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Reefs may help in fight against ocean acidity
2013-11-29 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Royal Gazette: While many scientists have been warning about potentially dire consequences of the oceans increasing acidity, a recent scientific paper suggested that coral reefs such as those around Bermuda might actually help offset ocean acidification. They point out the ocean is the largest natural sink for carbon dioxide (CO2), absorbing one quarter to one third of the CO2 produced by humans. However, as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, fundamental properties of seawater chemistry are also...
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Coral reefs may be more adaptive to climate change than once thought
2013-10-29 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Scientists studying the catastrophic phenomena of coral bleaching have concluded that reef systems may be more adaptable to increasingly warmer oceans than previously believed. The study -- published online in the journal Global Change Biology -- is heartening news, coming in the face of dire predictions that had the world's coral reefs disappearing by the middle of the century. The work was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and conducted by researchers at Cal State...
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Coral Reefs Give the Ocean it's Smell, Fight Global Warming; Study
2013-10-24 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Coral reefs aren't just spectacular, but they are also the 'smell of the ocean'. A new study has found that coral animals produce a sulfur compound that gives the water body its typical smell and protects them from global warming. This sulfur also influences local cloud formation. The study, conducted by researchers at Australian Institute of Marine Science and colleagues, found that the coral animals produces dimethylsulphoniopropionate, which gives the characteristic oceanic smell. DMSP even...
Scientists, diving industry to recover Indonesias coral reefs
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Marine scientists from several NGOs are conducting joint efforts with dive operators to recover coral reefs in some areas in Indonesia affected by mass bleaching due to global warming. At a workshop on coral bleaching held in Denpasar on Friday, they discussed the impact of coral bleaching, which occurred at an alarming rate in 2009 and 2010, and attempted to learn from the episode to anticipate more bleaching in the future. It was predicted that future coral bleaching could be more severe and...
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How to Save Coral Reefs from Climate Change: Genetic Manipulation
2013-10-16 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Whats the best idea for reducing the impacts of ocean acidification on the environment and society? After all, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to go up and up and up, which suggests that the pH of seawater will continue to fall and fall and fall. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has weighed in with its opinion: genetics for coral. Heres how the winning scientists Ruth Gates of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Madeleine von Oppen from the Australian Institute of Marine...
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