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Nasa takes 23,000-foot view of the worlds coral reefs

2016-06-10 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Live Mint: Nasa takes 23,000-foot view of the worlds coral reefs Nasa and top scientists from around the world are launching a three-year campaign on Thursday to gather new data on coral reefs like never before Subscribe to our newsletter.Caleb JonesReefs are among the first ecosystems to be dramatically and directly impacted by global warming. Photo: Reuters Coconut Island, Hawaii: Coral reefs have almost always been studied up close, by scientists in the water looking at...

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Coral reef tourism in danger as reefs struggle to adapt to warming

2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

IPS: A recent UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on world heritage sites in danger from climate change received widespread media attention after the Australian government requested the removal of a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef. However the Great Barrier Reef is not the only coral reef at risk from climate change. The report described how coral reefs all around the world are being directly effected by warming waters and acidification associated with changes in...

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Death of coral reefs blamed on overfishing, pollution and warmer ocean

2016-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Houston Chronicle: An undated handout photo received on May 30, 2016, shows dying coral colonised by seaweed at Lizard Island during the current bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central regions of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are dead or dying from a mass bleaching event, scientists said on May 30, 2016. The assessment was made after months of aerial and underwater surveys after the worst bleaching in recorded history first became evident in March as sea...

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Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming

2016-06-07 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are declining around the world because a combination of factors -- overfishing, nutrient pollution, and pathogenic disease -- ultimately become deadly in the face of higher ocean temperatures, researchers have concluded. A study published today in Nature Communications, based on one of the largest and longest field experiments done on this topic, suggests that the widespread coral deaths observed in recent decades are being caused by this combination of multiple local stressors and...

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Rigs to reefs: the thriving marine life on decommissioned oil platforms

2016-06-01 12:40:00| Offshore Technology

A few miles off the coast of California, the Eureka oil rig is thriving with marine life, and its not the only one. Keeping decommissioned oil rigs in the water is a growing trend, giving rise to some of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet.

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