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10 Popular Dive Sites Closed in Thailand Due to Coral Bleaching Crisis
2016-05-27 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Some of Thailand`s most prized dive sites have been closed indefinitely after the Department of National Parks` survey found coral bleaching on 80 percent of some of the reefs. This is a bold move for a country where tourism accounts for 10 percent of its economy--and where officials were hoping to attract 32 million tourists this year, The Guardian reported. But then again, it sends the message Thailand officials want: Ignorant tourism is killing the reefs. The coral reefs are affected by...
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Coral vs. coal
2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Tim Flannery, a scientist and environmentalist who was named Australian of the Year in 2007, lost his job in 2013. The right-wing government of then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott shut down the Climate Commission that Flannery headed in a peremptory move designed to demonstrate its contempt for climate change. The commission had been established two years earlier to provide authoritative information to the Australian public. Abbott, of the conservative Liberal Party, had no time for such information....
Thailand closes dive sites over coral bleaching crisis
2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Thailand has shut down 10 popular diving sites in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis, an official said Thursday, in a rare move to shun tourism profits to protect the environment. The tropical countrys southern coastline and string of islands are home to some of the worlds most prized white sand beaches and scuba sites, and the booming tourism industry props up Thailands lagging economy. But warming waters and ever-growing swarms of visitors have damaged coral reefs and local ecosystems....
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Amid 'bad year' for coral, UN launches tool and report outlining ways to protect threatened reefs
2016-05-25 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Malaysian Sun: At the second United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) taking place in Nairobi this week, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was among a group of agencies launching a new tool and report that recommends ways to protect threatened coral reefs. "Humans have left an indelible mark on the marine environment that has led to almost 20 per cent of coral reefs disappearing. But coral reefs are an invaluable natural asset we can"t afford to lose," said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner in a press...
Completely unsurprisingly, coal dust kills coral, too
2016-05-18 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: To the shock of no one, it turns out that coal dust is pretty bad for just about everything. People? Turns their lungs the wrong color. Rats? Plaque in the arteries. Corals? Turns out when you spill a lot of coal dust into the water, they don`t do so well either. In a Nature Scientific Reports article titled "Simulated coal spill causes mortality and growth inhibition in tropical marine organisms," scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Australian Institute...
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