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5 Ways We Can Stop Ocean Acidification

The Environmental Blog

Although it may not be discussed frequently, ocean acidification is one of the biggest problems humanity (and the environment) faces today. The rising acidity of the ocean is not only harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems, but is impacting human industries that rely on the ocean’s resources.

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What are ‘planetary boundaries’ and why should we care?

Envirotec Magazine

If we keep going, we risk triggering a dramatic and potentially irreversible change in living conditions. Like all other living organisms, we survive by using Earth’s resources. Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. And this has happened extraordinarily recently.

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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. Thanks to their work, companies of all sizes soon may be able invest in ocean sequestration.

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Climate change is adversely affecting childrens health worldwide

AGreenLiving

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions.

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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. Thanks to their work, companies of all sizes soon may be able invest in ocean sequestration.

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Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

Grist

In the Indian Ocean, even coral species known to be resistant to hot temperatures are bleaching. This is one of the key living systems that we thought was closest to a tipping point,” said Tim Lenton, a professor of climate change and Earth systems at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.