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Imagine a court hearing where the plaintiff is not a person, but a damaged river, lake or mountain. The plaintiff is a sea turtle or a Mexican grey wolf. The plaintiff is nature itself. Imagine a world where nature, and all the living beings of the...
by populationmediacenter
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 09:19 AM PDT
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Global sea surface temperatures have apparently peaked at a new record high of 21.2 Celsius (70ºF). Cooler than normal water has started welling up in the eastern Pacific ocean likely indicating the beginning of a switch from warm El Niño to cool La...
by FishOutofWater
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 05:47 AM PDT
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just saw this story on the xitter! from the Guardian Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study Scientists have long known that bottom trawling – the practice of dragging massive nets along the seabed to catch fish – churns up...
by eeff
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 01:08 PM PST
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It’s pretty easy to get the salt out of seawater. All you have to do is boil it, freeze it, or just wait for rain! But those things take a lot of energy and/or time that many of us don’t have to spare. So people have been working on low-cost and...
by skralyx
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 08:51 PM PDT
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Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining since 2016 but this year the bottom dropped out. A new record low minimum extent (for the satellite era when measurements are accurate) happened in February. Ice extent recovery started out on a normal...
by FishOutofWater
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on Mon Sep 18, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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By Noah Alcala Bach The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief , The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Forecasters for ...
by Texas Tribune
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on Sat Aug 12, 2023 at 03:55 PM PDT
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A system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse by mid-century, according to a new study, and scientists have said before that such a collapse ...
by Associated Press
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 06:15 AM PDT
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A recent paper in Nature Communications “Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation” predicts a major change for the North Atlantic Ocean circulation between 2025 and 2095. The scientists who wrote this paper,...
by Peter Olandt
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 08:39 PM PDT
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What should be blue is going green. Global climate-change trends detected in indicators of ocean ecology [Link goes to Nature Satellite remote sensing is the only means to obtain time series of marine ecosystems on a global scale, because it is the...
by LaFeminista
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on Wed Jul 12, 2023 at 10:47 AM PDT
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 02:50 AM PDT
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Hurricanes drive heat deep into the ocean's water column boosting long-term warming. We all sense something is wrong. Glaciers melting, extreme drought, extreme rainfall, marine heatwaves, and searing land temperatures are all happening simultaneously....
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Jul 17, 2023 at 04:48 PM PDT
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El Niño, a warming of waters in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific ocean, has begun but it is not behaving typically. As El Niño has developed the North Atlantic ocean has warmed more rapidly than the equatorial eastern and central Pacific...
by FishOutofWater
99 comments
on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 01:09 PM PDT
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they make up 70% of Earth’s surface.� They harbor life at all depths. They make our climate, our food chain, our landscape, travel, and recreation.� They deserve our respect, and need our ...
by strawbale
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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**Conferences** Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War: Social and Economic Costs of the Current Nuclear Weapons Buildup Saturday, January 21 Addressing Climate Emergency for Small Islands States: The case of the Maldives Monday, January 30 **Lecture...
by gmoke
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on Sat Dec 31, 2022 at 02:11 PM PST
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Never think for a minute that what you say or do won’t make a difference. Large international meetings such as COP27 can lead to feelings of disempowerment and futility, but as Greta Thunberg showed one individual can spark a movement that inspires a...
by FishOutofWater
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on Fri Nov 11, 2022 at 12:10 PM PST
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Nearly four years ago, an analysis published in the journal Science found that the oceans were warming 40% faster than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had reported in its fifth climate assessment in 2014. This week that acceleration was...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu Oct 20, 2022 at 05:05 PM PDT
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The oceans are the world's garbage dump. It always has been and always will be, and the macro-plastic waste in the seas that we are familiar with, such as plastic bags, water bottles, single-use plastic foam containers, etc., kills marine life, from...
by Pakalolo
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on Thu Oct 20, 2022 at 06:05 AM PDT
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Adding to internal plastics limitations, Thailand is engaging incremental measures toward fully banning foreign plastic-scrap by 2025, joining Malayasia, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian nations aiming to curb regional toxic ocean pollution adversely...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Oct 05, 2022 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - August 2022 **Index** **Conferences** Decolonizing and Regrowing Our Food Systems Friday, August 5 - Sunday, August 7 —— TEDxBoston Traction Monday August 15 —— **Lecture Series** Flourish Fiction Summer Workshop...
by gmoke
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on Sat Jul 30, 2022 at 02:46 PM PDT
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