New Scientist

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could be bolstering rainfall over the Amazon, reducing the risk it will reach a tipping point

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

One tipping point scientists have on their radar is the Atlantic Meridional Oceanic Current, a stream of water running northward up the Atlantic whose flow depends on a precise temperature gradient. Warming ocean temperatures could cause this current to slow down or collapse altogether.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2021

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” For instance, destruction of rainforest in South America is partly driven by global demand for soybeans, a good deal of which comes from China. In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That’s what we learned in my grade school. Download as PDF.

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PBS Nature

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. This episode of Untold Earth gets up close and personal with the mosses of the Hoh Rainforest to understand their vital role in this ecosystem and potential to offer a glimpse into our planets future.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. These are needed at global, regional and ‘thematic’ levels – given the diverse scales of tipping elements in oceans, forests and the cryosphere, for example. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2022

Ecology and conservation biology are an example: climate change will have a huge impact on ecology, but shifts in ecology (especially tropical rainforests) also impact climate change. Human societies and technologies, ecological systems, and atmospheric and oceanic systems are tightly interconnected. Sending a Message.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

The Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest covers an area of 6 million square kilometres in northern South America [1]. Unfortunately for the species that inhabit the rainforest, 75% of Amazonian soils are acidic, infertile, and nutrient-deficient [3]. Transport of Saharan dust to the Amazon rainforest. References.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While Christmas Island contains wetland, rainforest and marine ecosystems that host many remarkable creatures, there’s one species that steals the spotlight each year: Gecarcoidea natalis , appropriately nicknamed the Christmas Island red crab. See more wonderful ocean animals! Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s common knowledge that coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea —hosting an abundant variety of sea life and crucial habitat for about 25% of all ocean species. Soft corals have soft bodies that can move and flow with the ocean currents. The post All About Soft Corals appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While everything is connected to our ecosystems, and our oceans and rainforests are essential, people are most impacted and vital. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Amazon Rainforest. Few places are as evocative of biodiversity as the Amazon Rainforest, a region of South America that occupies just 0.5% Roughly 1,300 bird species call the Amazon Rainforest their home, as do more than 3,000 species of fishes and countless primates, butterflies, orchids, frogs and more. Lukas Musher/ANS.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

The weather phenomenon, El Nino, influenced extreme weather events at the beginning of 2024 – however, the report’s authors say that their study found that climate change played a more prominent influential role, including a historic drought in the worlds largest tropical rainforest – the Amazon.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 27, 2023

Living in the ocean is not easy. One particularly challenging ocean environment to live in: the intertidal zone. Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Ready to meet some inhabitants of the intertidal zone?

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 27, 2022

From birdsong in the rainforest to whale calls in the oceans, the world is losing the variety of sounds that enriches life. Read the full story at e360. Habitat loss, species extinctions, and industrial noise all contribute to this sonic loss, which cuts off a vital human connection to the Earth.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 19, 2024

Love ocean content? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. They are typically found in tropical and subtropical ocean habitats throughout the world and, more specifically, around shallow coral reefs.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 18, 2023

There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! These sights led me to wonder why more and more seaweed was surrounding me on my ocean walks and where was it all coming from. Love ocean content? What is seaweed? Let’s start with a basic question.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Best estimates to date suggest that the global surface temperature would stabilize within a few decades, but the new paper in the journal Frontiers in Science examines the uncertainties around that conclusion, including how the planet’s key carbon dioxide-absorbing systems, like forests and oceans, will respond.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 21, 2023

Photo: Guss B on Unsplash Earth Day is an opportunity to celebrate the awe-inspiring wonders on this planet — a place full of biodiversity hotspots, from lush rainforests to scenic mountain ranges, home to rich, endemic species. Blue carbon is carbon captured by ocean and coastal ecosystems. The seaweed may then be harvested (e.g.,

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Read the full story at Oceanographic.

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Frontiers

APRIL 20, 2022

If you ever read the ingredient list on your pet’s favorite food, you may come across ambiguous terms such as ‘fish’, ‘ocean fish’, or ‘white bait’. Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

Junk can be found everywhere—from the bellies of animals and the tissues of our own bodies to the world’s vast oceans. . The first step toward keeping trash from entering the ocean is to reduce the amount created on land and repurpose what we chuck into trash bins. invented by Cesar Harada—could one day scour the ocean for trash.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 4, 2023

Hunt Creek feeds into to Clearwater River, which eventually spills into the Pacific Ocean. In his first eight months at TNC, Justin has begun a number of projects in the Clearwater Forest and a section of the Hoh Rainforest. This road, overtime, is falling directly into Hunt Creek.”

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Greenpeace campaign “Coca-Cola is flooding our oceans with plastic” Greenpeace | October 2, 2017 Greenpeace has begun a worldwide campaign against Coca-Cola. It is high time that the soft drink multinational acknowledges responsibility for its contribution to plastic soup and sets a sustainable course.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

Wildfire in Canada , smoke in NYC , heat domes in Texas , massive heat in the Atlantic ocean are just some of this month’s news. A 2022 Rainforest Action Network repor t found that “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached USD $4.6 The leading edge of that disruption is already here.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

6] Scientists are alarmed that this year the temperature of the surface of the oceans has reached levels that are much higher, [7] and the extent of Antarctic sea ice is much lower, [8] than ever previously recorded. It’s long past time to stop relegating the climate problem to a narrowly conceived field of “environmental law.”

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This applies to food resources such as fish, habitats such as rainforests, cultural monuments as a mark of respect for their human interest. Oceans and seas cover around 2/3 of our planet. It's a natural resource and an economic one; many problems blight our oceans today, not least of all overfishing and the dumping of waste.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These are important initiatives, and the destruction of the Amazon and other rainforests around the world is a huge contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss. Countries are also meeting for a parallel set of talks on stemming biodiversity loss, restoring natural ecosystems and protecting the oceans.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We will enshrine in law a commitment to net-zero deforestation by 2030 – one of the most ambitious commitments in Latin America – and to protecting 30% of our land and ocean resources by 2030.”. Colombia is committed to playing its part. The UK will also contribute £200m, alongside 11 other donors, as part of a new £1.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P. A 2019 UCS study found that Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP were four of the top seven historical and current contributors of carbon dioxide to the world’s oceans, fueling their acidification.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Negotiations to conserve Antarctic Ocean end in stalemate on many issues – Mongabay. Brazil, Indonesia and Congo Sign Rainforest Protection Pact – The New York Times. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (online Nov. COP27 – Corporate climate pledges rife with greenwashing – U.N.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program is now open.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge – The Guardian. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee Public Meeting (May 11-13). NOAA NMFS – Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Ecosystem and Ocean Planning Committee Meeting (May 10). NOAA – U.S.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Top line agency numbers in the spending bills include: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $6.8 Morgan is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest – Associated Press. billion, a $908.6

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Matt Cartwright (D-PA) will be ranking member of the House Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, which funds the National Science Foundation, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other agencies. Meanwhile, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) will serve on the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee.

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