New U.S. Navy Climate Strategy Sets High-Level Goals

By Erin Sikorsky  On May 24, the U.S. Navy released Climate Action 2030, its response to the Presidential directive to integrate climate considerations into all aspects of the Department of Defense. The Navy is the second of the armed services…

Highlights from the U.S. Navy War College Conference on Climate Change and National Security

Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua A. Moore By Elsa Barron On January 9th, climate and security experts, many…

EVENT: US Navy War College: The National Security Significance of a Changing Climate, January 8

Rough seas pound the hull of Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic as she sails alongside Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua A. Moore On January 8,…

Snapping Shrimp Can Disrupt the U.S. Navy’s Search for Mines as the Oceans Warm

By Dr. Marc Kodack And now for something completely different. Marine biologists presented an interesting paper at the Ocean Science Meeting 2020 on research they conducted on "snapping shrimp." As ocean temperatures warm because of climate change, the cracking noise that snapping shrimp…