NASA’s launch of the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) in 1997 began what is now a continuous, global view of both land and ocean life. A new animation captures the entirety of this 20-year record, made possible by multiple satellites, compressing a decades-long view of life on Earth into a captivating few minutes. Watch the full video and read more
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“Ambition 1.5˚C: Global Shipping’s Action Plan” is a summit held in Bonn, Germany today as part of the 23rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The summit is meant to facilitate group-think activities and capture ideas from cross-industry, high-level working groups to develop innovative solutions for rapid decarbonization of the
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is holding its 76th annual meeting at the Waterside Marriott Hotel in Norfolk, VA Oct. 16-19, 2017, and daily proceedings are available to watch via live webcast. Beginning today and expected to conclude by Thursday, Oct. 19 at 3:00 p.m., the webinar will allow registrants to listen to deliberations and view presentations and motions as
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If you haven’t seen “Chasing Coral” yet, we highly recommend you watch it. (It’s streaming now on Netflix.) This engaging documentary successfully communicates the immediacy of the problem of climate change by showing the devastating effects of rising temperatures on coral reefs. Rising temperatures trigger coral bleaching, which can result in the death of these coastal ecosystems that are crucial
Read moreThe Montreal Protocol, the international treaty adopted to restore Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1989, has significantly reduced emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals from the U.S. In a twist, a new study shows the 30-year old treaty has had a major side benefit of reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. That’s because the ozone-depleting substances controlled by the treaty
Read moreA 1 trillion-tonne iceberg–one of the biggest ever recorded–calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica earlier this month. Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie. It was already floating before it calved away, so it has no immediate impact on sea level. Although the remaining ice shelf will continue to regrow naturally, Swansea researchers have previously shown that the new
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