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“Given this climate change or global warming, as we have seen over the last hundred years, the atmospheric water vapor pressure is increasing,” said Chu. “We have some evidence showing that we already have some increasing, very intense rain.” Coral reefs make up much of Hawaii's nearshore ocean ecosystem and are critical to the state's economy. Hawaii's reefs protect populated shorelines from massive ocean swells and storm surges from tropical storms — a benefit the U.S. Geological Survey valued at more than $860 million a year. Credit: AP In this Nov. 23, 2003, photo provided by Ku...

‘We’re at a tipping point with coal’: Q&A with Bloomberg’s Antha Williams Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was key in marshaling city and state governments across the U.S. to ramp up their climate action after the Trump administration pulled the country out of the Paris Agreement. With the climate-focused Biden administration now in office, Bloomberg Philanthropies is going “all-in toward climate solutions,” says Antha N. Williams, head of the foundation’s environment program. Among its main initiatives is the Beyond Coal campaign, which seeks to get OECD countries to tra...

Hawaii Jockeys For Advantage In Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan - Honolulu Civil Beat Hawaii Jockeys For Advantage In Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Local politicians, business leaders and labor organizers say Hawaii needs funds to reduce its dependence on petroleum, boost rail and improve wastewater systems. Reading time: 5 minutes. WASHINGTON — While it’s too early to know how much money might be headed Hawaii’s way should President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan become law, business leaders are already lining up for those federal dollars. On Wednesda...

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary) by Jonah Wittkamper on 1 March 2021 In 2019, XPRIZE Rainforest opened its doors and challenged the world to develop new biodiversity assessment technologies by offering a $10 million prize for the best one. In this commentary, Jonah Wittkamper, President of the Global Governance Philanthropy Network and co-founder of NEXUS, makes an economic argument for participating in the contest. Wittkamper says a great deal of value could be unlocked with the ability to rapidly assess rainforest biodiversity. This post is a com...

 E-Mail IMAGE: 3D seamless land-sea terrain showing lidar-derived ocean floor color (with water removed via models). view more  Credit: Greg Asner, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University A new study, published in Bioscience, considers the future of ecology, where technological advancement towards a multidimensional science will continue to fundamentally shift the way we view, explore, and conceptualize the natural world. The study, co-led by Greg Asner, Director of the Arizona State University Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Sci...