Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

In the US, when we check our local weather forecast, when our communities are recovering from an extreme weather event, or when our fisherfolk are at sea catching food, we are benefitting from the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources.”

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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. At the same time, the Tribunal’s interpretation was also conservative in the sense that it was a straightforward reading of the UNCLOS text.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down. putting undue stress on people, our economy and our ocean. A government shutdown will put a hard stop on NOAA’s ocean research.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). Alaska is thought to be an idea place for seaweed CDR projects, in part because local ocean conditions are well suited to growing seaweed, and also because the state has established processes for permitting seaweed farms.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the water cycle and how it impacts the weather and our ocean. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As ocean waters warm , more water evaporates into the air, which then results in more intense and frequent rain or snow.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 6, 2024

We are officially within the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season here in the United States, and just a couple weeks ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its forecast for this year’s season. The post Florida’s Daunting 2024 Hurricane Forecast appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

A thirsty atmosphere evaporates or sublimates its share. 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.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For more than 35 years, Ocean Conservancy® has mobilized millions of volunteers through the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC), removing more than 344 million pounds of trash from beaches and waterways around the globe. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Ocean Conservancy.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Intellectual Coherence.

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Washington Nature

MAY 6, 2024

SOAR Program Partners: The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Builders Initiative, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. The recycled plastic will be broken down into plastic pellets for reuse. © Molly Bogeberg/TNC

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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.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 9, 2022

As our ocean connects us, so does the need for solutions to protect it. Ocean Conservancy research has shown that one of the main ways to reduce the flow of plastic to the ocean is by improving urban recycling and waste collection systems. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 12 [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center: Trusted Partner For Community Scientists; Conserving National Park Streams; Support Clean Water [PaEN] -- Registration Open!

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 11, 2023

Our ocean is a magical place, and it’s easy to become mesmerized by all it has to offer. our ocean and its incredible wildlife. Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Dive in and explore.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

It’s been more than two years since Ocean Conservancy’s Florida Conservation Program launched Shores Forward , our flagship initiative to create positive change for our ocean across Florida. We now bring these successes to Tallahassee where we advocate and help craft legislation that protects our ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 18, 2024

She aspires to pursue a career in business, speaks four languages and is passionate about ways to prevent plastic from entering our ocean. Ultimately, students in the program aim to reduce the amount of plastic litter in their communities and prevent it from making its way to the ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Fortunately, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has numerous coastal resilience projects that help protect, preserve and fortify fragile ecosystems like barrier islands.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 2, The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania released new results and analysis of a federally-funded community science study that produced Philadelphia’s highest-resolution heat map to date. For more information, visit TNC-PA’s Urban Conservation in Pennsylvania webpage. Click Here to become a member.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But plastics present a much broader threat to our ocean, climate and marginalized coastal communities. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. Plastic pollution is a social justice issue, a climate issue and an ocean issue. Want to learn more about Ocean Justice?

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Justice team is proud to announce the first Ocean Justice Community Grants cohort. Climate change and ocean injustice present dual crises that disproportionately impact marginalized coastal and ocean communities. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 24, 2023

Each IPCC report gives us more insights into how our ocean is changing, how those changes might impact the wildlife and communities that depend on it, and the options for ocean-based climate solutions. 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

MAY 20, 2021

The significance of the ocean to humanity cannot be overstated, whether it is regulating Earth’s climate, providing food to billions or helping society transition to renewable, fossil fuel-free energy. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. © Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa/Ocean Conservancy.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 28, 2022

The blog was co-written by Black Surf Santa Cruz founder Esabella Bonner and board secretary Rachel Kippen whose organization partnered with Ocean Conservancy. Bonner founded Black Surf Santa Cruz in 2020 to make ocean spaces more inclusive and welcoming to BILPOC community members. We are about to paddle out.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2022

This is why I was so excited to have the opportunity to join Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative® (GGGI) and the Rozalia Project for a cleanup of ghost gear in Maine aboard their 60-foot sailing vessel, the American Promise. The post Setting Sail to Collect Ghost Gear in Maine appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 A recent analysis of six Michigan communities released by activists and conservation groups urged officials to adopt a strategy to mitigate the state’s water-affordability crisis. ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 31, 2023

A coral reef restoration project off iconic Waikīkī Beach has been recommended for a $9 million grant by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Habitat Conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ten students had just listened to me explain the cascade of negative effects associated with the increasing acidification of ocean waters. The frightful phenomenon is on a scale proportional to and correlated with the climate altering changes in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Washington Nature

JUNE 3, 2021

“ The TNC has a strong history of collaborating with the fishers in the groundfish fishery, and as conservation tools are adjusted, it is important to understand how fish and fishermen alike respond to these opportunities. ” Balancing conservation and fishing opportunities is challenging. ” — Marissa Paulling.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. As the CEO of Ocean Conservancy, I naturally look to our ocean. We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. If we continue on our current path, we will see our ocean deteriorate before our eyes.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is fitting that Ocean Conservancy is kicking off Black History Month by spotlighting a Black-led organization near our headquarters on the ancestral lands of the Anacostans and the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples—more commonly known as Washington, D.C. Just how deep? Want to help Blacks of the Chesapeake recover their beaches?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

of the Interior, in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Council on Environmental Quality, invites public comment regarding the development of the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas , a new tool that will be used to reflect baseline information on the lands and waters that are conserved or restored.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Under this agreement, governments have committed to conserving at least 30% of land and of ocean globally, respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and recognizing contributions of Indigenous and traditional territories towards this goal. Over $800 million in support of Indigenous-led conservation.

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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.

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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. The post Tackling Ghost Gear in Mexico Waters appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Never miss an update. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington-Tacoma discovered that one chemical in this toxic mix that is present in all types of tires – 6PPD – is particularly harmful to salmon. Recently, scientists from Washington State University, U.S. We know these projects work.

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