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Corals most important for building reefs now in sharp decline
2016-04-23 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study has found that the very corals responsible for establishing today's reefs are now some of the most threatened coral species due to climate change and other human-made stressors. Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at the University of Queensland (UQ) says the fast-growing, reef-building, branching Acropora, or 'staghorn', corals are responsible for the vast amount of modern reef growth. Although they have been around for at least...
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Can corals keep up with ocean acidification?
2016-04-07 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â New sensor by a team led by University of Delaware researchers Wei-Jun Cai and Mark Warner (above) enables first carbonate ion concentration measurements inside coral. …
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Heat Stress Killing Corals on Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The most pristine section of the world largest coral reef is experiencing the worst mass bleaching event in history, scientists have determined during aerial and in-water surveys of the Great Barrier Reef. After surveying more than 500 coral reefs from Cairns, Australia to Papua New Guinea, scientists rank the overwhelming majority of reefs in the most severe bleaching category. Research divers survey coral bleaching on a reef off of Port Douglas, March 2016 (Photo by Cassandra Thompson / ARC...
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Fishing Bans Can Protect Great Barrier Reef Corals
2016-04-07 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the famed corals of Australia's northeastern shoreline turn white at a rate never before seen, scientists there have made a striking discovery -- one that offers new hope for reefs as greenhouse gas pollution warms the waters around them. Corals growing in areas of the Great Barrier Reef where fishing is banned were found to be more likely to survive bleachings, cyclones, coral diseases and the voracious effects of invasive starfish. Rules that protect fish can also protect coral reefs....
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Good news: scientists have found corals that might actually survive climate change
2016-03-24 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceAlert: There's not been much good news for the world's coral reefs lately, with images released this week of the most dramatic bleaching event to date on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and experts predicting that climate change will eventually destroy the famous reef entirely. But researchers have now identified corals hiding in plain sight that are not only surviving increased acidification and warming temperatures, but appear to be thriving in them. A team of Australian researchers from the University...
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