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Caribbean coral reefs in alarming decline, but problem can be reversed
2014-07-03 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Caribbean coral reefs are at risk of disappearing within the next 20 years because of pollution, overfishing and the loss of grazers, unless action is taken to restore them to full health. A new comprehensive study by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment Programme (Unep) analysed more than 100 locations in the Caribbean generating tourism revenue of around $3 billion and found that coral reef in the region...
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Global Warming Alert: Soaring Temperatures Threatens Coral Reefs - UN
2014-06-07 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: A U.N. report released on Thursday said the continuing rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system is posing irreversible damages to the coral reefs in the world's smaller islands. The study by the United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP) said coral reefs found along the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean are at risk of the warming waters which kill the tiny animals that form corals with their stony skeletons. Of all the ecosystems on Earth, the "corals .. are probably the...
Coral reefs better coping rising sea temperatures than thought
2014-05-30 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Coral reefs are under threat from rising sea temperatures caused by global warming. But in a recent paper, published in Science, it was found that certain types of coral are able to adapt to tolerate higher sea temperatures by changing the genes they express. Scientists think this new discovery could be used to devise new ways of protecting coral reefs, as well as improving our predictions of how they will cope with climate change in the future. Marine rainforests Known as the "rainforests...
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How coral reefs can help us endure climate change
2014-05-20 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Sea levels are rising and tropical cyclones are intensifying, which is bad news for about 200 million people who live along Earth's coasts. If only evolution had spent millions of years fine-tuning some kind of sea creature to build and maintain giant barriers that can soften the ocean's fury for us. It did: corals. The reefs these animals build are well-known to scientists and surfers for absorbing the blow of incoming waves and creating big, dramatic breaks. But now, thanks to a new study, we...
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Coral Reefs Down for Count
2014-05-01 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: My visit to Heron Island revealed that evolution does not always generate elegant or even obviously efficient solutions. Instead, the island ecosystem, with its bird-killing trees and turtle-gobbling sharks, is built on what appear to be profligately inefficient exploitation of the rich resources generated by the reef. To me, the coral reef, with its myriad species and complex food webs, seems fully-realized and enduring, while the relatively few island species form an ecosystem that seems more tenuous...
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