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We Can Work Together to Halt Misinformation

Ocean Conservancy

Over the past few years, misinformation about climate change and our ocean has been spreading across news and social media, and many believe it will only get worse. In my work towards ocean climate solutions, I have seen how misinformation can delay climate action and impact policy decisions that affect our ocean.

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Be Part Of Keep PA Beautiful’s International Coastal Cleanups In November, Free Cleanup Supplies Available

PA Environment Daily

Groups and individuals are cleaning up their favorite shared public spaces through Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful’s Pick Up Pennsylvania Program , supporting the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. The International Cleanup is an initiative to keep trash from reaching our waterways and oceans.

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Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy

Union of Concerned Scientists

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine.

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Finding Light in Dark Places: Specific Obligations for Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Mitigation

Law Columbia

The Tribunal acted both boldly and conservatively by interpreting UNCLOS as an independent source of international legally binding obligations to address climate change and ocean acidification. The standard of due diligence under article 192 is … stringent given the high risks of serious and irreversible harm to the marine environment” (para.

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Why You Should Read CA’s ExxonMobil Plastic Lawsuit

Legal Planet

In 2022 alone, estimates of the amount of plastic waste leaked to land and into the ocean in California ranged from 121,324 to 179,656 tonnes—the equivalent of dumping 20 to 30 garbage trucks of plastic waste per day into California’s landscapes and waterways.” “In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water

Circle of Blue

At a rate of 400 feet per year, saltwater is migrating west from the ocean to once-secure inland groundwater reserves. Even though we maybe think that groundwater is somehow isolated from the ocean, it’s not,” added Dr. Allison Lassiter, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on urban water management.

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Guitarfish Rock–Here’s Why

Ocean Conservancy

Here at Ocean Conservancy, we think that all marine wildlife rock. Currently, the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) lists the shovelnose guitarfish as “Near Threatened and Decreasing.”

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