Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

New research finds that Greenlands ice sheet is cracking more rapidly than ever as it remains on track to increase sea levels by one meter by this centurys end. By 2100, the ice sheets melting is on track to increase sea levels by about one meter, and 10 meters by 2300. Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

trillion in flood mitigation value alone , a value that has grown more critical with sea level rise and increased frequency and intensity of storms and wildfires. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial and recreational fisheries provide 1.7 trillion and $2.9 million jobs.

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Yale E360

JUNE 6, 2025

Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells. At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Hilton Head is fast becoming a prominent test case of rising sea levels and intense coastal storms heralded by climate change.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 19, 2021

Maya Canonizado is a Communications Intern at Ocean Conservancy, based in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up and living on the coast her whole life sparked her love for the ocean and the desire to protect it from a young age. Before I started working for Ocean Conservancy, I browsed through this very website.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. degrees Celsius. If we warm beyond 1.5°C, If we warm beyond 1.5°C,

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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. Warmer water also expands and raises sea levels as well as holds less oxygen.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For ocean advocates like me who have been tracking the $1.5 In coastal counties, which are home to about 40% of the United States’ population, critical water infrastructure is growing more vulnerable to climate change and faces a host of compounding hazards such as sea level rise and flooding, heavy precipitation and extreme storm surges.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When we think about the age of the dinosaurs, we often forget about what was swimming in the ocean during that period. Global sea levels were high during the Mesozoic period in which dinosaurs ruled the earth. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The subsequent 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also recognizes the right of “everyone to take part in cultural life” and requires signatories to take the steps “necessary for the conservation, the development, and the diffusion of science and culture.” Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Last summer while visiting family in Bogotá, Colombia, a city located 9,000 feet above sea level in the Andes, I noticed more plastics than during my visit a decade ago. 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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sea levels were quickly rising, and the rapid waters kept sediment from settling. Take action with Ocean Conservancy today and make sure Congress fully funds NOAA !

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 12, 2024

The name “gummy squirrel” seems more fitting for a dangerously delicious confection dreamt up by Willy Wonka, but you may be surprised to learn it is actually a sea cucumber found in the deep ocean. Sweet looks aside, this sea cucumber is a fascinating creature only found hidden in the deep ocean. Love ocean content?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Our ocean faces a diverse range of threats, and it takes a diverse community of advocates to protect it. We cannot talk about conservation efforts without discussing how diversity, inclusion and equity fit into the mix. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Zavia Jenkins , Florida Conservation Program.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2022

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. This level of warming would lead to devastating losses in habitats, increased risk of sea level rise in extreme heat and other weather impacts that would put many communities at risk. What does this mean for the ocean? Never miss an update. degrees by 2100.

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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

JUNE 10, 2021

As ocean lovers, we’re always searching for effective ways to conserve and protect all the ocean holds and provides. No matter our skillset or where we live, we are all connected to the ocean and we each have the potential to contribute. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 12, 2022

Now, as I am preparing for the Our Ocean Conference in Palau—one of the small island states being heavily affected by rising sea levels—those thoughts remain at the forefront of my mind. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Sign up to receive our emails.

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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. Never miss an update.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2021

There is no doubt that climate change is the single greatest threat facing our ocean. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Healthy coastal ecosystems will reduce the damage from sea level rise. The post How to Talk About Our Changing Climate appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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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

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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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 25, 2022

Conservation planners in an era of climate change attempt to model and predict outcomes of mitigation strategies for the near and distant future. Read the full story at JSTOR Daily.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The ocean’s critical role in climate change—both as a victim and an essential part of the solution—has received more attention, as is its due, in the past several years. One issue extremely important to Ocean Conservancy is the advocacy of ocean justice and equity, too long ignored, in developing ocean policy.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2022

fisheries and the stalled progress on reducing the stocks that are experiencing overfishing, are overfished and are struggling to rebuild to healthy levels. This isn’t simply a hypothetical situation; the fish that are available to us and our ocean ecosystems are essential to our survival and successes. The ocean is not at a stasis.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Consequently, the response to this advisory opinion request should consider the climate change regime set by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) concerning the ocean. However, ITLOS is not responsible for implementing the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Other successes include better soil health management practices as a result of federal spending and restoration of native perennial cover as in programs like the Audubon Great Plains Conservation Forage Program. Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Wild-caught seafood from our ocean is no exception. Climate change is making the ocean warmer, more acidic and lower in oxygen. It’s also causing marine heatwaves, storms, sea ice loss and sea level rise. Cod live in colder ocean waters, which can make them vulnerable as waters warm.

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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. She is passionate about helping fisheries manage their way through climate change and furthering ocean conservation efforts.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 7, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth’s land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature’s capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.”.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 26, 2023

My family and I think octopuses are the most marvelous animals in the ocean. Glass Octopus Glass octopuses ( Vitreledonella richardi ) are very rarely seen, not only because they live around 3,000 feet below sea level, but also because they are translucent (hence the name!) Dive deeper with dumbo octopuses.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 9, 2023

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. In 2022, the melt season extended into September for the first time ever—the effects will be felt around the world in the form of sea level rise. The post South Greenland at a Crossroads appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. Enter Your Email.loading.

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