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UN Clean Seas Campaign Aims to Eliminate Ocean Plastic

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Dell Computers and a cast of celebrities have joined UNEP’s “Clean Seas Campaign” in a bid to eliminate ocean plastic.

Latest Projections of Regional Sea Level Rise Emphasize Need for Ongoing Research, Adaptation Planning

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Sea level rise along all U.S. coasts barring Alaska is projected to be higher than the global average in the three worst-case scenarios — 0.3-1 meter or more come 2100 — according to the latest projections from a public-private climate research partnership led by NOAA

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Nations Accelerate Plans to Realize UN Biodiversity Conservation Goals

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Mexico established four new biological reserves and five other protected areas as representatives from more than 190 UN member nations adopted the Cancun Declaration, stepping up their efforts to conserve biological diversity. Will it be enough to curtail a Sixth Great Extinction?

Prime Beachfront Property: Washed Away by Rising Tides

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Nearly 100 feet of prime beach has been lost in the popular Maya Riviera resort town of Playa del Carmen since 2010 despite the millions spent to preserve it. Hotel and resort owners in Cancun once again are calling on Mexico’s federal government to bail them out.

East Asia Climate Change: Typhoon are getting more intense

East Asia Typhoon Intensity on the Rise as G20 Leaders Meet in China

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

East Asia typhoons have been increasing in intensity, a trend that is expected to continue and take a heavier toll throughout the western Pacific rim and posing greater challenges to regional and world leaders.

Rising Ocean Temperatures Lead to Increase in Marine Pathogens and Infections

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

In a landmark research paper an international team of marine microbiologists concludes that rising sea surface temperatures are leading to population booms of the marine pathogen Vibrio cholerae and other members of the genus in Northern Atlantic waters.

The beauty of the ocean hides within it troubling secrets, such as a decrease in oxygen levels that could lead to increasing "dead zones"

Ocean Oxygen : Suffocating the Seas

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Ocean breathing – From the shallows down to its yawning depths, the ocean gets its oxygen from the surface, supplied either by the atmosphere or from the release of oxygen in phytoplankton through photosynthesis. Scientists have long known that one expected consequence from a warming climate is a gradual drop in the amount of oxygen dissolved into ocean waters as they absorb…

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