Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

A new analysis out today and led by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reveals a significant amount of critical infrastructure along US coastlines at risk of disruptive flooding today and in the near future as sea level rises, potentially affecting millions of coastal residents.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Sea-Level Witch. Another easy one: just take a Sea Witch costume and wear shoe lifts. Like many ocean creatures, this mermaid is now threatened by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. A truly pathetic figure, barely able to drag itself along and beg for government bailouts. Ghost Corals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings. This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. He makes his living on the Turnbridge Plantation in his hometown of Hardeeville, South Carolina, 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. Storm events are getting steadily more intense.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

During the Hangzhou plenary, governments had the opportunity to review and adjust the draft outlines developed at earlier expert meetings. This debate is not just technicalit is deeply tied to ethics, governance, and the role of the IPCC in assessing emerging technologies.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, sea level rise and climate-driven migration from the islands threatens Vanuatu sand drawing traditions, endangering the passing down of important traditional knowledge on kinship, farming, and seasonal cycles. Many climate threats to intangible heritage have been identified. What’s next for climate and cultural rights?

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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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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) We argued in Caesar et al. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Some marine species also experience boundaries to movement, including ocean currents, thermoclines, and shipping lanes, but they are generally more able to track changes in sea temperatures. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted a season with above normal activity on its August 4 updated forecast , calling for 14-20 named storms. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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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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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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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A Greener Life

AUGUST 13, 2021

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. What’s to come.

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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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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As the risks of sea-level rise, stronger tropical storms and seawater intrusion grow due to climate change , Indonesia is ramping up efforts to protect mangrove ecosystems across the archipelago as part of both its COVID-19 recovery efforts and climate change commitments. Photo credit: Andry Denisah / Alamy. By Nithin Coca.

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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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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1145 requires CARB to create and maintain an online dashboard providing the public with information about the state’s progress on meeting its climate change goals, increasing government accountability. A Few Notable Vetoes. Conclusion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More disappointing, framing outcomes in false binaries of success or failure can lead us to think that the most consequential climate actions only take place at these elite global summits—when action is urgently needed from every single one of us, and, from every institution, corporation, and government.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Prof Martin Siegert, University of Exeter (Cornwall) Image: Shutterstock.com 42 governments around the world have agreed to protect Antarctica’s environment. In the ocean, 19 marine heatwaves have been recorded between 2002 and 2018. Prof Martin Siegert in Antarctica. The world’s largest ever heatwave (38.5C

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sea level rise is also important in the region, causing saltwater intrusion and salinization. from Chapter 21 of NCA5 Changes like sea level rise are resulting in the loss of culturally significant locations for subsistence harvesting. Other risks include increasing tropical cyclones and sea level rise.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2023

The interplay between the ocean and climate change is in the scientific literature , including recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The ocean is both a ‘victim’ of climate change (e.g., absorption of GHG by the oceans is the upstream cause of ocean acidification) and ‘part of the solution’ (e.g.,

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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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Warmer temperatures will encourage the melting of glaciers, ice fields, summer Arctic sea ice, and permafrost, some of which may be irreversible. Sea levels will continue to rise throughout the 21st century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-lying areas along coasts around the world.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And of course you should not expect governments gathered at COP26 to focus on adaptation because that’s explicitly not on the agenda. I know when we did our work in China on water and energy, we caught the attention of the Chinese government and the US government because it became (clear that water was) a national security threat.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many governments and NGOs have already generated reports on the effects of climate change and security. Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

From the ocean oscillations to trade winds, pressure systems that drives temperature, airborne particles that influence local conditions and even the phases of the moon and Earth's wobble all affect the climate (1). The east of the ocean is colder than normal while the west is warmer than average. What Climatology Is.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On longer timescales, the ocean connects global patterns through ocean circulation and sea level pressure. Certain atmospheric and oceanic conditions can lead to more predictable states of the climate system resulting in more accurate forecasts, known as forecasts of opportunity.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. This problem, sometimes referred to as a “drop in the ocean” problem , is pervasive in climate litigation, and has sometimes (though not always) been fatal. Smith further argued that the defendants’ emissions affect him personally.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean. So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change?

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the first COP in which the Mexican government has including youth on their team. The two lawyers are seeking as much information as possible about how a certain amount of emissions translates into heat, sea level rise, etc., Helene works on ocean and sea ice modelling. and ultimately in human suffering.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 23, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) delivered a landmark decision in Daniel Billy and others v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition) finding that the Australian Government is violating its human rights obligations to the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders through climate change inaction.

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