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Report: BP Spill Led to Greater Damage Coral Reefs Than Previously Thought
2015-10-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gulf coral damage from the massive BP oil spill is more extensive than previously thought, according to a new study that revealed sick and dying corals in the rich, deep-water environment off the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi known as the Pinnacles. Using remotely operated submarines, researchers explored the Pinnacle Reef in September 2011 and found more than 400 coral colonies were injured. Corals -- such as sea whips, sea fans and black corals -- were covered in a scum of dead tissues and...
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Hot Oceans Are Killing Coral Reefs Around the World
2015-10-08 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: For the past year, the world's corals have been getting increasingly pummeled by climate change. Now with El Nio kicking ocean heat into overdrive, much of the world's oceans have turned deadly for the world's corals. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced a global coral bleaching event. This year joins the ranks of 1997 and 2010 as the only times on record that bleaching has occurred in all three of the world's oceans that support coral at the same...
'The Blob': As warm water terrorizes coral reefs, can we help?
2015-10-08 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Monitor: Coral reefs are suffering from a massive oceanic heat wave for the third time on record, and scientists fear it could be the biggest die-off yet. Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said they have only witnessed similar events twice before, first in 1998 and then in 2010. But since the early 1980s, scientists claim the world has lost half of its coral reefs. The record-high ocean temperatures are expected to kill about five percent, or 4,600 square miles,...
Coral Reefs Could Rebound If Put On A 'Balanced Diet'
2015-10-02 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: As global ocean temperatures rise, corals face degradation from acidification and coral bleaching. But it turns out that a nutrient-rich, balanced diet could help corals stay strong during stressful thermal conditions, according to a recent University of Miami (UM) study. This is a major step towards ensuring that corals continue to flourish during future climate change. Researchers from UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco fed corals two...
Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Maybe Reefs Could Keep Pace with Sea Rise?
2015-08-04 05:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: If carbon levels are limited and we manage coral reefs well, they could grow vertically and maintain pace with rising sea levels. At least, researchers from Florida Institute of Technology say that could very likely happen, and they recently reported their findings in the journal Royal Society Open Science. The scientists say that if we keep carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere at below 670 parts per million (ppm), ocean temperatures could continue to support those growing coral reefs, as a...
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