This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange report published Monday, Southeast Asia coastal zones are among the world’s most climate vulnerable regions. Graphic courtesy of the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.
Scientists attribute the drought’s severity to climatechange, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the La Niña weather pattern. By the end of this century, the region’s annual rainfall is expected to drop by up to 30 percent due to climatechange. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — October 4, 2021.
Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climatechange. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest.
“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Rather than entering that debate, I’d like to reflect on how issues of colonialism might relate to climatechange. For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China. Download as PDF.
Climatechange, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas.
In 27 years of previous climate conferences, there was no central discussion of health and the impacts of climatechange. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climatechange. More than ever before.
A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible. Their effects are practically irreversible.
Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climatechange will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climatechange. These connections are especially important in the environmental area, particularly in connection with climate.
By Anders Lorenzen A report produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central finds that 2024 was quite a year for extreme weather events fuelled by climatechange. WWA studied 16 floods; out of those, 15 had been driven by climatechange-amplified rainfall. Image credit: WWA.
The Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest covers an area of 6 million square kilometres in northern South America [1]. Unfortunately for the species that inhabit the rainforest, 75% of Amazonian soils are acidic, infertile, and nutrient-deficient [3]. Transport of Saharan dust to the Amazon rainforest. References.
While Christmas Island contains wetland, rainforest and marine ecosystems that host many remarkable creatures, there’s one species that steals the spotlight each year: Gecarcoidea natalis , appropriately nicknamed the Christmas Island red crab. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.
There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! These sights led me to wonder why more and more seaweed was surrounding me on my ocean walks and where was it all coming from. Love ocean content? What is seaweed? Let’s start with a basic question.
Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. We give lots of lip service describing climatechange as an emergency or existential threat. But climatechange is different. The leading edge of that disruption is already here.
Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. They are typically found in tropical and subtropical ocean habitats throughout the world and, more specifically, around shallow coral reefs.
If you ever read the ingredient list on your pet’s favorite food, you may come across ambiguous terms such as ‘fish’, ‘ocean fish’, or ‘white bait’. Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”.
Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. Tackling the climate crisis requires a multifaceted approach.
Best estimates to date suggest that the global surface temperature would stabilize within a few decades, but the new paper in the journal Frontiers in Science examines the uncertainties around that conclusion, including how the planet’s key carbon dioxide-absorbing systems, like forests and oceans, will respond.
Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.
Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.
Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.
6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”
This applies to food resources such as fish, habitats such as rainforests, cultural monuments as a mark of respect for their human interest. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste.
For almost three decades, world governments have met nearly every year to forge a global response to the climate emergency. As part of the Paris agreement, the world’s leading authority on climate science – the Intergovernmental Panel on ClimateChange – was charged with examining closely what a 1.5C Why is 1.5C
Photo credit: UN ClimateChange / Kiara Worth via Flickr. We will enshrine in law a commitment to net-zero deforestation by 2030 – one of the most ambitious commitments in Latin America – and to protecting 30% of our land and ocean resources by 2030.”. By Anders Lorenzen. Colombia is committed to playing its part.
At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climatechange said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. Climatechange is a material risk, but it is only one factor in an investment decision.” .
Americans across the country are experiencing the impacts of climatechange, from coastal flooding to decreased snowfall to drought and wildfire. More News: There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study – Mongabay. COP27 – Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing – U.N.
ESA is accepting expression of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 27 ClimateChange Conference, which will take place from Nov. UN land report: Five key takeaways for climatechange, food systems and nature loss – Carbon Brief. The late Paul G.
Panelists will share their experience at COP26 and together we will discuss what actions ESA members can take to help society mitigate and adapt to climatechange in a just and equitable way. Government report on how climatechange affects people and places in the United States. Global Change Research Program.
This ruling essentially disallows the EPA to impose actions that would reduce life threatening carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants contributing to climatechange. News Coverage of the West Virginia v EPA Decision: US Supreme Court hobbles the EPA’s authority over climate emissions – Nature. billion, a $908.6
Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. climate talks. Kerry has previously made remarks supportive of Al Jaber’s role in the climate talks.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 12,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content