Isaac Held, Ph.D., a senior research scientist with the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., will receive the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his contributions to improved understanding of climate change and atmospheric circulation systems. He will accept the award at a ceremony in Madrid, Spain, in June. In his [...]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the ObamaAdministration today released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers andresource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, available [...]
Jan 20 2012 | Posted in
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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 15 January, 2012: I am pleased to be with you for this Assembly at the beginning of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. Abu Dhabi, home to IRENA and host of the [...]
Jan 18 2012 | Posted in
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Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost land the size of Delaware—about 1880 square miles. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, if this trend continues, Louisiana will lose a wetland area larger than the size of Manhattan every year. These losses are a disaster not just for citizens who are seeing their land wash away, but [...]
PRESS RELEASE: A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea. Frigid freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from three of Russia’s mighty rivers was diverted hundreds of miles to a completely different part of the ocean in response to a [...]
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, will begin in Durban, South Africa, today. Representatives of the world’s governments, international organizations and civil society will seek to advance, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Bali Action Plan, agreed at COP 13 in 2007, and the [...]
Nov 28 2011 | Posted in
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NOAA’s updated Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), which measures the direct climate influence of many greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, shows a continued steady upward trend that began with the Industrial Revolution of the 1880s. Started in 2004, the AGGI reached 1.29 in 2010. That means the combined heating effect of long-lived [...]
Nov 14 2011 | Posted in
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Direct effects of climate warming on biodiversity pose a serious conservation challenge for marine life, according to new research published today in Science. Marine life may need to relocate faster than land species as well as speed up alterations in the timing of major life cycle events. This challenges previous thinking that marine life in [...]
Nov 4 2011 | Posted in
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NASA’s new Aquarius instrument has produced its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface, providing an early glimpse of the mission’s anticipated discoveries. Aquarius, which is aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D (Satelite de Aplicaciones CientÃficas) observatory, is making NASA’s first space observations of ocean surface salinity variations – a key component of Earth’s climate. [...]
Coral reef managers in the Northern Mariana Islands will now receive early warning of dangerous environmental conditions that can weaken and kill high value coral reefs, thanks to a new coral observing station added today in Lao Lao Bay, Saipan. The new station is a first-of-its-kind for the Pacific region and joins a network of [...]
The history and future of ice will be explored at The Australian National University tonight in a public lecture that will cover science, humanities and climate change. In his inaugural lecture as the WK Hancock Professor of History, Tom Griffiths from the School of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU will [...]
Today, The Climate Reality Project (formerly the Alliance for Climate Protection) announced a new global campaign to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it. Â The campaign kicks off with 24 Hours of Reality, a worldwide, live streamed event on September 14-15. During the 24 Hours of Reality event, [...]
Jul 13 2011 | Posted in
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NOAA Ship Fairweather , a 231-foot survey vessel, departed Kodiak, Alaska, today on a mission to conduct hydrographic surveys in remote areas of the Arctic where depths have not been measured since before the U.S. bought Alaska in 1867. NOAA will use the data to update nautical charts to help mariners safely navigate this  important [...]
Jul 11 2011 | Posted in
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An international panel of marine experts warns in a report released today that the world’s ocean is at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history. The preliminary report arises from the first ever interdisciplinary international workshop to consider the cumulative impact of all stressors affecting the ocean. [...]
The findings are being  published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted by Andrew Kemp, Yale University; Benjamin Horton, University of Pennsylvania; Jeffrey Donnelly, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Vermeer, Aalto University School [...]
When NASA’s Aquarius mission launched this week, its radiometer instruments will take a “skin” reading of the oceans’ salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 inch (1 centimeter) of the ocean surface, Aquarius will create weekly and monthly maps of ocean surface salinity all over the globe for [...]
Jun 12 2011 | Posted in
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