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Brightening the clouds touted as a way to save corals

2013-07-09 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: The world's corals are in dire straits, so it will take an ambitious plan to save them. But will cooling the climate locally by making clouds brighter, the latest proposal on the table, help? Corals face a perfect storm of threats including acidifying oceans, invasive predators and tropical storms. Warming waters also puts them under stress, making them expel photosynthetic microbes that provide most of their energy as well as their vibrant colours, leaving them a bleached white. Without symbiotic...

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Storm clouds ahead for businesses that ignore climate risks

2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

South China Morning Post: The World Bank's latest "Turn Down the Heat" report unfolds like a summer horror film. Bangkok is 40 per cent submerged. Philippine fishermen struggle to achieve half their normal catch, while Vietnamese rice farms are flooded with salt water. Coastal Asia's favourite tourist spots are ravaged by storms, its cities are seared by heat and its citizens compete for a shrinking food supply. The main culprit? Climate change. In response, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim vowed to conduct his core business...

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