Top Story Credit: www.twin-loc.fr/Flickr ‘Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade.
Politics Credit: Ashley Satanosky on Unsplash Craig Pittman: As ocean turns more acidic, Florida officials ignore warning signs Florida’s seafood industry’s concerns don’t matter to climate deniers in government.
ImpactsNOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory/Flickrhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Rivers are drowning in toxic sludge Harmful algal blooms are taking over as the world warms and grows richer in carbon dioxide—and there’s no easy fix.
NewsletterGage Skidmore/Flickr/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ DeSantis, Florida environmental protection agency attacked by watchdog The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has again criticized what it calls Florida's lax environmental enforcement.
ResilienceWarren Baverstock / Ocean Image Bank The weird way that human waste is killing corals Wastewater fuels blooms of reef-smothering algae. Better engineering and an army of funny-looking fish can come to the rescue.
Photo by Joss Woodhead on Unsplash California algae bloom is making sea lions aggressive, researchers say Hundreds of aggravated sea lions have emerged on Southern California beaches after consuming toxic algae, researchers say.
Impacts Photo by R. David Cummins on Unsplash New era begins for ‘dead zone’ tracking in Chesapeake Bay The main objective is to give Bay scientists a clearer understanding of where and when low-oxygen conditions occur.
