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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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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

That’s why one recent survey recorded almost $160 million spent on forest offsets in 2019. Yet another natural sink absorbs about as much carbon dioxide as our planet’s soils and forests combined: the world’s coastal and ocean waters. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature.

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

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. We see headlines and think we understand the words in them: ‘glacial melt,’ ‘record heat,’ ‘ocean acidification,’ ‘increasing emissions,’” he writes. “If The personal works as an entry point.

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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

million barrels of oil daily in 2019 to 1.5 Carly Phillips, a research scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, told DeSmog that her organization had used the database to assign responsibility for rising sea levels , ocean acidification , and the increased frequency of forest fires. million barrels of oil.

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

Envirotec Magazine

Ocean acidification, global warming, pollution: the causes of these threats are many and particularly difficult to address, insofar as they are extremely diffuse, and result from our entire development paradigm. 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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Big Oil faces a flood of climate lawsuits — and they’re moving closer to trial

Grist

One of the cases that’s furthest along, filed by Massachusetts against Exxon Mobil in 2019, is already in the process of “discovery,” the last major step before a trial. In this stage, both sides try to uncover evidence that could help their case in court.