The Wilson Center hosted its Arctic Circle Forum June 21 to 22, bringing together experts on the region to discuss the latest happenings and opportunities in the polar North. Sea Technology attended the first day of the forum, which played up U.S.-Russia relations. Representatives from the Russian government emphasized that the bilateral bond is deteriorating with the sanctions having just
Read moreCapitol Hill Ocean Week is a three-day event, but the business of championing the oceans is ongoing throughout the year. If you’re in town, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, ranking member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, will hold a roundtable event aimed at promoting an informed dialog to help Congress and the public better understand the effects of climate
Read moreU.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, the historic global pact promising action to stem climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2° C above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5° C. Additionally, the agreement aims to
Read moreThe Paris Agreement, legally binding and now in force, set a target for managing climate change via global temperature. The target set was a limit on global temp rise of 1.5° C this century. However, a new study shows global temperature is rapidly approaching the Paris target. In the absence of external cooling influences, such as volcanic eruptions, temperature projections are
Read moreThe Arctic Eider Society won $750,000 in the Google.org Impact Challenge for their work with the Canadian Inuit and Cree communities as part of their environmental citizen scientist program. The data collected helps to better understand large-scale cumulative impacts of environmental change on the region’s ecosystem. The SIKU platform being used incorporates data from SonTek’s CastAway-CTD and Google technology to
Read moreClimate change skeptics are in full force in Congress today as U.S. House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith has called a full committee hearing on climate science. Democrats have responded by releasing: “Much Ado About Nothing”–A Minority Review of the Majority’s Climate Science Investigation. It says the hearing is likely to bring up–and dispute–the Karl study conducted by NOAA scientists,
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