Cooling the Gulf of Maine Surface Ocean Waters
None of us are strangers to the reports of the Gulf of Maine heating 97% faster than the world’s oceans. However, the actual reasons for this can be lost in …
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Touch the Earth Lightly, Use the Earth Gently
In Shetland’s Lerwick Harbor, the grey stone buildings stand close together. Rows of houses line streets that march downhill in curving lines to meet the sea. They buttress against the …
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Book Suggestion: “Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change” A New Book that Separates Fact from Fiction
Columbia University Press announces the forthcoming release of “Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions,” a compelling exploration of the natural world by renowned marine …
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Teen Environmentalist Attending The UN Summit of The Future Shares Her Fears & Hopes for The Planet
By Alexa Charouhis, We Are Forces of Nature Standing alone at the United Nations headquarters in New York, I grasped my newly printed Office Depot business cards as if they could …
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Easter Island, Hard Work & Good Cheer for a Changing Climate-Challenged World
The anchor chain clinked and clanked through the hawsehole on the Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde until the large anchor set into white coral sands turned periwinkle blue by clear ocean …
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Land & Sea Change for Earth Day, Expanding The Climate Change Narrative
By Rob Moir Have you ever considered how our perspective of climate change might shift if we focused not just on the sky above us but also on the earth …
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It’s Official: Coral Reefs are Facing a Mass Global Bleaching Event
Photo Banner Credit: The Ocean Agency / Ocean Image Bank This is the fourth global bleaching event in recorded history, the second to hit reefs in the past ten years. …
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Machine-Learning Model Demonstrates Effect of Public Breeding on Rice Yields in Climate Change
By Purdue University Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term fate of modern crop varieties. In a paper …
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Study Finds Drought Fuels Invasive Species After Wildfires
Study finds drought fuels invasive species after wildfires UCI biologists highlight critical link between drought, wildfires and coastal ecosystem transformations In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, University of …
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Climate Change Threatens Global Forest Carbon Sequestration, Study Finds
Written by Lauren Barnett, University of Florida Climate change is reshaping forests differently across the United States, according to a new analysis of U.S. Forest Service data. With rising temperatures, …
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