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Dying coral reefs threaten the livelihood of millions

2014-04-23 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Declining coral reef health is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people living in the coastal tropics, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers. Lead author Dr Alice Rogers said coral reefs were dying due to pollution, climate change and overfishing and further decline would impact on reef fisheries. "We studied coral reefs in the Caribbean where many people rely on reef fisheries for food and income," said Dr Rogers from UQ's School of Biological...

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Coral reefs of the Mozambique Channel a leading candidate for saving marine diversity

2014-04-10 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: Marine scientists keen on finding patterns of coral decline and persistence in gradually warming oceans have a complex challenge: how to save reefs containing the most diversity with limited resources. In the Western Indian Ocean, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Warwick, the ARC Centre for Excellence of Coral Reef Studies, Simon Fraser University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and other groups have found that the corals of the Mozambique Channel...

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Climate change, coral reefs, deforestation and dengue Climate Change

2014-04-07 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Tico Times: The 21st century will present gloomy challenges for Costa Rica and the rest of Latin America, such as the collapse of wildlife habitats, animal extinction, water scarcity and the spread of disease in an already vulnerable population. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out this forecast on March 31, as one of its region-by-region follow-ups to the September global assessment on climate change. The reports collect over 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers...

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Global warming has irreversibly damaged coral reefs, Arctic ice: Report

2014-03-29 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yomiuri Shimbun: The international climate change panel currently meeting in Yokohama, Japan, has agreed to state in its upcoming report that global warming has inflicted irreversible damage coral reefs and Arctic sea ice. The agreement came at a plenary session of Working Group II of the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is meeting in Yokohama to assess the impact of ongoing warming of the planet. According to the IPCC, there will be serious effects on the natural environment when global...

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Coral reefs: life in the balance

2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A coral reef is a busy neighbourhood. In warm, shallow, tropical waters, clownfish mill among sea anemones; sponges and seaweeds jostle against each other; crabs and snapping shrimps lurk defensively amid the knobbly branches.It's a cornucopia of life. "About a third of all marine diversity sits in coral reefs," says Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, head of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton. At the heart of the reef's ecosystem are coral polyps soft-bodied animals related...

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