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Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic...
By Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton | – While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings with other national officials this week in...
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Marine mucilage may have disastrous consequences for the environment By Doga Celik | – ( GlobalVoices.org ) – The Marmara Sea is a pristine body of water, extending from the Dardanelles Strait to the...
View ArticleEye of Fire as Ocean burns in Gulf of Mexico foretells Earth Future if we...
“Having to put out a fire in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico feels just too difficult to believe. And yet…” By Julia Conley, staff writer | – ( Commondreams.org) – A fire that raged for hours in the...
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Why We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean
By Josep Lluís Pelegrí Llopart | – The United Nations declared the start to the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development earlier this year. Its aim is to promote science-based ocean and...
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Climate Emergency is Driving Ocean’s Dead Zones, which emit more and more...
By Brett Jameson | – In October 2019, I set sail with a team of scientists aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Vessel John P. Tully in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island....
View ArticleGasoline and Coal’s Climate Freak Show: Fire-nado, 1 Billion Dead Marine...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Gasoline demand in the U.S. rebounded vigorously in the week leading up to the 4th of July, to an average of 9.6 million barrels a day, the highest rate seen since...
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California is planning floating wind farms offshore to boost its power supply...
By Matthew Lackner | – ( The Conversation ) – Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it has a problem. Its...
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Coral reef scientists raise alarm as climate change decimates ocean...
By Sam Purkis | ( The Conversation) – The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands...
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Top 5 Ways Coal and Gasoline-Driven Ocean Change can Threaten Human Health
By Tiff-Annie Kenny, Malaya Bishop and Mélanie Lemire | – Humans have a deep and complex relationship with the sea. It provides food and essential nutrients, medicine and renewable energy. People swim,...
View ArticleUN: Earth heading to 16% Increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030,...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A United Nations study of the greenhouse gas reduction targets announced by the 191 signatories to the Paris Convention has come up with an alarming result. If countries...
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California’s latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil...
By Charles Lester | – An oil spill first reported on Oct. 2, 2021, has released thousands of gallons of crude oil into southern California coastal waters. The source is believed to be a leak in an...
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Coral reefs are dying as climate change decimates ocean ecosystems vital to...
By Sam Purkis | – The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean,...
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Can the Collapse of West Antarctica’s Ice Sheet and massive Sea Level Rise be...
By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, and Nick Golledge | – ( The Conversation) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to the impact on about 700 million people who live in low-lying...
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Plastic trash in the ocean is a global problem, and the US is the top source...
By Matthew Savoca, Anna Robuck, and Lauren Kashiwabara | – Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic sea ice. And a new...
View ArticleArctic Ocean started getting warmer Decades earlier than we Thought
By Sarah Collins | – The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar...
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Alarming Loss of Sea Ice diminishes the Arctic’s ability to cool the Global...
By Matthew Druckenmiller, Rick Thoman, and Twila Moon | – The Arctic has long been portrayed as a distant end-of-the-Earth place, disconnected from everyday common experience. But as the planet...
View ArticleA Rise of average world Temperatures by 2.3° C. (4.2° F.) will degrade the...
By Alfred McCoy | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – When midnight strikes on New Year’s Day of 2050, there will be little cause for celebration. There will, of course, be the usual toasts with fine wines in the...
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Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ Glacier: how its Collapse could trigger global Floods...
By Ella Gilbert | – The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests...
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Ocean Heat is at Record Levels, with Major Consequences
By Kevin Trenberth | – The world witnessed record-breaking climate and weather disasters in 2021, from destructive flash floods that swept through mountain towns in Europe and inundated subway systems...
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Climate Emergency Parable: Mammoth Iceberg that broke free from Antarctica...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Anne Braakmann-Folgmann et al. in an article for Remote Sensing of the Environment observed by satellite the now-disintegrated Iceberg A68A over its 3.5-year life since...
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