Sentences with phrase «new ocean protection»

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«Our proposals will raise protection and management of our seas to a new level, halting the decline in biodiversity to create clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.»

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announced the release of the final Ocean Action Plan, the first - ever comprehensive 10 - year blueprint to guide the protection and conservation of New York's ocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chOcean Action Plan, the first - ever comprehensive 10 - year blueprint to guide the protection and conservation of New York's ocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chocean acidification due to climate change.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

In September, it released a draft National Ocean Policy emphasizing protection of the oceans and recommended that a new National Ocean Council (NOC) be formed to implement the policy and improve planning.

Lake County News covers a new report exploring seagrass and kelp as an ocean acidification management tool in California, produced in partnership with the Ocean Protection Couocean acidification management tool in California, produced in partnership with the Ocean Protection CouOcean Protection Council.

The study by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), a United Nations advisory body, provides a new estimate of the extent that human beings are altering the cycling of nitrogen in the oceans.

Wallace was co-founder and convener of the New Zealand arm of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), an international alliance of more than 200 organizations from 40 nations that worked on the comprehensive protection of Antarctica and repudiation of the Antarctic Minerals Convention.

New Yerba Mate company supports mission of leading grassroots coastal protection organization to protect the ocean, waves and beaches for the future

The Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to the protection of the ocean and coasts, and Yachak Organic, a new natural yerba mate brand, today announced the launch of a collaboration to support the protection of clean water and healthy beaches.

Coral reefs, mangroves and even some fish could soon have their own insurance policies as the industry seeks new ways to boost protection for those affected by the ocean changes wrought by climate change.

Though «climate denial starts at the top,» the New York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»

New York — one of the largest markets for shark fins outside Asia and the largest port of entry for shark fins on the East Coast — joins seven states and all three Pacific U.S. territories in passing similar laws to provide critical protection to sharks and preserve the health of the world's ocean ecosystems.

If enacted, New York — one of the largest markets for shark fins outside Asia and the largest port of entry for shark fins on the East Coast — would join seven states and all three Pacific U.S territories in passing similar laws to provide critical protection to sharks and preserve the health of the world's ocean ecosystems.

He didn't immediately respond to questions, sent by National Observer on Monday, about what Kinder Morgan lobbied him about in his new position and whether it had any impact on massive public investments that the government would later make on an Oceans Protection Plan, in direct relation to the Trans Mountain project.