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Caribbean coral reefs in alarming decline, but problem can be reversed
2014-07-03 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Caribbean coral reefs are at risk of disappearing within the next 20 years because of pollution, overfishing and the loss of grazers, unless action is taken to restore them to full health. A new comprehensive study by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment Programme (Unep) analysed more than 100 locations in the Caribbean generating tourism revenue of around $3 billion and found that coral reef in the region...
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Caribbean Reefs Declining at an Alarming Rate: Report
2014-07-02 12:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Most Caribbean reefs will disappear in the next two decades, a new report states. Researchers said that around 50 percent of the Caribbean coral reef has declined in the past fifty years. Around 90 experts, over the course of three years, have worked on the report, Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012. Around nine percent of the world's corals live in the Caribbean. These ecologically diverse reefs are a crucial part of the Caribbean economy. Tourism and fisheries in the Caribbean...
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Soft Corals Could Help Protect Reefs
2014-06-25 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Soft corals are more resilient to changes in oceanic acidity than previously believed, a new study has found. Coral reefs provide shelter to thousands of marine organisms. Rising levels of carbon dioxide and ocean temperature are threatening the existence of these beautiful "forests of oceans." A new study from Tel Aviv University researchers and colleagues has shown that soft corals can resist the harmful effects of decreasing pH in the ocean. The research is published in the journal PLOS One....
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El Nio Could Spell Disaster for Coral Reefs
2014-06-08 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A growing number of scientists are predicting a major El Nio weather event this year, which could wreak havoc across South America and Asia as droughts, floods and other extreme weather events hit industry and farming. But the impacts on the world's coral reefs could be even more disastrous. The last big El Nio in 1997/98 caused the worst coral bleaching in recorded history. In total, 16 percent of the world's coral was lost and some countries like the Maldives lost up to 90 percent of their...
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Global Warming Alert: Soaring Temperatures Threatens Coral Reefs - UN
2014-06-07 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: A U.N. report released on Thursday said the continuing rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system is posing irreversible damages to the coral reefs in the world's smaller islands. The study by the United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP) said coral reefs found along the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean are at risk of the warming waters which kill the tiny animals that form corals with their stony skeletons. Of all the ecosystems on Earth, the "corals .. are probably the...
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