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Mass coral bleaching now affecting half Australia Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-11 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The mass coral bleaching event smashing the Great Barrier Reef has severely affected more than half its length and caused patches of bleaching in most areas, according to scientists conducting an extensive aerial survey of the damage. The good news with my last flight is that I found 50 reefs that werent bleached, so that may be the southern boundary, said Terry Hughes from James Cook University. Hughes is the head of the national coral bleaching task force, which has been conducting flights...
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Great Barrier Reef: new chapter opens in the fight to save natural wonder from mining
2016-04-10 04:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Here on Heron Island, you could be forgiven for thinking everything is calm on the Great Barrier Reef. There are kilometres of gorgeous coral and a bustling ecosystem around it huge schools of colourful fish, turtles, rays and sharks. It is the reef you grew up seeing on documentaries. And, above the water, the reef is supporting an astounding colony of birds everything from clumsy mutton birds that fall into trees and haunt the island at night, to cheeky white-capped noddies that appear...
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Heat Stress Killing Corals on Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The most pristine section of the world largest coral reef is experiencing the worst mass bleaching event in history, scientists have determined during aerial and in-water surveys of the Great Barrier Reef. After surveying more than 500 coral reefs from Cairns, Australia to Papua New Guinea, scientists rank the overwhelming majority of reefs in the most severe bleaching category. Research divers survey coral bleaching on a reef off of Port Douglas, March 2016 (Photo by Cassandra Thompson / ARC...
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Fishing Bans Can Protect Great Barrier Reef Corals
2016-04-07 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the famed corals of Australia's northeastern shoreline turn white at a rate never before seen, scientists there have made a striking discovery -- one that offers new hope for reefs as greenhouse gas pollution warms the waters around them. Corals growing in areas of the Great Barrier Reef where fishing is banned were found to be more likely to survive bleachings, cyclones, coral diseases and the voracious effects of invasive starfish. Rules that protect fish can also protect coral reefs....
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Hamburger Helper drops album by Minnesota pranksters and it's great
2016-04-06 15:32:16| Food - Topix.net
In an epic April Fools' prank, Hamburger Helper, America's favorite glove, dropped a fake album and it's actually pretty good. The Minneapolis-based General Mills line of boxed starches released "Watch The Stove," a nod to Kanye West and Jay Z's "Watch the Throne."
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