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Oceans

A New White House Plan Prioritizes Using the Ocean’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Ocean-based renewable energy could play a big role in decarbonizing the U.S., and healthier oceans can help stabilize the climate, the Ocean Climate Action Plan suggests.

By Bob Berwyn

The sun starts to rise behind an offshore wind farm off the Great Yarmouth coastline on July 19, 2006 in Norfolk, England. Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Fishermen pull up fish in their gillnet during a midwater pair trawl on the Gulf of Gascony sea, off the coast of France, on Jan. 8, 2020. Protecting high seas ecosystems would also benefit commercial fisheries nearer to the shore by boosting overall fish stocks. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

Can the New High Seas Treaty Help Limit Global Warming?

By Delaney Dryfoos, Bob Berwyn

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to reporters on the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 9, 2023. Credit: Xie E/Xinhua via Getty Images

Sea Level Rise Could Drive 1 in 10 People from Their Homes, with Dangerous Implications for International Peace, UN Secretary General Warns

By Bob Berwyn

An office worker returning home in Chittagong as the city faces unprecedented flooding due to rising sea level, the release of water from the Kaptai Lake, and the suspension of the Karnaphuli River dredging. Credit: K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images

Twice as Much Land in Developing Nations Will be Swamped by Rising Seas than Previously Projected, New Research Shows

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view of a heavily touristed reef near resort developments near Sharm El-sheikh, Egypt. Runoff from landscaping at the resorts is a potential threat to the health of the reefs. Credit: Bob Berwyn

The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A wave crashes off Teahupoo, Tahiti, on Aug. 28, 2019. Credit: Brian Bielmann/AFP via Getty Images

Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Demonstrators with The Animal Welfare Institute hold a rally to save the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise, outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2018. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

To Save the Vaquita Porpoise, Conservationists Entreat Mexico to Keep Gillnets Out of the Northern Gulf of California

By Delaney Dryfoos

Southern Resident killer whales encountered during NOAA's PODs (Pacific Orcinus Distribution Survey) in October 2021 near the west end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Two Towns in Washington Take Steps Toward Recognizing the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

By Katie Surma

A lobster roll is seen Thursday, July 2, 2015 at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Credit: Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

To Save Whales, Should We Stop Eating Lobster?

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Mother Jones

Reef fish swim above the coral on the reef in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Credit: Karen Bryan/HIMB/NOAA

Ocean Protection Around Hawaiian Islands Boosts Far-Flung ‘Ahi Populations

By Bob Berwyn

Increasing runoff of frigid meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet is disrupting an Atlantic Ocean current that moves warm and cold water between the Arctic and the Southern Ocean, which could lead to more thawing of frozen methane in partially organic seabed sediments, a new study suggests. Credit: Patrick Robert/Corbis via Getty Images

It’s Happened Before: Paleoclimate Study Shows Warming Oceans Could Lead to a Spike in Seabed Methane Emissions

By Bob Berwyn

Drone aerial view of Outer Banks Highway 12. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Shifting Sands: Carolina’s Outer Banks Face a Precarious Future

By Gilbert M. Gaul

A worker collect sand affected by an oil spill at a shoreline in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia, Aug. 4, 2019. Credit: Andrew Gal/NurPhoto via

New Study Identifies Rapidly Emerging Threats to Oceans

By Rachel Rodriguez, Bob Berwyn

Tons of dead fish float on the waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, beside the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 13, 2013. Credit: Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn

A person observes rain and wind as Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Oct. 9, 2020 in Lake Arthur, Louisiana. Credit: Go Nakamura/Getty Images

Ocean Warming Doubles Odds for Extreme Atlantic Hurricane Seasons

By Bob Berwyn

A species of zooplankton called Calanus finmarchicus floats in a sample jar in a laboratory at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on Sept. 2, 2015. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

A Big Climate Warning from One of the Gulf of Maine’s Smallest Marine Creatures

By Derrick Z. Jackson

Humpback whale seen near Tonga. Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Warming Trends: The Cacophony of the Deep Blue Sea, Microbes in the Atmosphere and a Podcast about ‘Just How High the Stakes Are’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A diver checks the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Major bleaching is occurring on the coral reefs of the islands in French Polynesia. The marine biologist teams from the Centre for Island Research and Environmental Observatory, specialists in coral ecosystems, are working on “resilient corals.” The teams identify, mark and perform genetic analysis of corals that are not impacted by thermal stress. They then produce coral cuttings which are grown in a “coral nursery” and compared to other colonies to study the resilience of the corals. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images).

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A diver looks at reef of a major bleaching on the coral reefs of the Society Islands on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn

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