Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

The typical stories of environmentally-driven collapse that you might have heard about Easter Island or the Mayan civilization? An engraving depicts Europeans measuring statues on the Polynesian island of Easter Island, 1786. All those stories need to be retold, absolutely,” he said. degrees C (5.8 Hulton Archive / Getty Images.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The greatest impacts of this mass bleaching event were seen in the Indian Ocean, Japan, and the Caribbean, with smaller impacts observed in the Red Sea, The Gulf, the northern Pacific in Hawaii and the Caroline Islands, and the southern Pacific in Samoa and New Caledonia.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Ocean warming may cause small states in the Pacific Islands to struggle economically due to fish loss. A recent study published in the journal Nature Sustainability has found that tuna caught in 10 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will decline by an average of 20% by 2050. Via EcoWatch Lead image via Pexels.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Australia is courting workers from Pacific islands, raising fears of a brain drain exodus of skilled professionals from the region.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Planet in the Asia-Pacific region Planet designs, builds, and operates the world’s largest fleet of Earth observation satellites with a mission to use space to help life on Earth – as evidenced through projects like those above working in areas of food security, ecosystem rehabilitation and disaster response.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

The lush island nation of Samoa and the densely packed urban neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn may seem to have little in common. Across the Asia-Pacific region, Marubeni is also working with GridMarket to help its affiliates, including manufacturing facilities and data centers, reach their sustainability goals.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 17, 2023

But there can be discrepancies between what’s reported – whether that’s rice paddy crop production like in the Odisha case, harvested forests in New Zealand, or an unclear sense of disaster damage in the Pacific Islands – and what can be seen from space.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 30, 2023

Member Spotlight: UTOPIA Washington The United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance of Washington ( UTOPIA Washington ) is led by and supports the queer and trans Pacific Islanders (QTPIs, pronounced “cutie pies”) community in South King County.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2021

But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what researchers had imagined would occur later this century. They aren’t really tools that were expected to be really good at simulating regional-scale climate extremes.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

SOO Green’s uniqueness is that it is all underground and uses the Canadian Pacific rail right-of-way. Projects like SOO Green are a quick fix for FERC because they are inter-regional, use existing right-of-way, and meet the renewable energy demand. ” SOO Green would be an inter-regional transmission project.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 27, 2021

Region by Region. The region was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic downturn. Once the main draw for corporate procurement in the region, Mexico saw deal volumes all but dissipate, as the current administration continues to undermine the country’s clean energy sector. While the U.S. GW in 2020.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has this afternoon urged member states and shipping operators to reduce the black carbon emissions produed by shipping in the Arctic, in a move that campaigners said would send a strong message to regional and state policymakers to take action to tackle the pollutant.

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Front And Centered

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Our first regional conversation will be in Yakima on November 21st – please sign up here to stay updated! . ” Lua Pritchard, the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Culture Center, reminded us of the grave dangers of climate change. We look forward to continuing these important conversations.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Using new models to assess impacts at country and regional levels, the analysis builds on estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that climate-induced declines in ocean health will cost the annual global economy $428 billion by 2050 and $1.979 trillion by 2100.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Microgrids supplement macrogrids by handling power inconsistencies from regional renewables and provide additional services to bulk power systems and sensitive loads. In the next few years, this is projected to open up lucrative sales opportunities in the global microgrids market. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Researchers predict a major marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean could prove disastrous to the fragile coral reefs along Hawaii’s Papa Bay and similar coastlines. Related: ‘The Blob’ returns — marine heatwave settles over Pacific Unfortunately, when water is too warm, coral become stressed.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 1, 2019

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Grist

JULY 14, 2021

Two weeks ago, an unprecedented “heat dome” turned the Pacific Northwest into an oven, killing more than 200 people in Washington and Oregon and hundreds more in British Columbia. For studies on heat, Ebi said, scientists sometimes analyze the top 95 percent of temperatures in a given region. degrees on Sunday.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The report looks at the coral reefs along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and is the first of its kind to take a comprehensive look at major coral reefs in the U.S., including around the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and Hawaii. The state of ocean warming and acidification is on the rise in most coastal regions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

Further south, Latin America also saw PPA volumes drop, declining from 2GW in 2019 to 1.5GW in 2020, as the region was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and a concomitant economic downturn. The Asia Pacific (APAC) region also saw record corporate clean energy purchases, with firms announcing contracts for 2.9GW of solar and wind generation.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

Baltic Eagle - which is located in the Baltic Sea north of the island of Rügen - will have a total capacity of 476MW when it is completed in 2024, Iberdrola said. The projects form part of the energy company's Baltic Hub, which will have a total capacity of 1.1GW and is one of the largest offshore wind clusters in the region.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

The result: a shift in the historic geographiclocations of different types of fish which are now being found in unusual regions. Of these foreign landings, 12 were from tropical or subtropical regions. In the Pacific Northwest, ocean acidification has killed oysters.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

The most recent data out of Kinabalu Park, a UNESCO-listed heritage site located on the island of Borneo, is finally turning industry heads, as they shows the scales have tipped in favor of phytomining’s commercial viability. “We One example is soil abundant in tropical regions that typically contain 0.5

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

The Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021 was one of the most extreme ever recorded globally , a “ historic, dangerous, prolonged, and unprecedented ” event that took a hefty toll on people and infrastructure. degrees F) of warming could turn something like the Pacific Northwest’s freak heat dome into a once-in-a-decade affair.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Coastal GasLink pipeline, under construction by TC Energy, will bring fracked natural gas from British Columbia to the Pacific Coast for export at a facility partly owned by oil giant Shell. The RCMP also detained two journalists covering the events. It’s a remarkable backdrop. RCMP crackdown on journalists has reached a crescendo.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Historical range: Powassan virus has mainly been found around the Great Lakes and in the Northeast, but, between 2016 and 2020, cases were reported as far away from those regions as North Dakota and North Carolina. Virgin Islands. Cases have cropped up recently in the Pacific Northwest and non-desert areas in the Southwest.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

But the past few years have been spectacularly challenging ones for California energy policy, led by Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy and the threat of more wildfires leading the state’s other big utilities toward insolvency.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

As a consequence, fisheries are declining worldwide – in the world’s most populous region, the Asia-Pacific, they are on course to decline to zero by 2048. More than a third of the world’s lands are now devoted to crop or livestock production, putting increasing pressure on the world’s forests, which we all need to breathe.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2020

To date, the Guardian estimates that more than 26 million acres of land have burned nationwide — a region larger than Indiana. Since early November , vast smoke plumes have been wafting from eastern Australia all the way across the Pacific to the shores of South America. Which is exactly what’s been happening.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 31, 2023

Today we’re looking at how a number of the Pacific Island Countries are doing exactly that. This seismic activity sent a tsunami across the South Pacific, impacting many island nations. Planet SkySat image of the erupted Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai volcano off the coast of Tonga taken January 7, 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

2021 has been a scorching year for extreme heat events across North America - cities across the usually temperate Pacific Northwest reached temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in July. The region broke its own record again the next day when temperatures soared to almost 120 degrees F.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 3, 2020

But the entire terrain of Chile from east to west all heads towards the Pacific Ocean, where, with its soothing ocean breezes, the temperatures are regulated and consistent all year round. The central region of Chile produces its world-famous wines and fruit. In the southern zone, the primary commerces are fishing and summer tourism.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

They hopped the Long Island Sound in the 1980s and invaded the Catskill Mountains a decade or so after that. Those streams are used for swimming, fishing, and recreation — a major part of the Northeast’s regional identity. For a time, the pest’s range was capped by the Northeast’s cold winter temperatures.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

Singapore, April 1 2020 - Ricoh Asia Pacific (Ricoh), the Japanese multinational imaging electronics company, today launched its 14th annual Eco Action Day campaign. Clean energy is a growing topic of interest in Singapore and Asia Pacific. They can pledge their support at www.ecoaction.sg.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

The diplomat, who co-led one of the key negotiating tracks at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow last year, is a long-standing advocate for bolder climate action and an influential figure in the alliance of climate vulnerable and island states.

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Grist

MAY 24, 2023

territory in the western Pacific on Wednesday morning. Floods from a surging sea and relentless rain could pose an even greater risk to the island, although the extent of damage caused by the storm isn’t clear yet. Trees tumbled, trucks flipped, and solar panels flew through the air in Guam as Typhoon Mawar pummeled the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The story of how that lower limit became enshrined belongs to a large number of small island countries and vulnerable regions. However, on December 11, in the final stretch of negotiations, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) called for a limit of 1.5°C And so they fought.

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