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Climate change news: Arctic sea ice growth stunted again

3/29/2016

CNN-

Earth's Arctic ocean freezer is making fewer ice cubes, and that could be a problem throughout the Northern Hemisphere, researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center are warning.

The center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder, reported Monday that the spread of Arctic sea ice set a new record low for the second straight year, stopping last week at 5.607 million square miles.

Record Renewable Energy Investment in 2015

3/29/2016

Maritime Executive-

Developing world investments in renewables topped those of developed nations for the first time in 2015, according to the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016 report.
Additionally, coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other renewables

DNR study sees seagrass recovering in Puget Sound

3/22/2016

Bellingham Herald -

Critical eelgrass beds are showing signs of recovering in parts of Puget Sound, including Hood Canal, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

A new DNR report found sites with increased eelgrass outnumbered sites with declining eelgrass between 2010 and 2014. The rebound was most pronounced in lower Hood Canal.

Arctic fishing ban could help warm relations with Russia, says expert

3/21/2016

iPolitics-

A proposed international agreement to ban fishing around the North Pole could be just the thing to warm Canadian-Russian relations, a top arctic and international law expert said this weekend.

Polar Bears, Robot Subs And Melting Ice: Navy’s ICEX 2016

3/7/2016

Breaking Defense-

PENTAGON: Polar bears. Wind chill of 20 below. Ice floes drifting faster than ever thanks to global warming. Cutting holes in the ice big enough to drop unmanned mini-substhrough. Keeping mini-drones aloft in the frigid winds to watch out for the aforementioned bears. Those are just some of the issues — many of them new — that Navy sailors face as they set up camp for Ice Exercise 2016.

Floodplain experiment points to water policy solutions to support both salmon recovery and agriculture

3/3/2016

West Sacramento News-Ledger -

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, the California Department of Water Resources and non-profit organization California Trout have launched an expanded experiment to better understand how the Sacramento River system can support healthy salmon populations.

Energy Department Announces Finalists Vying for $2.25 Million Wave Energy Prize

3/2/2016

U.S. Department of Energy -

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the nine teams chosen as finalists in the Wave Energy Prize, which hail from California, Maine, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. The Prize is a 20-month design-build-test competition that aims to double the energy captured from ocean waves. Increasing the energy harnessed by wave energy converter devices will reduce costs and make this renewable energy source more competitive with traditional energy solutions.

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Climate change news: Arctic sea ice growth stunted again

Record Renewable Energy Investment in 2015

DNR study sees seagrass recovering in Puget Sound

Arctic fishing ban could help warm relations with Russia, says expert

Polar Bears, Robot Subs And Melting Ice: Navy’s ICEX 2016

Floodplain experiment points to water policy solutions to support both salmon recovery and agriculture

Energy Department Announces Finalists Vying for $2.25 Million Wave Energy Prize

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