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Monday, 06 February 2012 18:44 |
By Sarah-Jayne Russell –The Environmentalist – February 3, 2012The free assessment tool, created by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), uses data from the UK Climate Projections programme to forecast the effect changing rainfall patterns, increasing temperatures and rising sea levels will have on wetlands. For full story, click here.
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Monday, 30 January 2012 18:53 |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the publication of the "Climate Ready Estuaries 2011 Progress Report," which describes program accomplishments as well as the new National Estuary Program projects launched during 2011. The progress report also uses examples from Climate Ready Estuaries projects started in 2008-2010 to show how the risk management paradigm can be used for climate change adaptation. Climate Ready Estuaries is an EPA program intended to help the National Estuary Programs and coastal managers plan for climate change. Climate Ready Estuaries works with National Estuary Programs to: (1) assess climate change vulnerabilities, (2) develop and implement adaptation strategies, and (3) engage and educate stakeholders. The "Climate Ready Estuaries 2011 Progress Report" is available here.
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Friday, 20 January 2012 17:26 |
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The first annual Climate Leadership Conference will be held from February 29-March 1, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The conference will bring together leaders from business, government and academic institutions, and the non-profit community interested in exchanging ideas and information on how to address climate change while simultaneously running their operations more competitively and sustainably. For more information, click here. |
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:00 |
The Yaquina Wavelength – January 16, 2012The Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project features Mary Kentula, a Wetland Ecologist from the US EPA Western Ecology Division January 17 at 5:30 p.m. The free event is in the second floor meeting room of the Newport Visual Arts Center. Kentula’s research includes monitoring and assessing wetlands at the regional and watershed scales, and restoration ecology of wetlands. For full story, click here.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:41 |
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Monday, 06 February 2012 18:41 |
By Matt McDermott – Treehugger – February 1, 2012 The combined impact of climate change and expanding human population means that tropical cyclones will cause more than four times the damage in 2100 than they do today, increasing from $26 billion to $109 billion. New research published in Nature Climate Change shows that as the population grows to 9 billion people, something expected to happen by perhaps 2040, more people and more infrastructure will be put in the path of tropical cyclones. That alone is projected to double the damage from these storms, $56 billion by the end of the century. Climate change is project to nearly double again the damage cyclones cause, adding $53 billion a year to extreme weather bill. For full story, click here.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:27 |
Juliette Jowit – The Guardian (UK) – January 25, 2012
Flooding is the greatest threat to the UK posed by climate change, with up to 3.6 million people at risk by the middle of the century, according to a report published on Thursday by the environment department. For full story, click here.
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Friday, 20 January 2012 17:15 |
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National Strategy Proposed to Respond to Climate Change’s Impacts on Fish, Wildlife, Plants Contact: David T. Eisenhauer – USFWS – January 19, 2012In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama Administration today released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers and resource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, available for public review and comment through March 5, 2012, can be found, here. To read full press release, click here.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:59 |
NOAA Habitat Conservation
One of the challenges facing incorporation of the carbon sequestration ecosystem services of marine coastal wetlands into voluntary markets is lack of scientific information on the actual rates of flux of carbon (emissions and storage). One of the ways to address this challenge is through the development of easy-to-use, in-the-field technology/instrumentation or software that can improve carbon or greenhouse gas quantification, for instance, measuring flux and sequestration rates for different coastal types. The 2012 SBIR solicitation includes a specific sub-topic (research area) on “Quantification of Green House Gas Fluxes in Coastal Ecosystems”.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:22 |
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