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Australian mangrove die-off blamed on climate change
2016-07-11 08:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres), or nine percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia's James Cook University, the first time such an event has been recorded. The so-called dieback -- where mangroves are either dead or defoliated -- was confirmed by aerial and satellite surveys and...
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