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Coral Reefs Doing Better Than Expected in Many Areas
2016-06-15 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A new study found "bright spots" where corals are thriving, despite global bleaching events. Local fishermen are often good stewards of the ocean, a new study finds. Here, villagers from New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, work their waters. Despite the unprecedented extent of coral bleaching around the world, a major new study has also found "bright spots" where corals are doing significantly better than anyone expected. And the reason for the improvement is simple: it comes down to how...
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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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To rebuild coral reefs quickly, just add electricity
2016-05-27 21:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: To rebuild coral reefs quickly, just add electricity Biorock reefs -- sunken steel frames connected to a low-voltage current -- are giving coral a second chance at surviving humanity You may have heard that coral reefs are in trouble. Serious trouble. A recent survey of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest living structure on the planet, found 93 percent of the coral has been impacted by bleaching; a stark warning sign that the ecosystem is under tremendous environmental stresses. The...
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