, it’s been rising at a rate of 3.7 However, on the level of basic physical reasoning, it is of course a no-brainer that warming will cause land-ice to melt (and melt faster as it gets hotter) and ocean waters to expand, so sea-level rise is the inevitable result. Source: IPCC AR6 Fig.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is no doubt that we have changed Earth’s climate through our activities on a broad range of aspects that includes consequences for the atmosphere, the oceans, snow, ice, Earth’s fauna and ecosystems. CO 2 also has an additional effect: it makes the oceans more acidic when dissolved in seawater. mm increase every year.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 8, 2021

Today is World Ocean Day, which is, understandably, a big day here at Ocean Conservancy. We spend 365 days a year talking about the wonders within our ocean—certainly a privilege and pleasure to do. And we talk about the problems facing our ocean—and the solutions we can develop to solve them. Ocean Conservancy’s role.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Think about what is involved – biological proxies from extinct species, plate tectonic movement, disappearance in subduction zones of vast amounts of ocean sediment, interpolating sparse data in space and time, degradation of samples over such vast amounts of time. All of which adds to the uncertainty.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) The argument has been made that the ‘cold blob’ might not be caused by an AMOC decline but by heat loss at the ocean surface.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. The standard of due diligence under article 192 is … stringent given the high risks of serious and irreversible harm to the marine environment” (para.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. Two recent developments aim to clear a path for testing these controversial methods in the ocean. The ocean as a carbon sink. Photo credit: Daniel Poloha / Alamy. By Olive Heffernan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 5, 2024

It was a bitter cold day on January 5, 2018, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had no choice. On the afternoon of Friday, January 5, 2018, he signed a “Declaration of Emergency” ” to waive the driving-time limits and allow the critical fuel deliveries to the oil plants to proceed.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2022 alone, estimates of the amount of plastic waste leaked to land and into the ocean in California ranged from 121,324 to 179,656 tonnes—the equivalent of dumping 20 to 30 garbage trucks of plastic waste per day into California’s landscapes and waterways.” As I wrote in 2018: [W]e are drowning in plastics.

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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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New Scientist

MARCH 3, 2022

Computer modelling of cyclone Mekunu, which hit the coast of Oman in 2018, reveals that ocean currents may have focused waves from the storm into straight beams that hit the coast of India and Pakistan

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Block Island, RI, Ocean City, MD, and Hilton Head are all at risk due to their bustling summer tourism.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

Global aquaculture production increased 16-fold between 1985 and 2018, which is the study’s period of analysis. He wants to incorporate layers of data on climate change, nutrient inputs from aquaculture and agriculture, and ocean dynamics. One prominent example of coastal development is the dramatic rise of fish and shellfish farms.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Multiplying proposals Last month the ‘Ocean Visions’ coalition of research institutions released an Arctic Sea Ice Road Map. The company sees this as a way to prevent “a blue ocean event in which Arctic sea ice disappears entirely … a tipping point with catastrophic global consequences.” Where do we go from here?

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2021

By now, we all know the damage single-use items can do to our ocean and the creatures that call it home. That’s why thousands of people have taken Ocean Conservancy’s pledges to reduce waste in their daily lives by skipping the straw and quitting the cutlery. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

Though essential to ocean life, they produce plenty of drawbacks, too. Global aquaculture production increased 16-fold between 1985 and 2018, which is the study’s period of analysis. He wants to incorporate layers of data on climate change, nutrient inputs from aquaculture and agriculture, and ocean dynamics.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a recent opinion released by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court declined to vacate a deficient environmental impact statement (“EIS”) prepared in connection with two offshore lease sales held in 2018, the records of decision announcing the sales, or the leases issued.

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

inches, was spectacularly eclipsed in May 2018 when a record 8.21 Now, though, climate is changing rivers, lakes and oceans, forcing a renegotiation of our relationships to those bodies of water. As climate scientists predict, more rain is hitting Chicago in the form of intense storms. inches of rain fell. inches soaked the city.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Colorado River basin illustrates the impacts of a hot drought. Clunky, perhaps. But more accurate.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ocean Conservancy has compiled the data collected during this global volunteer effort on behalf of ocean health since the ICC’s start in 1986. Now, a new collaboration between Ocean Conservancy, PADI AWARE Foundation and scientists at CSIRO has resulted in the first global map of plastic hotspots. Never miss an update.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If the land data was contaminated by urban heating effects, we wouldn’t see similar warming in the ocean. Zhang, "The Detection and Attribution of Northern Hemisphere Land Surface Warming (1850–2018) in Terms of Human and Natural Factors: Challenges of Inadequate Data", Climate , vol. Szarka, H.L. Tanaka, M.K. Vahrenholt, V.M.

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Sri Lankan marine biologist and ocean educator is best known for her pioneering work on blue whales and for founding the non-profit Oceanswell , Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organization. My aim is to create a community of ocean-conscious individuals. Photo Credit: Prishan Pandithage.

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Real Climate

APRIL 2, 2021

Bennartz, "The Role of Aerosols in the Evolution of Tropical North Atlantic Ocean Temperature Anomalies", Science , vol. Yeager, "Comment on "The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation"", Science , vol. Saba, "Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation", Nature , vol.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In fact, some estimates have shown that over 75% of adults in Vanuatu engage in fishing of some kind, and in 2018, frozen fish fillets alone contributed to 55% of Vanuatu’s total export revenue. 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

JUNE 13, 2023

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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2021

The massive reservoir, often referred to as an “inland ocean,” is stabilizing the increasingly arid region and could keep water running for customers as drought worsens throughout the American West. Al Jazeera reports that although the funds were already approved by Congress, the Idaho Republican used procedures under a 2018 U.S.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 16, 2021

On the back of the dark and sombre Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cli mate report released last week, the US government agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that this July was the warmest month ever experienced on Earth. By Anders Lorenzen. Photo credit: NOAA NCEI. Record-breaker.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Many are located along the San Francisco Bay, which is connected to the ocean via the Golden Gate. percent in 2018. The Los Angeles Times reports that researchers identified 440 toxic sites in the state that are at risk of flooding by the end of the century due to rising seas and rising tides. percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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Physics World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

However, additional reservoirs of water with a similar D/H ratio are required to account for all the water in Earth’s oceans. The exceptions include a handful of comets and carbonaceous chondrites, or C-type, asteroids. A sample of dust. The Solar System formed from a cloud of gas and dust that astronomers call the solar nebula.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

In addition, it stores vast quantities of freshwater that if released to the ocean would rise sea level by tens of meters and interfere with saline-driven ocean currents that transfer heat around the planet. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’. One of the key projects dominating is a 1.5 20 GW before 2030.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 18, 2023

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. I came to the islands for the first time in 2018 to study the sk’yuuwan that swim to the islands by the thousands to have their pups. As a reminder, there are no human inhabitants on these islands so this trash is all marine debris and arrived via ocean currents.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The ocean has buffered our planet from the impacts of climate change, absorbing much of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and a substantial amount of the heat from our warming atmosphere. The ocean is getting higher and hotter; it holds less oxygen; and it’s becoming more acidic. We know the ocean will keep changing. Schoeman, L.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. So far, 18 countries have joined the GGGI to contribute to a cleaner, safer and more resilient ocean. Martha Delgado, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sherpa of Mexico before the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 2, 2023

Single-use plastic items persist indefinitely in our marine environment, collecting in rivers, streams and ultimately the ocean, endangering and entangling wildlife along the way. 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

AUGUST 18, 2022

When I think of seaweed, I immediately think of mysterious ocean monsters attacking me during childhood beach trips with my family. Likely named by Portuguese sailors who thought it looked like grapes, Sargassum is an abundant type of seaweed found near the surface in warm waters of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Take action today.

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