Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2022

I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on ocean justice at Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW). This year’s CHOW convening was especially important as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of a powerful package of legislative changes that improved how we protect our ocean, coasts and lakes.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 6, 2021

From implementing extended producer responsibility schemes to banning harmful single-use plastic items, governments at all levels have the ability to make a big difference on all forms of ocean plastic pollution. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. But as we all know, our ocean has no borders.

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 7, 2021

Every day, we see countless threats endanger the environmental integrity of our ocean, like oil spills and marine debris. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Unlike us, ocean animals can’t ask to turn down the noise. The post How Does Underwater Noise Impact Our Ocean? Never miss an update!

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. SWOT mission aims to fill global gaps in key water data.

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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. States are required to take all necessary measures, including individual actions as appropriate” (paras 202, 294-321).

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

No funding agreement by the deadline (October 1) means the government, including agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shuts down. putting undue stress on people, our economy and our ocean. A government shutdown will put a hard stop on NOAA’s ocean research.

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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. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger. as a national policy leader.

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New Scientist

APRIL 20, 2022

From deep-sea mining to industrial-scale fishing, human activities in the oceans are expanding massively in a realm where few rules apply. Only now are we grappling with how to regulate the rush to plunder the seas

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 24, 2021

Even worse, unlike sewage, the discharge of greywater is not regulated in most parts of the world, meaning ships can discharge greywater directly into the ocean, without any form of treatment. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Fortunately, that’s not the case in Alaska. Sign up to never miss an update!

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Law Columbia

MARCH 15, 2023

The Sabin Center today published model federal legislation to advance safe and responsible ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. Controlled field trials and other in-ocean research is critical to improve scientific and societal understanding of CDR techniques that could help the U.S. reach its climate goals.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The nation’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters are dramatically cleaner and healthier than they were a half-century ago. In virtually all other nations, enforcement of water pollution control and other environmental laws is the sole responsibility of government regulators.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

Scientists have identified a number of land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approaches. Early efforts primarily focused on land-based approaches, but interest in ocean-based approaches, also known as marine CDR, has grown in recent years. ocean waters. for environmental harms resulting from their activities).

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Whomever shares the immediate blame, it was systemic under-regulation that set the scene for the spill. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responds to more than 150 oil and chemical spills in US waters each year. Read the full story from Mother Jones.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.” Recent changes in electricity regulation seem likely to increase the role of fuel oil in electricity production, which produces about 50% more carbon than natural gas.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life. I am driven by envisioning healthy communities within those ecosystems.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

With increasing temperatures, “we’re seeing places that do have drought, the intensification is more rapid,” says Roger Pulwarty, a senior scientist in the physical sciences laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Activists in Arizona are gathering signatures to put groundwater regulation on the ballot.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As evidenced by the 150-plus people in attendance, ocean CDR is attracting growing attention as a possible climate change mitigation option. ground rock) into the ocean?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 6, 2022

Toronto | Traditional territories of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation – This Plastic Free July, Environmental Defence is highlighting that plastic pollution is not just an oceans problem. But the lakes are very much threatened by plastics,” added Woodhouse.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 8, 2024

This blog was written by Hannah De Frond, Ocean Conservancy Consultant and International Trash Trap Network Coordinator. A recent example of this followed the publication of Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto’s research paper about microplastics in commonly consumed protein products. We wanted to understand what U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 28, 2025

by David Shiffman, Arizona State University The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than climate change or plastic pollution, has been unsustainable fishing practices. In much of the ocean, there is little to no regulation or oversight of commercial fishing or other human activities.

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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. Plastic pollution is a social justice issue, a climate issue and an ocean issue. Want to learn more about Ocean Justice?

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

These midden heaps left by our ancestors are evidence of the ocean food we cherish and yet, are now under threat from climate change, harmful algal blooms and ocean acidification. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. The post When The Tide is Out, The Table is Set appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

These included Biden climate-change regulations, but also protections against air pollution that are important to public health and water pollution limits for coal plants. Another agency, NOAA studies ocean and atmospheric systems, providing crucial information about climate change. The head of EPA plans to go much farther, however.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. That also means they play the largest role in climate-related environmental changes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Fossil fuel companies wanted to make sure that regulation of their products, and as a result the heat-trapping emissions that come from producing and using fossil fuels, were kept out of international agreements. The oceans don’t fill up like a bathtub with the water rising at the same level everywhere.

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Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2024

From COSIS to ITLOS The ocean and climate are inextricably linked. On one hand, numerous adverse effects of climate change manifest in the ocean, such as ocean acidification, temperature changes, and rising sea levels. On the other hand, the ocean plays an important role in combating climate change.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

That initiative would have authorized CalRecycle to adopt and enforce regulations requiring that 80 percent of single-use plastic packaging and food service ware, as compared to 2020 levels, be recyclable, compostable, or source reduced by 2030, with an additional requirement that 25 percent of the waste be source reduced.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 10, 2021

As ocean lovers, we’re always searching for effective ways to conserve and protect all the ocean holds and provides. No matter our skillset or where we live, we are all connected to the ocean and we each have the potential to contribute. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Never miss an update.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste ” by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine demonstrate just how prescient Mr. Maguire was. . contribution of plastic waste to the environment, including the ocean. Truer words have never been spoken. The release this week of “ Reckoning with the U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 31, 2022

Explore the mysteries of the deep sea, discover creatures no one knew existed until recently and experience the technology that allows scientists to travel to the bottom of the ocean in Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss, opening Saturday, April 2 at the Academy. Oceanographers do this by searching the depths of our oceans.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Uganda, national regulators are cracking down on the illegal destruction of wetlands in an attempt to reduce flood risk in the east African country. Regulators are keen to act because wetlands reduce flood risk by absorbing heavy rains. Transcript. Until recently, truck drivers who poured the fill met little resistance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean. No one likes uncertainty,” Gold said.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 2, 2024

Our ocean is home to a diverse range of species that carry out their daily activities with little concern. Want to learn more about ocean animals? Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Their existence is essential for a healthy ocean.

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NRDC

MAY 15, 2023

To protect ocean biodiversity, the International Maritime Organization must take action to require commercial ships to reduce underwater noise.

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