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    Archive for 'Oceans & Coasts'

    Cool Green Morning: Friday, November 6

    U.S. fish stocks defecting to Canada? We can just see it now on Lou Dobbs Tonight…but remember where you heard it first — Cool, Green, Morning. Have a great weekend!

    Seems fishy, but overall U.S. water consumption has declined in the past 25 years — despite a growing population and increasing water use. Huh? Tina Casey [...]

    From Long Island to the Solomon Islands, Communities Tackle Climate Change

    As UN negotiators from around the world gather in Barcelona this week to continue hammering out a global climate deal, the question of emissions reduction targets has grabbed center stage in the press.
    But even if all countries stopped emitting greenhouse gas pollution today, the impacts of climate change will be felt for years to come.
    We [...]

    What Do the Olympics Mean for Rio’s Environment?

    Naturally we in the Cidade Maravilhosa are delighted to have beaten out the Windy City and snatched the 2016 Olympics from under the nose of the not-quite-glamorous-enough First Couple of the United States: even Obama can’t compete with Copacabana when it comes to wowing Olympic committees.
    But now that the cheering has died down along with [...]

    Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders

    My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing. The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were [...]

    Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 13

     
    Good morning, Cool Green News addicts! We know you missed us yesterday, but we’re back with some hot links to get your day started. Dams are coming down, a literary classic offers lessons in the climate change debate and a note of hope emerges around the U.S. climate change bill currently stalled in the Senate. Read [...]

    Putting Conservation Pieces Back Together: The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force

    I saw an old map recently that showed that parts of the National Mall here in Washington were once a tidal marsh attached to the Potomac River. I like to imagine places as they were before people plowed them up, filled them in, built cities on them. That marsh must have been beautiful, with great [...]

    Choosing Sustainable Fish: Whose Responsiblity Is It?

    In a recent New York Times blog, Mark Bittman points to a U.K. survey that says 90 percent of diners want sustainable fish on restaurant menus and claim they’re willing to put their money where their mouths are — but most of those people don’t currently choose fish from sustainable sources.
    So it must be the [...]

    Governors’ Global Climate Summit: Day 2

    After yesterday’s star-studded kickoff, today’s discussions at the Governor’s Global Climate Summit in California started on a more sobering note. The topic: adaptation to the inevitable impacts of climate change.
    Let’s face it. Climate change hurts: 

    Coastal flooding will continue to displace more and more people from their homes. 
    Increasing droughts are going to make it even harder for the [...]

    Ticking Clock for Coral Reefs and Climate Change

    I should start out by reminding readers that I am a coral reef optimist, as previously stated in my first Cool Green Science blog post.
    However, the news this week for coral reefs – and the ocean in general – is alarming and my optimism may quickly disappear if the global community doesn’t take appropriate action in short order.
    What’s [...]

    Listening to Coral Reefs: It’s Loud

    Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her  posts from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and climate [...]

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