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President Obama Makes History By Establishing Worlds Largest Ocean Reserve
2014-09-25 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Justice: The White House announced today that President Barack Obama has decided to create the largest marine sanctuary on the planet through the use of executive action. The move will expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to 490,000 square miles, six times larger than it currently is, and seal it off from commercial fishing and resource extraction activities. The presidents decision is a bold move that will significantly strengthen protections for deep-sea coral reefs and marine...
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Ocean Acidification Diminishing Great Barrier Reef Corals
2014-09-18 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Corals in the Great Barrier Reef are diminishing, and scientists are blaming ocean acidification for their dangerously low growth rates, a new study describes. Coral growth rates have plummeted 40 percent since the mid-1970s, and given that the Australian reef is the site of the largest collection of corals - over 400 types - scientists are getting worried. "Coral reefs are getting hammered," study leader Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said in a press release. Not only from ocean acidification,...
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Effect ocean acidification: Coral growth rate Great Barrier Reef plummets 30-year comparison
2014-09-18 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A team of researchers working on a Carnegie expedition in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has documented that coral growth rates have plummeted 40% since the mid-1970s. The scientists suggest that ocean acidification may be playing an important role in this perilous slowdown. In a quest for historical context on the peril facing coral reefs, the team compared current measurements of the growth rate of a section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef with similar measurements taken more than 30 years...
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Two US Navy jets crash in Pacific Ocean
2014-09-15 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Two fighter jets embarked on the US Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) have crashed in the far western Pacific Ocean following a mid-air collision, with one of the two pilots safely ejected and rescued. The other is still m
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Ocean algae can evolve fast tackle climate change: study
2014-09-14 19:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tiny marine algae can evolve fast enough to cope with climate change in a sign that some ocean life may be more resilient than thought to rising temperatures and acidification, a study showed. Evolution is usually omitted in scientific projections of how global warming will affect the planet in coming decades because genetic changes happen too slowly to help larger creatures such as cod, tuna or whales. Sunday's study found that a type of microscopic algae that can produce 500 generations a...
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