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Leveraging the ocean's carbon removal potential

GreenBiz

In addition to these opportunities, a range of ocean-based carbon removal approaches could help capture and store billions of tons of carbon. Importantly, these approaches would not increase ocean acidification. The ocean absorbs just under one-third of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, contributing to a rise in ocean acidification.

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How will climate change affect microplastics already in the environment?

Envirotec Magazine

Understanding why climate change might contribute to increasing plastic pollution is the focus of a new research project starting this month at the University of Portsmouth. As far as we know this is the first time this has been looked at in conjunction with climate change.”

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action. Drawing from Icelandic mythology, science, and his family’s history, Magnason gives the vocabulary of climate change new charge. The personal works as an entry point.

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Michael Mann: Australia, Your Country Is Burning – Dangerous Climate Change Is Here With You Now

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It too is now threatened by climate change. By Michael Mann. I witnessed this firsthand.

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

Envirotec Magazine

Ocean-acidification is still, just, in the green, and so is aerosol pollution and dust. But on climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, synthetic chemicals such as plastics, freshwater depletion, and nitrogen/phosphorus use, we’re well out of the safer zone.

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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. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.

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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. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.