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Taxonomy Archive: oceans
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change influences on marine infectious diseases: implications for management and society
Infectious diseases are common in marine environments, but the effects of a changing climate on marine pathogens are not well understood. Here we review current knowledge about how the climate drives host-pathogen interactions and infectious disease outbreaks. Climate-related impacts on marine diseases are being documented in corals, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Oceans and Human Health: a rising tide of challenges and opportunities for Europe
The European Marine Board recently published a position paper on linking oceans and human health as a strategic research priority for Europe. With this position paper as a reference, the March 2014 Cornwall Oceans and Human Health Workshop brought together key scientists, policy makers, funders, business, and non governmental ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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US Effort on Ocean Acidification Needs Focus on Human Impacts
This article presents the impact of ocean acidification on human health, food security, and local economies. Acidification is one of the larger problems associated with greenhouse gas emissions, as oceans serve as a giant sponge for carbon dioxide. When carbon dioxide is dissolved in seawater, water chemistry changes and acidity ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Addressing Social Vulnerability and Equity in Climate Change Adaptation Planning
As planning for sea level rise and extreme storm events moves forward, so too should state objectives for achieving environmental justice and equity for all Californians. The purpose of this white paper is to highlight the links between equity and planning for sea level rise and storm events and is designed to inform the Adapting ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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How to Talk about Climate Change and the Ocean
FrameWorks’ research on the communications aspects of climate change, however, strongly suggests that science communicators do not have to choose between appealing to people’s hearts and heads – and that in fact, a strategy that eschews this false dichotomy is more likely to increase public support for meaningful ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Water Resources
For many indigenous peoples of the United States, water is not just a physical necessity; it is sacred, and essential to many cultural traditions. In the early 1800s, in an effort to protect access to this vital resource, many tribes secured water rights in treaties with the United States government for water found on tribal […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ocean Acidification – Effects on Humans
Ocean acidification will have drastic effects on shelled organisms and on coral reefs, but what about its effects on humans? Many people mistakenly believe that the oceans may be turning to acid, and that it will no longer be safe for humans enter the water. This is not true, even in the most extreme scenarios […]
20 Apr 2018 |
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Healthy oceans, healthy people
A groundbreaking study released in the journal Nature last week underscored something many of us have long known to be true: around the world, human health is inextricably linked to the health of the oceans. When the oceans suffer – from threats like climate change and overfishing – people suffer too.This new study shows that ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Impacts on Shellfish – Climate Change :: Washington State Dept. of Health
In 2011, illnesses caused by Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) were found in Washington, making our state the first in the U.S. where tests confirmed DSP illness from shellfish. The algae that produces the DSP toxin has been detected in Washington’s marine waters for some time, but it hadn’t produced the toxin. Now the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate influence on Vibrio and associated human diseases during the past half-century in the coastal North Atlantic
Long-term ecological and paleontological data analyses indicate climate change is having an impact on marine eukaryotic communities. However, little is known about effects of global warming on marine prokaryotes, which are, by far, the largest living biomass in world oceans. Here, we report, for the first time to our knowledge, that ...