Category Archives: Climate Change
New Resources on Fisheries Information from CERMES and FAO/Barbados
Inspired by a posting by Iris Monnereau (UNFAO/Barbados) and Georgina Bustamante on the CAMPAM e-mail list, Hazel Oxenford of CERMES/UWI Cave Hill (Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies) helped me put together these three recent articles or chapters about fisheries … [Read more]
Sinking Islands from The Sierra Club Magazine
from the Sierra Club Magazine for May, 2018 The World’s Sinking Islands Challenge Our Imagination Life on the Maldives and Marshall Islands, at the risky fringes of a warming world PHOTOS BY DAN LIN BY REBECCA SOLNIT | APR 26 … [Read more]
Hurricanes, Recovery, And Resiliency In The US Caribbean’s National Parks
[This article from Apple News presents some good insights into the enormous scale of the ecological impacts of major hurricanes — in this case, Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September and October of 2017. ] Hurricanes, Recovery, And Resiliency In … [Read more]
Another Perspective on the Need for DATA on WHAT WORKS
From the blog on the CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research, I think they do stuff with forests) web site at <http://blog.cifor.org/47876/time-to-get-it-together-on-mitigation-and-adaptation?fnl=en> Note that this article is based on a systematic survey of existing project documentation. WE NEED MORE, and, … [Read more]
Overfishing + Nutrients + Climate Change = Sick Reefs
Important Article from NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Click below to download — Authors and Abstract on this page Overfishing and Nutrient Pollution Interact with Temperature to Disrupt Coral Reefs Down to Microbial Scales. Jesse R. Zaneveld, Deron E. Burkepile, Andrew A. Shantz, Catharine … [Read more]
Review of Threats to Tropical Coastal Ecosystem Services
Dr. Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado of the University of Puerto Rico has just had an important new publication accepted in Volume 101, 15 December, pp 5-28 of the Marine Pollution Bulletin, entitled, “The emerging threats of climate change on tropical coastal … [Read more]
Research Study: Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone Management in the US Virgin Islands
Over the past year we have been consulting with some of the students in the graduate School of Forestry of Yale University on some papers that were written as a product of their field visit to the United States Virgin … [Read more]
Mangroves Can Cope with Sea Level Rise by Increasing Soil Height
[From a post by the Washington Office of IUCN, to the DC Marine Conservation e-mail group] 30-Jul-2013 A new report by The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International shows that mangroves can adapt … [Read more]
Huffington Post on Lemurs: speech by Russell Mittermeier, pres. Conservation International
Madagascar is one of the world’s most heavily impacted countries in terms of recent habitat destruction, and its globally unique species are sending us an urgent warning. Nearly 90 percent of its natural vegetation has already been lost, and erosion on the island is severe. [Read more]
International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations
from Nature:Letters (which suggests the article is not fully peer-reviewed), information about a very important study that illustrates the direct links between globalization and threats to biodiversity and important habitats. [Read more]
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