je.st

Home › ocean

Tag: ocean

Death of coral reefs blamed on overfishing, pollution and warmer ocean

2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Houston Chronicle: An undated handout photo received on May 30, 2016, shows dying coral colonised by seaweed at Lizard Island during the current bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central regions of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying from a mass bleaching event, scientists said on May 30, 2016. The assessment was made after months of aerial and underwater surveys after the worst bleaching in recorded history first became evident in March as sea...

Tags: death ocean pollution coral

Madagascar's 'sea nomads' are the new ocean defenders

2016-06-08 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ecologist: Vezo fishers primarily use only traditional fishing methods - their boats have no motors and the dive without scuba gear. Thriving markets for shark fin and sea cucumbers, however, are changing many aspects of the way they live. Renewables versus climate change - the battle heats up! Good riddance to Thailand's infamous 'tiger temple' The 'slow genocide' of Brazil's Guarani people must stop Who gets to influence the climate negotiations? We must localise the EU and curb corporate power - but does...

Tags: sea ocean defenders nomads

Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming

2016-06-07 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are declining around the world because a combination of factors -- overfishing, nutrient pollution, and pathogenic disease -- ultimately become deadly in the face of higher ocean temperatures, researchers have concluded. A study published today in Nature Communications, based on one of the largest and longest field experiments done on this topic, suggests that the widespread coral deaths observed in recent decades are being caused by this combination of multiple local stressors and...

Tags: fall ocean warming pollution

Antarctic coastline images reveal four decades of ice loss to ocean

2016-06-05 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: A study of images along 2000km of West Antarctica's coastline has shown the loss of about 1000km2 of ice - an area equivalent to the city of Berlin - over the past 40 years. Researchers were surprised to find that the region has been losing ice for such a length of time. Their findings will help improve estimates of global sea level rise caused by ice melt. A research team from the University of Edinburgh analysed hundreds of satellite photographs of the ice margin captured by NASA, the United...

Tags: to images loss ice