Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

By examining possible trajectories for global economic development, technology adoption, and policy actions, the driving forces behind emissions, these scenarios help us assess a range of potential climate futures. levels of cooperation or competition among countries, technology adoption, and inequality) in terms of radiative forcing.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In a research paper, the scientists say capturing carbon dioxide directly from the oceans could have advantages over direct air capture.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Critical minerals are key components of clean-energy technologies, which are essential to replacing fossil fuels and stabilizing the climate. This situation raises a red flag for Ocean Conservancy as we strive to protect our ocean forever and for everyone. federal waters. This action would give the U.S.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

An old idea to use ocean heat to generate clean electricity has long failed to gain traction, but the technology – known as ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) – is seeing a resurgence of interest from islands dependent on fossil fuels

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Delegates questioned when (or if) the IPCC should develop methodologies for technologies with unclear risks.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Climate change is here, and nowhere is this more immediately apparent than in our ocean. It makes sense that our ocean would bear the most immediate impacts because it is on the front line of actually absorbing and storing the carbon that causes climate change to begin with.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We focused on the following priorities : The Ocean in the Climate Change Dialogue.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The one-year, paid fellowship is made possible by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Sea Grant College Program. Nathaniel says, “I have always been incredibly passionate about marine conservation and the interface of science and law in making positive change for our oceans.

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Inhabitant

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A new device successfully hauled 20,000 pounds of trash out of the Pacific Ocean last week. This technology could potentially help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In recent years, ExxonMobil has deceptively touted its “advanced recycling technology” as a proprietary “breakthrough in recycling technology,” says the complaint. But this purported breakthrough technology has been available to ExxonMobil to employ in their production operations for decades.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet conservation funding centers on lands and oceans. There are more kinds of freshwater fish—18,075 and counting—than there are fish species living in the oceans and seas. Freshwater species are dying off and decreasing in abundance. Boats ply the waters of the Mekong River Delta, near Can Tho, Vietnam. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 4, 2022

A new study examined what the ocean will look like in the future if we keep burning all the fossil fuels we can lay our hands on. And if we do, the future for the ocean is grim indeed. The researchers applied powerful Earth system models that faithfully recreate the behavior of the ocean, land and atmosphere to game out the future.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 15, 2021

Ocean Conservancy recognized this from the very beginning when we published our ground-breaking report Stemming the Tid e. We knew the problem of ocean plastics required collective action. That is why Ocean Conservancy was thrilled to join the U.S. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 1, 2022

Two reports published in the US look seriously at the practicalities and responsibilities of altering the ocean to tackle the climate crisis. Yet the technologies needed to do this, collectively known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), remains nascent, underfunded and largely unregulated. The ocean as a carbon sink.

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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. 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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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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Scientific American

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Scientific American

JUNE 21, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hannah works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to manage the International Trash Trap Network (ITTN), a global network of local groups using trash traps to increase cleanup efforts, engage communities and inform upstream solutions. The post The Truth About Plastic Fragments appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Real Climate

JUNE 25, 2022

Ocean eddy visualization ( Karsten Schnieder ). This follows from the need to run for much longer simulation periods (centuries, as opposed to days) (a factor of ~5000 more computation), and to include more components of the climate system (the full ocean, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, bio-geochemistry, ice sheets etc.)

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 3, 2025

I recently represented Ocean Conservancy at the National Working Waterfronts Network Conference in San Diego. As an engineer, former mariner and ocean conservationist I know that decarbonizing our ports requires cross-sector partnerships. Another highlight of the conference was seeing the eWolf.

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Real Climate

JUNE 29, 2022

2022 ) and only briefly recapitulated here — is that it enables the use of physics, instead of fitting, to represent some of the most important components of the climate system (precipitating systems in the atmosphere, eddies in the ocean, and topographic relief), and hence build more reliable models. 2022 and Hewitt et al., 499-503, 2022.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Photo credit: Elisabeth Horde What is your background and role at Frontiers? “I joined Frontiers in January 2022 as a project manager for our product operations team, which sits under the technology department. Basically, the bigger the challenge (the Atlantic Ocean to virtually cross!), the bigger the motivation.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 2, 2023

Ganter, the co-founder of Circle of Blue, the leading news and science organization that reports on water issues globally, joins noted members such as ocean scientist Sylvia Earle, astronaut and former NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, and Avatar and Titanic film director and deep-diver James Cameron.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

by Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology Healthy coastal ecosystems play crucial roles in the U.S. Theyre also difficult to manage, requiring specialized knowledge and technology. economy, from supporting multibillion-dollar fisheries and tourism industries to protecting coastlines from storms.

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Frontiers

JULY 7, 2023

As we seek to escape the heat of summer at the beach, we are highlighting the top Research Topics on the world’s oceans. Here are some research topics on the world’s oceans first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers. With more than 1.2 With more than 1.2 Suggest your topic The post Going to the beach?

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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.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 5, 2022

Using stretches of fibre optic cables as sensors could enable continuous, real-time monitoring of conditions at the bottom of oceans and seas, and below the planet’s surface, researchers say.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If you need proof that there is still plenty to discover in our ocean, look no further than the recent deep-sea expedition in South America. In January 2024, a group of scientists boarded Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) to explore underwater mountain ranges off of Chile’s coast. Sign up to receive our emails.

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Scientific American

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2024

University research has led in developing clean technologies, mapping the impacts of climate change, and identifying policy tools to reduce emissions. It’s all very well for universities to “let a hundred flowers bloom” but someone needs to be in charge of watering the flowers. Other schools have also created sustainability schools.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the largest accumulation of ocean plastic on the planet — could soon be cleaned up thanks to a new device capable of collecting thousands of kilos of waste per trip. Read the full story at Planet Ark.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2023

Exploring our ocean’s deepest places is not an easy feat. The average ocean depth is 2.3 Even the deepest SCUBA dive ever recorded, 1,090 feet, is less than 10% of the way to the average ocean depth. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

His research examines how digital technologies are ushering in a new form of environmental governance within food systems, specifically as it relates to sustainability assurance within aquaculture. Then the initiatives establish sustainability objectives, which are programmed into the technologies. I spoke with Sake Kruk who’s a Ph.D.

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 16, 2024

Hannah works with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Toronto Trash Team to coordinate the International Trash Trap Network with the goal to expand the use of trash-trapping technologies to increase cleanup efforts and to document their collective impact. This blog was written by Hannah De Frond. cm) collected.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We at Ocean Conservancy are following these events closely and want our members and ocean lovers everywhere to have accurate information about whale threats. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. What are the known threats to whales?

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