Environmental News Bits
MAY 7, 2025
by Brad deYoung, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Kristen St John, James Madison University ; Mona Behl, University of Georgia; Peter Girguis, Harvard University; Richard W Murray, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Stephen Palumbi, Stanford University Listen to the story: [link] Humankind is inextricably dependent on the ocean.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
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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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
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.
Law Columbia
JUNE 4, 2024
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.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 2, 2022
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.
Law Columbia
APRIL 10, 2025
Alaska is thought to be an idea place for seaweed CDR projects, in part because local ocean conditions are well suited to growing seaweed, and also because the state has established processes for permitting seaweed farms. Seaweed naturally converts dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water into organic carbon through photosynthesis.
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