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XPRIZE dives into Earth's final frontier our oceans and their future health
2013-10-22 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The XPRIZE Foundation, once known for competitions for spaceflight innovation, has turned its focus to the seas, launching a series of new prizes for ocean health over the next seven years. The Ocean Initiative represents the biggest XPRIZE commitment to date, reinforcing earlier competitions for devices to monitor ocean acidification and clean up oil spills. "The oceans are in trouble. They have been under attack for the last half century, and we do feel we are at a tipping point right now,"...
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Business urged to do more to save oceans
2013-10-16 06:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Businesses should play a bigger role in helping to save depleted fish stocks as part of efforts to prevent irreversible damage to the oceans, a World-Bank backed report said on Wednesday. The study, by 21 experts including government ministers, academics, conservationists and company leaders, said policies for protecting the oceans from over-fishing, pollution and climate change were often ineffective and fragmented. It recommended more public-private partnerships involving companies, governments,...
No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
2013-10-16 00:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the worlds oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday. It took a year to analyse and synthesise all of the studies on the impacts of climate change on ocean species, Camilo Mora, an ecologist at University of Hawaii in Honolulu and lead author, told IPS. Mora is also lead author of ground-breaking climate study published in Nature last week. It was very sad to see all the responses were negative....
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The oceans are heating, acidifying and choking
2013-10-04 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: We know the oceans are warming. We know they are acidifying. And now, to cap it all, it turns out they are suffocating, too. A new health check on the state of the oceans warns that they will have lost as much as 7 per cent of their oxygen by the end of the century. The cascade of chemical and biological changes now under way could see coral reefs irreversibly destroyed in 50 to 100 years, with marine ecosystems increasingly taken over by jellyfish and toxic algal blooms. The review is a repeat...
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Oceans Under Greater Threat From Climate Change than Previously Believed
2013-10-03 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed, according to the latest report issued by the International Program on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The findings, published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, pointed to acidification, warming and declining oxygen levels as the "deadly trio" that together are affecting the ocean's productivity and efficiency. Should they continue unchecked, the researchers...
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