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Rising carbon dioxide affecting health fish living on Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Queensland researchers say rising carbon dioxide levels are causing worsening health effects for fish living on the Great Barrier Reef. A James Cook University study has found the changed water quality is affecting the eyesight of some reef fish. A conservation group says the findings are a further reminder of the extraordinary pressure being placed on the reef. Caitlyn Gribbin has more. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: The Great Barrier Reef is a case study for climate change and its impact....
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Australia: Death by sludge, coal and climate change for Great Barrier Reef?
2014-01-31 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There's a phrase environmental scientists and campaigners like to use to talk about the slow and relentless degradation and destruction of habitats and natural wonders. "Death by a thousand cuts", they call it, as small chunks of habitat are lost and environmental laws are eased or repealed. A bit of bush here for a tourism development, a stand of mangroves there for a beachside resort. An entire nature reserve for a coal mine. Sometimes, the threats come like pincer movements with all angles covered....
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Iraq: Its Great Lake Shriveled, Iran Confronts Crisis of Water Supply
2014-01-31 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After driving for 15 minutes over the bottom of what was once Irans largest lake, a local environmental official stepped out of his truck, pushed his hands deep into his pockets and silently wandered into the great dry plain, as if searching for water he knew he would never find. Just an hour earlier, on a cold winter day here in western Iran, the official, Hamid Ranaghadr, had recalled how as recently as a decade ago, cruise ships filled with tourists plied the lakes waters in search of flocks...
Coral or coal decision looms for Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-30 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's Great Barrier Reef watchdog is to decide by Friday whether to allow millions of cubic meters of dredged mud to be dumped near the fragile reef to create the world's biggest coal port and possibly unlock $28 billion in coal projects. A dumping permit would allow a major expansion of the port of Abbot Point for two Indian firms and Australian billionaire miner Gina Rinehart, who together have $16 billion worth of coal projects in the untapped, inland Galilee Basin. The Galilee Basin...
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A great brownfield story
2014-01-30 00:18:43| PortlandOnline
Next week, City Council will vote to turn one of Portlands long-time brownfields into a vibrant new multi-use development in the heart of St. Johns.
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