Warning Signs Abound for the Importance of Passing an Energy and Climate Bill
With the Gulf Coast oil disaster poignantly demonstrating America’s oil addiction along with the release of the American Power Act, the moment for passing a climate and energy bill is now.read more
View Article44 Members of Congress Urge EPA to Use Clean Water Act to Address Ocean...
Representatives Lois Capps (Democrat, California), Sam Farr (Democrat, California), Jay Inslee (Democrat, Washington) and 41 other Members of Congress on Friday (21 May 2010) sent a letter to...
View ArticleEastern Oysters in Jeopardy from Ocean Acidification
Newly published research results reveal that increased ocean acidity in parts of the Chesapeake Bay along the East Coast reduces rates of juvenile oyster shell formation. Researchers warn that a...
View ArticleOcean Acidification is an Additional Hazard of America’s Oil Addiction
As oil continues to spew into the Gulf of Mexico, the hazards of America’s oil addiction on coastal communities and fishermen is not limited to oil drilling. The burning of fossil fuels such as oil is...
View ArticleAmerican Lobster’s Future in a Changing Climate
How the American Lobster will fair with climate change is uncertain, but projections show habitat shifts and an increasingly stressful environment.read more
View ArticleVideo: Climate Change, Ocean Acidification and the Arctic Ocean
With the extent of Arctic sea ice presently at the second lowest level on record for the date, we are reminded of the growing threats to the Arctic ocean posed by rising atmospheric greenhouse gas...
View ArticleOcean Acidification Featured in New Video and Lesson Plan
Dr Heidi Cullen of Climate Central explains in this video featuring Otis Brown of Miami University that more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere is absorbed by the oceans....
View ArticleVideos: The Death of the Oceans?
In this new documentary broadcast by BBC Two as part of its Horizon series, Sir David Attenborough takes the audience around the world to meet scientists studying our impacts on the oceans, from...
View ArticleUN Report Calls for "Immediate Global Response" to Save Coral Reefs from...
"Coral reefs are facing unprecedented impacts due to climate change, through a combination of threats including damage from increasingly severe tropical cyclones, more frequent temperature-induced...
View ArticleU.S. Proposes to Categorize Ringed and Bearded Seals as "Threatened"
The U.S. government proposed yesterday (3 Dec 2010) to list four subspecies of ringed seals and two populations of bearded seals -- all in the Arctic region -- as threatened under the Endangered...
View ArticleRising ocean temperatures and acidity may prove a deadly one-two punch for...
A recent experiment by scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama has revealed just how rising atmospheric carbon dioxide will deliver a one-two punch to coral reefs in coming...
View ArticleWhite House Reports on Climate Change Adaptation, as Communities Face Rising...
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Friday (28 October 2011) released a second annual progress report from the government’s...
View ArticleVideo and Transcript: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Al Franken Team Up for...
Yesterday evening (14 December 2011) Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) and Al Franken (Democrat, Minnesota) spent an hour on the floor of the U.S. Senate repudiating climate change...
View ArticleScientists Release Findings of Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment, Warn of...
An international group of scientists on Monday (6 May 2013) released the findings of their Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), which...
View ArticleWWF Climate Blog Has Moved to New Location
The WWF climate blog now is located at a different Web address: worldwildlife.org/blogs/wwf-climate-blog. All posts since May 2013 are at that location, while older posts will remain archived on this...
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