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Nov 12, 2024 | 
eleconomista.com.mx | Karen Sack
WASHINGTON, DC. Alrededor del 40% de la población mundial habita en áreas costeras; además de albergar 12 de las 15 ciudades más grandes del mundo, estas regiones son esenciales para la supervivencia de incontables pueblos y aldeas. Y puesto que cerca del 80% del comercio internacional pasa por puertos de mar, las áreas costeras también tienen un importante papel económico, con un valor que oscila entre el 60 y el 70% del PIB mundial.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andrew Nikiforuk |Robert Hunziker |Olivia Rosane |Karen Sack
The messages of Hurricane Helene lie inscribed in the muddy debris of Asheville, North Carolina, and other wrecked towns of Appalachia. Helene, powered by warming waters in the Gulf of Mexico, dumped 700 millimetres of rain in several states over three days. The surreal deluge drenched the ground and then it swelled creeks. The creeks supercharged rivers, and these muddy waters tore like a torrent through the hills, breaking all previous records of mayhem.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
taipeitimes.com | Karen Sack
By Karen Sack Roughly 40 percent of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline for countless small villages and towns. With around 80 percent of international trade passing through seaports, coastal regions also play an outsize economic role, accounting for 60 percent to 70 percent of global GDP.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Olivia Rosane |Karen Sack |Bharat Dogra
A recent Arctic News headline d/d October 4, 2024 refers to one of the most significant climate-related studies this year. It describes in detail the worldwide all-encompassing danger of loss of sea ice:Double Blue Ocean Event, 2025? It demands attention. A casual reading of climate change literature reveals several mentions of ecosystem impairment or collapse of one sort or another occurring in various timeframes this century. In that context, nothing quite compares to a Double Blue Ocean Event.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
theasset.com | Karen Sack
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
omanobserver.om | Karen Sack
Roughly 40 per cent of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline for countless small villages and towns. With around 80 per cent of international trade passing through seaports, coastal regions also play an outsize economic role, accounting for 60-70 per cent of global GDP.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Karen Sack
Alrededor del 40% de la población mundial habita en áreas costeras; además de albergar doce de las quince ciudades más grandes del mundo, estas regiones son esenciales para la supervivencia de incontables pueblos y aldeas. Y puesto que cerca del 80% del comercio internacional pasa por puertos de mar, las áreas costeras también tienen un importante papel económico, con un valor que oscila entre el 60 y el 70% del PIB mundial.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Olivia Rosane |Karen Sack |Bharat Dogra |Andrea Mazzarino
Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved. That’s just one of the alarming findings from the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, released Monday, which found that all three main greenhouse gases reached record atmospheric levels in 2023. “Words fail,” the group Climate Defiance wrote on social media in response to the news.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Karen Sack |Bharat Dogra |Andrea Mazzarino |Lucine Kasbarian
WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly 40% of the world’s population inhabit coastal areas. In addition to being home to 12 of the world’s 15 largest cities, these regions serve as an essential lifeline for countless small villages and towns. With around 80% of international trade passing through seaports, coastal regions also play an outsize economic role, accounting for 60-70% of global GDP.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Karen Sack
Given their outsize economic role, strengthening the resilience of coastal communities is not just a regional or national priority but a global imperative. To unlock large-scale financing for ocean conservation and climate mitigation, investors, governments, and local communities must align their efforts.
