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Ocean Conservation: Ocean Acidification and the Impacts of Fish Migration

Green Tech Challenge

Put simply, ocean acidification is the imbalance of chemical content in ocean water; whereby there is increased acidity, and upward temperature changes. The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century. Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem.

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. On Time and Water , which topped the bestseller list in Iceland when it came out in 2019, has been translated into more than 20 languages.

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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change. All the while, the effects of climate change — the heat waves, the blazes, the wildfire smoke — have only grown more obvious, and more costly.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019.

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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

Corals reefs across the world are under relentless stress from warming caused by climate change and other local pressures such as overfishing, unsustainable coastal development and declining water quality. Between 2010 and 2019, the amount of algae has increased by 20 per cent, corresponding with declines in hard coral cover.

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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

Envirotec Magazine

This is a key finding of a new scientific report, “The Ocean as a Solution for Climate Change: 5 Opportunities for Action” , published on 23 September at the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York. Global action to address the state of the ocean has never been more urgent.

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