Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 23, 2025

The ocean absorbs about 90% of the excess heat generated by climate change, leading to rising sea temperatures and, among other things, sea level rise due to the melting of the polar ice caps, including Arctic ice. First, climate change. Warmer ocean waters impact marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries.

Ocean

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.

Climate Change

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.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. A year later, the government approved proposals for two hydroelectric plants worth $447 million on the grounds that they would increase the availability of electricity, create jobs and spur economic growth. of whom grow crops.

Government

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

This is when the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, which is severely threatened by rising sea levels, said it would seek an advisory opinion from the ICJ on climate change. And it singled out the failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and consumption as a wrongful act”, she said.

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. A year later, the government approved proposals for two hydroelectric plants worth $447 million on the grounds that they would increase the availability of electricity, create jobs and spur economic growth. of whom grow crops.

Government

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Home Sales and Water Levels are On The Rise in Flood Zones Written by Abigail Bailey and Dr. Guanchi Zhang Sea levels are rising in the United States, and so are home sales in flood zones. Instead of protecting vulnerable buyers, the government is often the seller and beneficiary.

Sea Level

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Additionally, sea levels around Malaysia are projected to rise by a maximum of 3 to 10 mm by 2030 and 11 to 21 mm by 2050. While no provision prohibits litigation related to the Act, it does create obstacles to using litigation as a means of government accountability. Malaysia regularly experiences high temperatures.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By comparison, Guyana—a country vulnerable to floods, droughts, sea-level rise, and other climate impacts (and where ExxonMobil is being sued over its offshore oil extraction projects)—also has 12 representatives at COP29. Obtaining high-level access But it’s not just the numbers.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

OAR also monitors the Arctic’s rapidly changing environment, as it significantly influences global weather patterns and sea levels. From melting sea ice to shifts in marine life, this research is vital to understanding and adapting to climate impacts. NOAA scientists’ data saves lives.

Climate Change

Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2009, scientists discovered a link between black cod recruitment (which refers to the new young fish that enter the population each year) and sea level. Fisheries are complex systems that connect ecosystems and communities and markets, which means sometimes there are surprising effects from changes, even from an increase in fish.

Ocean

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Preemption is legal doctrine that applies when a higher level of law in this case, a state law blocks or overrides a lower level of law here, a city law. Chronic flooding from sea level rise and storm surges has become the norm in Southern Brooklyn and Queens. Field preemption can be express or implied.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Project 2025, the far-rights playbook for systemically reshaping the federal government, specifically calls out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to be dismantled, downsized, and eliminated. How will this affect people in the United States, including those who support efforts to cut government spending?

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2025

They also monitor ocean acidification, sea level rise, global CO2 levels, and sea surface temperature, all key impacts of climate change that need to be monitored. NOAA must be protected Are you surprised that one little agencyone that costs way less than 1% of the total US government budgetdoes all this?

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

Governments must take meaningful action to prevent serious harm to the environment, work together to address the climate crisis, and act with care and urgency to reduce emissions and protect people from climate impacts. That governments cannot turn a blind eye to corporate emissions. It makes it clear that human rights are at stake.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

billion to combat sea level rise. Prop 4 would authorize issuance of $10 billion in bonds, which would provide $3.8 billion for safe drinking water and groundwater, $1.5 billion for wildfire and forest programs, and $1.2 You can find more details in an earlier Legal Planet post by Sabrina Ashjian.

Natural Gas

Yale E360

JUNE 26, 2025

“This is a chance for the Prabowo government to show that it has learned from those failures.” Is Transforming Conservation Science Energy China’s Mega Dam Project Poses Big Risks for Asia’s Grand Canyon Solutions How Natural Solutions Can Help Islands Survive Sea Level Rise INTERVIEW Will U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea. The government’s real mission was to build Arctic capabilities so it could both operate and listen from somewhere much closer to the Soviet Union.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2025

In Jakarta, sinking due to groundwater withdrawals and urban growth, lies Lake Pluit, which is below sea level. 95 Percent of children living in or near the mining town of Kabwe, Zambia, who have elevated levels of lead in their blood, Al Jazeera reports. The district around the lake was inundated by historic flooding in 2007.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

billion dollars from the federal government. And while there is a lot more that Congress and this administration could do to incentivize more emergency readiness by state, local, tribal and territorial governments, this administration hasnt shown it understands the concept of reducing risk.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Sabin Center’s two briefs highlight (1) the crucial role that local governments play in responding to the climate crisis and how EPA’s Power Plant Rules support local climate action; and (2) the maturity of CCS technology which will allow EPA’s standards to be met at power plants. billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In 2022, FEMA and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreed this gap was at 35 percent , which translates into 6,200 positions. Advocate for robust funding for FEMA operations and staff: Given the increasing demands on the agency, the council must advocate for an increase in funding for FEMAs operations and staffing.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

It could also raise sea levels along the United States East Coast. There is even talk of sending massive amounts of water to the struggling Sea of Galilee, which is actually a lake near the Syrian border that serves as Israels prime freshwater source.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2025

This year’s Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation: 2025 Snapshot from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics provides a comprehensive look at how litigation has become both a global trend and a maturing tool for climate governance. In 2024 alone, at least 226 new climate cases were filed.

Politics

Circle of Blue

APRIL 1, 2025

At the governments request, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland canvassed the island to assess the most favorable rivers from which to extract glacial meltwater. Its report , published in 2020, noted that the Government of Greenland actively supports the prospect of drinking water export from this immense resource.

Ocean

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. Alaska, Hawaii, U.S.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

It shows, for example, that both the strength and rapid intensification of hurricanes are increasing, that the intensity and duration of drought and extreme precipitation are increasing , that sea level rise and coastal flooding are increasing , and that wildfires are increasing in frequency and size. They belong to us.

Carbon Dioxide

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 a 2022 study by researchers at Resources for the Future and Columbia University, wetlands are worth between $1.2 trillion and $2.9 Photos by Derrick Z.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Here are 126 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A government report released prior to the festival raised concerns that these waters were contaminated with both elevated amounts of faecal bacteria and untreated sewage, though the chief minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh state, where Kumbh Mela takes place, refuted these results and insisted the waters were safe.

2025

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

LA Times climate columnist Sammy Roth reread the Laudato Si encyclical , and was struck by his nuanced discussion of extreme weather and sea level rise, and the need to phase out fossil fuels making it almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written. In that way, we just lost one of the most impactful climate communicators.

Earth Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2025

My colleagues and I have been tracking federal government actions, decisions, or policies that undermine science or the scientific process. For folks who came here to find out how they can help defend science and scientific integrity in the federal government, I’ve included resources at the bottom of this page.

Politics

Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies). In fact, the U.S.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Imperial Beach is one of many California communities vulnerable to sea level rise. This week, Senator Ben Allen introduced SB 1078 , a bill that would create a Sea Level Rise Revolving Loan Pilot Program to help coastal cities plan proactively for the effects of climate change. Photo credit: sk8mama, Flickr.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2024

It will take massive investment by the federal government to build the amount of affordable housing we need, and further government action to strengthen housing rights in this country. Given the dire shortage of affordable housing, governments have an obligation to make sure that resilience measures are accessible and affordable.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

A new map tool from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows you where and when critical pieces of coastal infrastructure such as public housing buildings, schools and power plants are at risk of repeated, disruptive flooding due to climate change­­­­­-driven sea level rise. Photo credit: Ben Neely/MyCoast.org.

Sea Level