Previous Oceans Climate and Energy News

What Over a Century of Ice Data Can Tell Us About the Great Lakes’ Future 02-09-26

Bucking Trump Admin, Judge Greenlights East Coast Offshore Wind Project 01-16-26

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the ‘true cost’ of Carbon, Study Finds 01-15-26

The Ocean Has Finally Entered the Global Climate Debate 01-06-26

2025

Town Reaches New Agreement With Vineyard Wind, But Few Demands Were Met 12-11-25

California Beach Widths Show Resilience 11-17-25

Will Blue Wave Buoy Massive Virginia Offshore Wind Project? 11-14-25

Marine Energy Potential: More Than a Drop in the Ocean 10-22-25

Global Rules to Decarbonize Ships Delayed Amid Trump’s Pushback 10-17-25

Hurricanes Are Getting Increasingly Worse: Climatologist 10-13-25

How Ancient Plankton Point to the Resilience of Ocean Ecosystems 10-02-25

The World’s Oceans Face Triple Planetary Crisis: Report 09-30-25

‘Bizarre’ and ‘unlawful:’ States, Ørsted Rhallenge Revolution Wind Freeze 09-04-25

‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting Fishermen Oppose Revolution Wind Halt 08-29-25

Increasingly Acidic Seas Threaten Oyster Farming 07-07-25

Mangrove Forests Demonstrate Surprising Storm Resilience in Changing Climate: Study 06-03-25

Federal Government Considering South Carolina Coast For Offshore Drilling 06-02-25

‘Super cool’ Project Turns Lake Bonnet’s Algae Into Jet Fuel 06-01-25

Mangroves Show Surprising Resilience to Storms in a Changing Climate 05-27-25

Trump Officials Allow Massive New York Offshore Wind Project to Restart 05-19-25

US Senator Warns of Warming, Plastic Threats to World’s Oceans and Fisheries 05-09-25

An Overlooked Climate Ally is in Deep Trouble 05-06-25

Seeking Climate Connections Among the Oceans’ Smallest Organisms 02-06-25

Trump’s Pause On Offshore Wind Leasing May Have Limited Impact in New England 01-23-25

2024

Researchers Aim to Offer Nags Head Wave Energy Options 12-13-24

Human-caused Ocean Warming Intensified Recent Hurricanes, Including All 11 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2024 11-20-24

Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban Pledge Faces Legal Obstacles 11-13-24

DOE Office Announces $1.7 Million For Hydropower and Marine Energy Projects at National Labs 11-06-24

Louisiana voters agree to put offshore wind Energy Revenue Into Coastal Projects 11-05-24

Rowan-involved Deep Sea Research Probes Climate Change in North Atlantic 10-28-24

New Study Looks to How Wind Projects Will Change Ocean 08-29-24

Project 2025’s Plan To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Threatens Ocean Health and Economic Stability 08-20-24

Hurricane Beryl Supercharged By ‘crazy’ Ocean Temperatures, Experts Say 07-09-24

Supreme Court Ruling Delays Climate Litigation Big Oil Has Sought to Thwart 06-10-24

Humpback Shale Population Data Offers Grim Prognosis For Ocean Health 05-31-24

The Hidden Language of Ocean Coral 05-30-24

Judge to Decide Whether to Delay Construction of Dominion’s Offshore Wind Project 05-09-24

‘Frisky little songbird’ Needs Protection From Sea Level Rise, Environmental Group Tells Feds 04-30-24

Change is Rewiring Fish Brains — and Probably Ours, Too 04-08-24

‘Alarming’ Ocean Temperatures Suggest This Hurricane Season Will Be a Daunting One 04-04-24

Climate Change and Boat Strikes Are Killing Right Whales. Stronger Speed Limits Could Save Them. 03-14-24

Inconvenient Truths About an Inconvenient Whale (Opinion) 03-04-24

Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes 02-20-24

‘Green colonialism’: Tribes Disappointed With Offshore Oregon Energy Plans 02-12-24

Category 6-level Hurricanes Are Already Here, A New Study Says 02-06-24

Ocean Trawling May Release Locked-Away Carbon 01-18-24

Iconic Maine Fish Shacks Completely Destroyed During Storm 01-13-24

Massachusetts Switches On Its First Large Offshore Wind Farm 01-04-24

2023

Blue Power: Will Ocean Waves Be California’s New Source of Clean Energy? 12-02-23

Three-hundred-year-old Beaufort Faces Existential Threat 12-01-23

The Ocean Is Our Best Chance to Survive Climate Change 11-30-23

New Study Finds That Ocean Waves Are Gaining Strength Because of Climate Change 11-10-23

Ocean Energy Could Be a Golden Thread for Coastal Communities 11-08-23

Massive Windfarm Project to Be Built Off Virginia Coast Gains Key Federal Approval 10-31-23

Atlantic Hurricanes Intensifying Faster, More Frequently, Research Finds 10-19-23

Judge Blocks Government Plan to Scale Back Gulf Oil Lease Sale to Protect Whale Species 09-22-23

Keeping Track: $220M for Ocean Observatories Initiative 09-21-23

It’s Not Just Coral. Extreme Heat is Weakening Entire Marine Ecosystems in Florida. 09-18-23

The ocean is shattering heat records. Here’s what that means for fisheries. 08-11-23

How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit. 07-13-23

Officials, advocates answer Questions on Solar, Wind Power 05-10-23

The GOP Donors Behind a Growing Misinformation Campaign to Stop Offshore Wind 04-20-23

Scientists Scramble to Help Bay Scallops Survive Climate Change 03-27-23

Climate Crisis Increases Human-Wildlife Conflict 03-08-23

Where New York’s Sick Sea Turtles Go for Rehab and Squid Snacks 02-24-23

Scientists Dispute Claims Behind Call For Wind Moratorium 02-15-23

Hurricane Harvey More Than Doubled the Acidity of Texas’ Galveston Bay, Threatening Oyster Reefs 02-07-23

Dead Whales and Tough Economics Bedevil Biden’s Massive Wind Energy Push 01-25-23

2022

Climate Change: Whales Could Be an Important Carbon Sink, Say Scientists 12-15-22

To Keep Florida Economically Viable, the State’s Leaders Should Establish an Upper Limit to Sea-level Rise 12-08-22

Coastal Researchers See Potential in Capturing Ocean Energy 12-01-22

How Centuries-old Whaling Logs Are Filling Gaps in Our Climate Knowledge 11-02-22

A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean 11-02-22

The Marine Lab in the Path of Fury 11-01-22

Billions of Snow Crabs Have Disappeared From the Waters Around Alaska. Scientists Say Overfishing is Not the Cause 10-16-22

Warming Waters Challenge Atlantic Salmon, Both Wild and Farmed 09-15-22

How Is Climate Change Affecting Ocean Waters and Ecosystems? 08-29-22

The Ocean Is Climate Change’s First Victim and Last Resort 06-23-22

Ice World: Antarctica’s Riskiest Glacier is Under Assault From Below and Losing Its Grip 06-07-22

Rhode Island leaders want ‘bold’ commitment to offshore wind 03-23-22

New technique using coral helps reconstruct past climates 03-22-22

Sea ice over Antarctica just shrank to its smallest on record 03-18-22

Officials Tout Economic Boom From Offshore Wind Industry 02-08-22

How 11 states are building the US offshore wind industry from scratch 02-04-22

Climate Change Will Deplete Ocean Oxygen, Kill Fish, Studies Show 02-04-22

Tampa Bay has huge flood risk. What should we do about it? 02-03-22

Opinion | How Biden Can Use the Ocean to Fight Climate Change 01-28-22

Ocean Temperatures: Climate Warning for New England 01-26-22

Study Confirms Southern Ocean’s Status as One of Earth’s Most Important Carbon Sinks 01-08-22

2021

Arctic Report Card: Climate Change Transforming Arctic Into ‘dramatically different state’ 12-14-21

Scientists examine energetic oceans, eddies, and kinetic energy 11-23-21

Marine Oxygen Levels are the Next Great Casualty of Climate Change 11-18-21

Climate groups slam Biden administration oil auction as ‘hypocritical’ 11-14-21

Duke to study offshore wind energy’s effects on marine life 11-12-21

Floating Wind Farms are About to Transform the Oceans 11-04-21

Biden wants more wind energy. Those projects should help local politicians, our research finds. 10-20-21

Virginia’s first offshore wind turbines have become a haven for marine life 10-14-21

Hurricanes and coastal energy development are a dangerous combination 10-06-21

‘Major’ Oil Spill Off California Coast Threatens Wetlands and Wildlife 10-03-21

Updated plan details human, climate damage to wetlands 09-30-21

NASA Finds Arctic Ice Melt Forms Clouds that Fuel Warming 09-27-21

As California confronts climate crisis, offshore wind energy must be part of the solution 09-25-21

Climate conversations neglect an essential component of a healthy planet: the ocean 09-15-21

How sea-level rise is making hurricanes like Ida more destructive 09-01-21

This Yellow Floatie Can Churn the Power of the Sea Into Electricity 09-01-21

A California fisherman sails the choppy waters of climate change and drought 09-01-21

Saving Florida’s Corals 08-30-21

Climate Change Will Force Tuna Migration, Cripple Small Island Nations, Study Finds 08-30-21

Offshore Wind in New Hampshire Is On Track 08-30-21

Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power 08-29-21

Climate Change Could Shut Down A Vital Ocean Current, Study Finds 08-05-21

The ‘world’s most powerful tidal turbine’ starts to export power to the grid 07-28-21

California weighs first step in ‘managed retreat’ from rising Pacific 07-20-21

Climate crisis threatens access to nutrients in fish, study finds 07-20-21

High-tide flood risk is accelerating, putting coastal economies at risk 07-14-21

New Jersey has the wind in its sails 07-13-21

Offshore Wind Push Gains Momentum in California 07-13-21

Ocean warming could have negative effects on marine life and coastal communities 07-11-21

For Florida’s corals, no escape from climate change 06-28-21

Analysis: Biden may hinder oil and gas drilling even after court loss  06-17-21

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has issued an executive order calling for the development of 2.8 GW of offshore wind power by 2030, and 8 GW by 2040 06-15-21

How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas 06-15-21

A $26-Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas 06-14-21

For Lease: Windmill Space in the Atlantic Between Long Island and New Jersey 06-11-21

Shipping is tough on the climate and hard to clean up – these innovations can help cut emissions 06-11-21

Whale poop and phytoplankton, the dynamic duo fighting climate change 06-02-21

Subtropical Storm Ana forms, first named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season 05-22-21

Scientists Predict an ‘Above Normal’ Atlantic Hurricane Season 05-20-21

Scientists Find Underwater Plants Can Combat Ocean Acidification 04-15-21

Climate Migration is Happening Underwater, Too 04-09-21

Marine species increasingly can’t live at equator due to global heating 04-07-21

Florida officials scramble to prevent ‘catastrophic flood’ of contaminated water from leaking reservoir 04-04-21

The U.S. is finally looking to unlock the potential of wave energy 03-29-21

The Biden administration makes a swath of ocean between New York and New Jersey an offshore wind zone 03-29-21

California’s Kelp Forests in Climate Peril 03-16-21

Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium 02-25-21

Climate change, rising sea levels to increase cost of flood damage by $34 billion in coming decades: Report 02-22-21

Climate crisis pushing great white sharks into new waters 02-09-21

Ocean energy about to ride a wave 02-09-21

Southern Ocean waters are warming faster than thought, threatening Antarctic ice 01-21-21

How climate change is reducing numbers of humpback whale calves in the north-west Atlantic 01-21-21

Climate change pushed ocean temperatures to record high in 2020, study finds 01-17-21

Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather 01-13-21

As the Arctic melts, a regime shift is taking place 01-12-21

Now’s the Time for NOAA 01-09-21

2020

NOAA Releases Annual Arctic Report Card, Reports Unprecedented Warming 12-10-20

Are Tides and Waves the Missing Piece of the Green Energy Puzzle? 12-06-20

Canada Gives BP Okay to Explore in Marine Conservation Area 11-27-20

The Ocean Carbon Sink Has Set the Next Political Hurdle 11-09-20

Alaska’s permafrost, which stores greenhouse gases, is less plentiful and more fragile than believed, study says 11-07-20

‘Ghost forests’ are an eerie sign of sea-level rise 10-20

Siberia’s Arctic Sea Ice Hasn’t Formed Yet This Year 10-26-20

House Democrats Introduce Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act 10-21-20

Sea-Level Rise Takes Business Toll in North Carolina’s Outer Banks 10-18-20

Atlantic Ocean is at its hottest in 2,900 years 10-13-20

Human Activity is Increasing Severity and Frequency of Major Marine Heatwaves 09-28-20

Questions Linger on Offshore Drilling, Seismic 09-25-20

The Arctic Is Shifting to a New Climate Because of Global Warming 09-14-20

Rise in sea level from ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica match worst-case scenario: study 09-09-20

Love of Coast Set Professor’s Career Path 08-31-20

Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Challenged By Lawsuits and Bankruptcies 08-30-20

Marine Heat Waves Are Becoming More Common and Intense. What Can We Do to Minimize Harm? 08-11-20

The disappearance of Arctic sea ice due to climate change could lead to increased ocean noise 07-30-20

How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change 07-20-20

Hearing the under-sea whispers of a warming climate 07-13-20

The House Select Committee’s “Blueprint” for Solving the Climate Crisis 07-10-20

Climate Change Will Make World Too Hot For 60 per cent of Fish Species 07-02-20

First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm In Federal Waters Completed, Ready to Spin 06-30-20

The Deep Sea Could Hold the Key to a Renewable Future. Is it Worth the Costs? 06-17-20

2018

The Living Breathing Ocean 10-31-2018