Societal Impacts Archives - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /category/societal-impacts/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:12:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png Societal Impacts Archives - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /category/societal-impacts/ 32 32 Ocean Month: How and Why We Investigate Ocean Acidification /101112-2/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:13:43 +0000 /?p=101112 The ocean and the atmosphere are constantly seeking balance.  Gases like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon move between the ocean’s surface and the atmosphere by billions of metric tons every year.  A higher concentration of one gas in the atmosphere leads to more of that gas being taken up by the ocean as the two try […]

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]]> Scientists at AOML measure ocean’s crucial buffering against rising global carbon emissions  /scientists-at-aoml-measure-oceans-crucial-buffering-against-rising-global-carbon-emissions/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:03:07 +0000 /?p=95769 Every year, scientists at AOML participate in the international effort led by the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute in developing the annual Global Carbon Budget Report, an assessment of global carbon emissions and the progress towards achieving the climate goals set by the 2016 Paris Agreement. The 2024 Global Carbon Budget Report now indicates […]

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