je.st
news
Tag: coral
Devastating global coral bleaching event could hit Great Barrier Reef next
2016-02-23 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The third global coral bleaching event to be recorded is snaking its way around a warming globe, devastating reefs and now threatening the world-heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. This week it was announced the bleaching event, which began in 2014, is already the longest in history and could extend well into 2017. We may be looking at a two- to two-and-a-half-year-long event. Some areas have already seen bleaching two years in a row, says Mark Eakin, coordinator of the Coral Reef Watch program...
Climate change will lead to deformed and virus-hit coral reefs
2016-02-19 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Coral will become deformed and increasingly fall victim to outbreaks of herpes-like viruses as humans continue to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to two new studies. Combined, the two effects suggest coral reefs will have trouble recovering from bleaching events, like the the world is currently experiencing. When carbon dioxide is emitted from factories, cars and power plants, about 30% of it is absorbed by the ocean. As that happens, the acidity of the oceans increases,...
Tags: change
lead
climate
climate change
Billionaire Conservationist's Yacht Damages Coral Reef
2016-01-29 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Billionaire Paul Allen has given millions of dollars to conservation causes over the years, including ones that support ocean exploration and preservation. But earlier this month, his 300-foot yacht Tatoosh allegedly caused significant damage to a protected coral reef in the Cayman Islands. The anchor and chain of the vessel allegedly damaged 14,000 square feet of reef on January 14, according to Cayman Islands' Department of Environment. The incident occurred in a protected area of Grand Cayman...
Tags: damages
coral
reef
yacht
NASA's CORAL Mission Takes Reef Studies To New Level
2016-01-12 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: NASA plans to take a new and improved approach to studying coral reefs this year, with the launch of a three-year field expedition conducted with advanced instruments to survey the world's reefs in far greater detail than ever before. Researchers from the COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) will take aerial and up-close, underwater measurements to better assess the condition of these threatened ecosystems. Their findings will be used to create a unique database of uniform scale and quality,...
Tags: level
takes
studies
mission
Tough times for the tree of life on coral reefs
2016-01-12 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Marine scientists are calling for a re-think of how marine protected areas (MPAs) are planned and coordinated, following a global assessment of the conservation of tropical corals and fishes. Researchers from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), at James Cook University in Townsville, analysed the extent to which the evolutionary histories of corals and fishes are protected, rather than looking at individual species. "Our interest was in evolutionary...
Sites : [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] next »