In cooperation with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama Administration today released the first nationwide strategy to help public and private decision makers prepare for and reduce the current and future impacts of climate change on species, habitats, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them.
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Dec 24, 2012Adaptation
EPA announces the release of the final National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change, following a public comment period.
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Dec 6, 2012Oceans
A new sea level rise scenarios report was released today by NOAA's Climate Program Office in collaboration with twelve contributing authors from ten different federal and academic science institutions.
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Jun 25, 2012Oceans
Rates of sea level rise are increasing three-to-four times faster along portions of the U.S. Atlantic Coast than globally, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report published in Nature Climate Change.
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Mar 13, 2012Oceans
A new study concludes that the current rate of ocean acidification is higher than at any time in at least the last 300 million years and attributes this ecosystem-threatening change to the huge quantities of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation.
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Aug 30, 2010Oceans
A new study co-authored by USGS scientists has used genomics to show that a distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age.
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Jun 3, 2009Oceans
News (dtd 1 May 2009) from the National Science Foundation.
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Jun 3, 2009Oceans
News (dtd 4 May 2009) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.









