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Perth, AUSTRALIA — A study of marine sponges has found global temperature rises may have already exceeded 1.5 degrees.
The University of Western Australia-led research extracted 300 years of ocean temperature records preserved in ancient sea sponges.
Lead author Emeritus Professor Malcolm McCulloch...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN AMOA — A new study by the University of Auckland argues coral atolls could out-grow sea level rise.
The paper says the atoll islands are naturally growing at a pace of several millimetres a year by accreting sediment, enough to outpace most sea level rise predictions.
Lead...
MIAMI (AP) — Humans don’t know what they’re missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.” Just below the keels of massive ships, an underwater camera provides a live feed from another world, showing marine life that’s trying its best to resist global...
Berkeley, CA — Scientists regularly study the ongoing degradation of Earth’s environment and track the changes wrought by a warming planet. Economists warn that intensifying disasters are harming people’s quality of life. And policymakers focus on crafting rules to diminish the health and...
COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.
Minutes later, like clockwork, they see eggs and sperm from spawning coral drifting past their boat. They scoop up the...
(AP) — Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”
“It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse...
Suva, FIJI — The chair of the Pacific Islands Forum has welcomed the re-entry of the United States to the Paris climate agreement.
Within hours of taking the oath as the 46th US President, Joe Biden issued an executive order for the US to return to the Paris Agreement.
Forum Chair Kausea Natano,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fofo County Rep. Andra Samoa was interviewed late Saturday afternoon on the Leone village shoreline by Johan Bergendorff, global health correspondent of Sweden’s public broadcaster, Swedish Radio on climate change and sea level rise impacting Leone village.
Rep. Samoa...
I love going back home. In fact, it’s really the only thing that gets me through Harvard’s rough semesters and Boston’s brutally cold weather. Thoughts of returning home to the beautiful beaches and the shimmering Pacific ocean that surrounds my beautiful American Samoa. Memories of riding in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The impact of climate change in American Samoa has been painted graphically by the US Coral Reef Task Force.
The Task Force has been holding workshops this week in Pago Pago.
Fatima Sauafea Leau of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric office in American Samoa said the...