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How will climate change affect microplastics already in the environment?

Envirotec Magazine

The project focuses on understanding the secondary pathways through which microplastics enter the environment, such as from storm events, wave action, UV exposure and extreme temperature changes. As far as we know this is the first time this has been looked at in conjunction with climate change.”

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

DeSmogBlog

After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family.

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The new vocabulary of climate change was written in Icelandic

Grist

We see headlines and think we understand the words in them: ‘glacial melt,’ ‘record heat,’ ‘ocean acidification,’ ‘increasing emissions,’” he writes. “If If the scientists are right, these words indicate events more serious than anything that has happened in human history up to now. The personal works as an entry point.

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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

Ocean acidification, global warming, pollution: the causes of these threats are many and particularly difficult to address, insofar as they are extremely diffuse, and result from our entire development paradigm. Large scale coral bleaching events are the greatest disturbance to the world’s coral reefs. Key findings.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification. Wolf hopes that spurring demand for plant-derived shrimp will have upstream effects, such as boosting beneficial ocean-based agriculture while reducing demand for farmed shrimp.

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Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

Grist

Earlier this month, the world officially entered its fourth — and probably worst — mass coral bleaching event in history, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Coral Reef Initiative. In the Indian Ocean, even coral species known to be resistant to hot temperatures are bleaching. “You

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Legal Action Against High Emitters Failing to Use Latest Climate Science, Study Finds

DeSmogBlog

Attribution science studies how greenhouse gas emissions contribute to specific extreme events such as storms, droughts, heatwaves or floods as well as slower changes in average temperature and rainfall. It found most did not quantify the extent to which climate change was responsible for the climate-related events affecting the plaintiffs.