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Ocean warming and acidification deliver double blow to coral reefs
2013-09-30 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arstechnica: The dual threats of ocean acidification and anthropogenic warming have the potential to wreak havoc on marine life over the coming decades. Corals require acid-sensitive calcium carbonate for structure and heat-sensitive symbionts for sustenance, so they seem to have the most to lose from a warmer, more acidic ocean. Indeed, numerous studies have already indicated that calcifying organisms, including corals, would be among the worst to suffer. Although many studies have looked at heat and acidification,...
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Coral Reef Decline Could Threaten Survival of Crabs, Lobsters
2013-09-24 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Crabs and lobsters might go extinct due to the declining abundance of coral reefs. A new study has found that prehistoric crustaceans were wiped out after reefs began collapsing. Researchers say that a similar fate awaits modern crustaceans that now depend of coral reefs for survival. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and showed a direct co-relation between prehistoric reefs and decapod crustaceans, a group that includes shrimps, crabs and lobsters. "We estimate...
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Are coral beds protected from oil drilling?
2013-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: Corals are a relatively new concern on the marine environmental radar and there's apparently still quite a lot left to be learned about them but that doesn't mean they're not important. In fact, there are many areas inside Canadian/Newfoundland and Labrador waters as well as others areas that either straddle or lie outside the 200 mile limit that are considered to be sensitive coral zones. Those zones have been closed to any fishing activity that involves gear coming into contact with the...
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PRESS RELEASE: Local Developer Buys Four Buildings on 2.4 acres in Cape Coral, Fla., for $1.35 million
2013-09-17 23:07:00| National Real Estate Investor
Julia Pappacoda Signaling the continued improvement of the Southwest Florida commercial real estate market, a local developer has purchased four buildings on 2.4 acres of land in downtown Cape Coral, Fla., for $1.35 million. read more
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New insights into how coral becomes bleached
2013-09-05 21:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across the globe, reef-building corals live in symbiosis with algae, which provide the animals with food and their iconic brilliant color. But environmental stress high temperatures, in particular can kill corals by causing them to "bleach," a process in which they lose their vital algal friends and turn ghostly white. Scientists have long thought that faulty algal photosynthesis (the process that uses light to make food) ultimately triggers coral bleaching, but new research now shows that...
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