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Scientists: Coral blight spreading worldwide
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The bleaching of colorful coral is spreading into a worldwide, devastating crisis, scientists say, and they predict it will likely get worse. Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say. The spread of sickly white started more than a year ago in Guam, then devastated Hawaii, infected the rest of the tropical Pacific and the Indian oceans and...
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Record warm oceans are causing third-ever global coral bleaching event
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The world's third-ever global coral bleaching event is now underway, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) along with a consortium of other researchers around the world. Mashable first reported the strong possibility that a global event would be declared in October, pending observations of coral bleaching in the Caribbean and Bahamas, which has now taken place. This bleaching event, which began in the north Pacific in the summer of 2014 and expanded to the south...
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It's not just divers and nature lovers that should be concerned by record coral bleaching
2015-10-08 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It may come as a surprise to learn that we are in the middle of the third great coral bleaching event in human history. And scientists are calling it the severest yet. The last great bleaching event was in 1998 when 11% of the worlds coral reef coverage was lost. Some areas like the Maldives lost as much as 90% of their reefs. This event is worse, possibly much worse. 38% of the planets reefs will be affected, with 12,000 sq km of reefs killed off entirely according to experts. If things go...
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'The Blob': As warm water terrorizes coral reefs, can we help?
2015-10-08 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Monitor: Coral reefs are suffering from a massive oceanic heat wave for the third time on record, and scientists fear it could be the biggest die-off yet. Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said they have only witnessed similar events twice before, first in 1998 and then in 2010. But since the early 1980s, scientists claim the world has lost half of its coral reefs. The record-high ocean temperatures are expected to kill about five percent, or 4,600 square miles,...
Coral Reefs Could Rebound If Put On A 'Balanced Diet'
2015-10-02 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: As global ocean temperatures rise, corals face degradation from acidification and coral bleaching. But it turns out that a nutrient-rich, balanced diet could help corals stay strong during stressful thermal conditions, according to a recent University of Miami (UM) study. This is a major step towards ensuring that corals continue to flourish during future climate change. Researchers from UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco fed corals two...
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