Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the halls of Congress, legislators are at a standstill on funding the federal government for the next fiscal year (FY24). No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Pennsylvania Sea Grant is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Penn State University, and through federal, state, and local funding. For additional details or questions, contact Amber Stilwell, Pennsylvania Sea Grant’s Lake Erie Coastal Outreach Specialist at ars26@psu.edu.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Climate change is here, and nowhere is this more immediately apparent than in our ocean. It makes sense that our ocean would bear the most immediate impacts because it is on the front line of actually absorbing and storing the carbon that causes climate change to begin with. But not all mCDR is created equal.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. Instruments installed on the International Space Station are refining weather forecasts by measuring water vapor in the atmosphere and water held in clouds.

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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). NOAA has three main goals under its mission: “1. In 1977, Rep.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climate change, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern, a cycle caused by natural oscillations in oceanic and atmospheric temperatures which tends to desiccate Argentina and southern Brazil every few years.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 Ocean Conservancy’s Justice40 interim report dives into research conducted in Florida at the nexus of failing water infrastructure, climate risk, and federal infrastructure investments in disadvantaged communities. Check out our new Justice40 interim report to learn more.

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2024

In addition to investigating new ways to control methane emissions, scientists are also researching the possibility of removing methane already in the atmosphere. Those issues are explored in a new report by researchers at the Sabin Center, Removing Methane via Atmospheric Oxidation Enhancement: The Legal Landscape.

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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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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. It’s now widely acknowledged that to avoid catastrophic climate change we’ll need to physically remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The ocean as a carbon sink.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Pennsylvania’s Coastal Resources Management Program (CRMP) receives an annual grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 10, 2024

Without the considerable carbon absorption capacity of our lands (and oceans), we’d currently have much more CO 2 in the atmosphere and an accelerated timeline of warming. Both gradual and abrupt thaw can release huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further exacerbating warming.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Controlled field trials and other in-ocean research is critical to improve scientific and societal understanding of CDR techniques that could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Achieving global climate goals will require rapid and dramatic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, along with the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. ocean waters. judge-made) law.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

government science itself faces an uncertain future. NOAA scientists and affiliated researchers have documented profound change in the frozen north as U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

and Canadian governments, began testing for PFAS chemicals last August. Industrial sites are likely the source of PFAS in the atmosphere. Though essential to ocean life, they produce plenty of drawbacks, too. MLive reports that the monitoring program, which is jointly funded by the U.S. It could also aid in forecasting blooms.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

Thats why the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the federal agency best known for collecting … Continue reading Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska even if they dont realize it Theyre also difficult to manage, requiring specialized knowledge and technology.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As usual, most of the headlines will also focus on the Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) which was approved word by word by the governments over the last two weeks (full disclosure, I was advising the US delegation), but the full report will be worth dipping into over the next few months (there is a lot there to digest!). Figure SPM 8.

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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. Never miss an update.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Administrative reorganizations, whether in government, business, or the academy, are always difficult and costly, often taking years before the rearranged units gel into a new unit. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Representatives Scott Peters (D-California) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida), the NCARS bill would improve how the federal government prepares and responds to extreme weather and climate-related disasters. Over a decade, from 2007-2017 , the direct costs of extreme weather events to the federal government was $350 billion.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. She and another GM scientist published their work and presented their findings to GM’s VP for government relations (a/k/a “head lobbyist”).

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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. Never miss an update.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 30, 2024

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are responsible for weather forecasts and severe storm warnings, information we likely take for granted. I want everyone to feel and be safe when threatened by severe storms.

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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 work with local governments to implement on-the-ground projects with local changemakers and partners. © Ocean Conservancy.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The island nation has always been at the mercy of climate patterns such as La Niña in the oceans that surround it. High Costs, Few Customers: Benton Harbor Water Woes Loom for Michigan Cities — Shrinking populations and wealth have left many local governments unable to collect enough ratepayer revenue to cover long-term water system costs.

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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. This current legislation provides an opportunity for government leaders, and all of us, to have their backs in advancing their fights.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded nearly $1.5 ALGAL BLOOMS : The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.5 Despite Democratic control of the Michigan government, leaders say Line 5 will likely stay open. A federal judge ordered the energy giant Enbridge Inc. Other News.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responds to more than 150 oil and chemical spills in US waters each year. But earlier this year, a report by the Government Accountability Office warned that the federal Bureau… Read more →

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Climate change is no longer seen as a problem that only governments can address, partly due to past and present political failures to reach an agreement on climate solutions and party due to innovations coming from the private sector. There are options from blue carbon in the ocean to soil carbon and more. –Laurel Hunt, JD 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 7, 2022

Read the full story at Smart Cities Dive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

This new research found that ExxonMobil’s climate projections from its internally developed models accurately projected the temperature rise that has happened since then and that its calculations were in line with independent research produced at the time by academic and government scientists.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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