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Unwanted Fish

As warming waters threaten fish populations and disrupt fisheries around the world, it is critical to find ways to sustain fisheries while at the same time allowing those fisheries to remain economically viable to those who depend on them for their livelihoods. In the United States, commercial fishing employs 1.2 million Americans and generates more than $165 billion annually. 

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Satellite Images Show Spread of Wildfire Smoke Across Eastern U.S.

Satellite imagery shows the vast extent of wildfires in Canada and the lingering veil of smoke over the Eastern U.S.

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Q&A: Are Far-Reaching Fires the New Normal?

Where there’s smoke, there is fire. But with climate change, larger and longer-burning wildfires are sending smoke farther from their source, often to places that are unaccustomed to the exposure. That’s been the case this week, as smoke continues to drift south from massive wildfires in Canada, prompting warnings of hazardous air quality, and poor visibility in states across New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest.

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Eddies: Circular Currents and Their Influence on the World's Hottest Ocean

Water from the Pacific Ocean flows into the Indian Ocean via the Indonesia Archipelago Seas thanks to a vast network of currents dubbed the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF). 

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Officially Reported Temperatures Underestimate Miami’s Heat Burden, New Study Finds

Miami summers are hot and humid, but is climate change making them dangerous?

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Seaweed Farming May Help Tackle Global Food Insecurity

To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could shift from land to sea, suggests a recent study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

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US-German Satellites Show California Water Gains After Record Winter

Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the state’s groundwater levels still suffer from the effects of years of drought.

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May Continued the Nation’s Warm Start to 2023

May 2023 was quite warm across the contiguous U.S., ranking as the 11th-warmest May in the climate record.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions at ‘an All-Time High’, Warn Scientists

Human-caused global warming has continued to increase at an “unprecedented rate” since the last major assessment of the climate system published two years ago, say 50 leading scientists.

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Aviation Turbulence Strengthened as the World Warmed — Study

The skies aircraft fly through are bumpier today than four decades ago, scientists have found, after producing a new analysis showing that turbulence has increased as the climate changed. 

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