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Massive New Reef System Found at Amazon River Mouth
2016-04-25 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacred Heart Spectrum: Bleached coral in the Great Barrier Reef So the discovery came as a total surprise to study coauthor Patricia Yager, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia, who in 2012 set out with Brazilian scientists aboard the research vessel Atlantis to study the plume coming out from the river mouth and flowing into the ocean. However, Yager also wanted to explore the premise of a scientific article from the 1970s that mentioned a scientist capturing reef fish along the continental shelf, which...
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Massive Coral Reef Discovered at Mouth of Amazon River, But Its Already Threatened by Oil Drilling
2016-04-25 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Scientists recently made a surprising discovery of a 600-mile long deepwater reef system below the Amazons muddy waters. More than 60 species of sponges, 73 species of fish, spiny lobsters, stars and other reef life have been found there. This is good news for marine life, especially in the wake of massive coral bleaching around the world. However, the newly discovered reef is already in grave danger from oil exploration and drilling at the mouth of Amazon--some of it possibly right on top of...
Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: An Australian MP is blaming seeping methane from a nearby fracking site for making it possible for him to set Queensland's Condamine River on fire. Jeremy Buckingham a Greens party MP for New South Wales posted a video of the incident to his Facebook page on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, it had been shared more than 50,000 times. "Unbelievable! A river on fire. Don't let it burn the boat," he says in the video. "The most incredible thing I've seen. A tragedy in the Murray-Darling Basin."...
Newly Discovered Coral Reef System Found At the Amazon River Already in Grave Danger
2016-04-24 09:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers are flabbergasted over the discovery of a coral reef system located at the muddy waters off the mouth of the Amazon River. Corals are known to thrive in clear, sunlit saltwater. The Amazon plume, the area where fresh water from the river mixes with the salty Atlantic Ocean, creates gaps in the reef distribution along the tropical shelves, making it difficult for the corals to grow. Thus, the discovery of a coral reef system at the mouth of the Amazon River is significantly surprising,...
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Coral Reef Stretching 600 Miles Discovered at Mouth of Amazon River
2016-04-23 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
cdanews: A coral reef stretching some 600 miles was discovered at the mouth of the Amazon River underneath its muddy waters. This was something new to add to its reputation of being one of the most biodiverse river systems in the world. The newly discovered coral reef is already being threatened by oil companies who have set up 20 drilling operations in the region. The discovery of the reef, in a place where gunk in the Amazonian plume often shelters it from the sun, was written about in a study published...
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