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Dying coral reefs threaten the livelihood of millions

2014-04-23 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Declining coral reef health is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people living in the coastal tropics, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers. Lead author Dr Alice Rogers said coral reefs were dying due to pollution, climate change and overfishing and further decline would impact on reef fisheries. "We studied coral reefs in the Caribbean where many people rely on reef fisheries for food and income," said Dr Rogers from UQ's School of Biological...

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Coral reefs of the Mozambique Channel a leading candidate for saving marine diversity

2014-04-10 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Marine scientists keen on finding patterns of coral decline and persistence in gradually warming oceans have a complex challenge: how to save reefs containing the most diversity with limited resources. In the Western Indian Ocean, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Warwick, the ARC Centre for Excellence of Coral Reef Studies, Simon Fraser University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and other groups have found that the corals of the Mozambique Channel...

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Climate change, coral reefs, deforestation and dengue Climate Change

2014-04-07 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tico Times: The 21st century will present gloomy challenges for Costa Rica and the rest of Latin America, such as the collapse of wildlife habitats, animal extinction, water scarcity and the spread of disease in an already vulnerable population. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out this forecast on March 31, as one of its region-by-region follow-ups to the September global assessment on climate change. The reports collect over 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers...

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Australia: Great Barrier Reef's bleak future: UN

2014-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AAP: The climate change threat to the Great Barrier Reef and the Murray Darling Basin is a stark reminder that we're not immune to the risks detailed in a major UN global warming report, Australian scientists warn. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says the impacts of a changing climate are already being felt across the globe, but most nations are "ill-prepared" for the worst. Left unchecked, a warming climate would increase the likelihood of "severe and pervasive...

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Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Marine scientists in the Seychelles are propagating and replanting corals resistant to bleaching in the hope of replacing destroyed reefs in the western Indian Ocean with ones that are more resilient. Each workday, Claude Reveret and Sarah Frias-Torres of Nature Seychelles, a not-for-profit environmental organisation, lead a team of scuba divers down to the ocean floor around Praslin, the country's second-largest island, and the nearby Cousin Island Special Reserve. There they take part in...

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