Climate Change and the Ocean: A Stark Message from the IPCC
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a jaw-dropping report that laid bare the choices that we must make to ensure a livable and equitable future in the face of climate change. Make no...
Climate Change and the Ocean: A Stark Message from the IPCC
There are few systems more complex—and more beautiful—than our natural ecosystems. Each element is like a Jenga piece—together, the pieces fit together perfectly, but when your tower begins to wobble, it can be hard to d...
NOAA Awards $3.5 Million to Research Impact of Acidification on Complex Ecosystems
How do you take a marine population that’s doing well and make sure it can continue to thrive in a warming, acidifying future? That’s the question my colleagues and I asked ourselves as we began our study of the U.S. Atl...
Scallops Need More Than Great Management to Weather Future Ocean Change
Alaska just announced a big step forward in leading the way to addressing the causes and effects of climate change. In Anchorage this week, the Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team delivered its recommended Alaska C...
North to the Future: Alaska’s Climate Action Leadership
“Ocean! Climate! Action!” Scores of ocean and climate leaders chanted in unison with Dr. Jane Lubchenco (former NOAA Administrator and renowned ocean scientist) at Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit las...
Our Ocean and Climate Change
By now you’ve probably heard about ocean acidification’s effects on oysters, clams and corals. But you might not know that acidification could affect entire food aquatic webs. In estuaries, where oceans and r...
8 Estuary Species That Need Your Help
This blog was written by Charmaine Dahlenburg, Manager of the National Aquarium’s Chesapeake Bay Program. Estuaries are necessary for the health of people and the planet. They capture and filter stormwater runoff, reduce...
Bringing the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
Taking the ocean into account is critical for successfully addressing global climate change. Addressing climate change is likewise critical for the future health of our ocean. The two are inextricably linked. Decades of...
What’s Big, Blue and Hiding in Plain Sight?
This week, California released its Fourth Climate Change Assessment, examining climate trends in California and how they affect the state’s citizens. Past assessments have reviewed the state of the science and the overal...
California Continues to Lead on Ocean and Climate
Dr. Janet Reimer, a postdoctoral research associate at University of Delaware, describes how regular coastal ocean monitoring provides clues about the sources of acidification in nearshore waters. When she’s not at work...