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Bleaching 'devastates' UK tropical reef
2016-06-07 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK's largest tropical reef has been devastated in the global bleaching event now under way. Up to 85% of the corals in the Chagos Marine Reserve of the British Indian Ocean Territory are estimated to have been damaged or killed in the event. Scientists say the conditions there are worse than in 1998 - the last major bleaching occurrence. The problem is caused by anomalously warm water, which prompts the coral polyps to eject their symbiotic algae. This drains them of their colour...
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Lizard Island corals 'slimy' after bleaching
2016-06-07 14:12:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Once colourful corals surrounding a Great Barrier Reef island have turned a ghastly shade of brown, with new images showing how algae has impacted the natural wonder. WWF Australia says the photos were taken last month at Lizard Island, the "ground zero" of a mass bleaching event that's killed an estimated 22 per cent of the reef's corals. "Some people see coral bleached white and think it looks pretty. But this is what follows - it's literally an attack of the slime," WWF Australia spokesman...
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Australia: Coral bleaching 'has changed the Great Barrier Reef forever'
2016-06-07 01:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Terry Hughes from James Cook University in Queensland leads a taskforce measuring the condition of the Great Barrier Reef amid a global coral bleaching event that is off the scale. The kind of bleaching were seeing now is an entirely modern phenomenon, he says. Were now in a very precarious position, where every El Nio that comes along, every five or six years, can potentially bleach the entire Great Barrier Reef
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Australia: Coral bleaching: 'We need to tell the truth without scaring reef tourists away'
2016-06-07 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Paul Crocombe from Adrenalin Dive in Townsville has been taking tourists to the Great Barrier Reef for more than 20 years. We were really fortuntate this time with the coral bleaching that the majority of the mortality is a long way north of here, he says. With the reef in danger, he adds, accurate information is needed
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Coral graveyard: the aftermath of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in pictures
2016-06-07 01:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coral graveyard: the aftermath of bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in pictures Dead and dying coral at Lizard Island on Australias Great Barrier Reef. The once brilliant coral is blanketed by seaweed a sign of extreme ecosystem meltdown. These exclusive photographs are from a series taken by not-for-profit the Ocean Agency as part of its work around the world documenting the longest coral bleaching event in history * Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare.
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