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Australia risks losing one million tourists to Great Barrier Reef bleaching
2016-06-21 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: "The 2,300-kilometre long reef - the world's biggest coral ecosystem - is suffering from its worst bleaching in recorded history due to warming sea temperatures.">The 2,300-kilometre long reef - the world's biggest coral ecosystem - is suffering from its worst bleaching in recorded history due to warming sea temperatures. Severe coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could cost it more than a million visitors a year and huge sums in lost tourism revenue, a survey...
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Coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef to derail tourism, finds survey
2016-06-21 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef could result in one million fewer visitors and hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tourism revenue each year, according to a report by a Canberra-based think tank. "The massive drop in visitors would result in the loss of one billion Australian dollars (759 million US dollars) in income, and 10,000 tourism jobs," the Australia Institute said in a report Monday. While many potential visitors may seek other Australian attractions, some "175,000 potential...
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Australia: The Barrier Reef is in danger but its still one of the worlds great sights
2016-06-19 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Anyone in the Cairns tourism industry who might be feeling a sense of panic about the largest destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef since divers first strapped on snorkels is not letting it show. The north-eastern Australian city a global holiday destination where the natural wonders name festoons everything from the signs greeting airport arrivals to the local casino is celebrating a storming tourist trade over the last 12 months. Nearly three million people visited in the year...
Great Barrier Reef should be prioritised over coal mining, survey shows
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The effects of coral bleaching include the formation of an insidious layer of slime, now coating a vast area of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists say. A thumping majority of Australians want the health of the Great Barrier Reef prioritised over coal mining, according to a survey of more than 63,000 Fairfax Media readers. People living in mining states, the lower-educated, older people and men were less likely to agree to such a trade-off. Queensland's Abbot Point, surrounded by wetlands...
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Can 'super coral' save the Great Barrier Reef?
2016-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: As fears mount over the Great Barrier Reef's worst coral bleaching event in recorded history, biotechnologists in Australia are looking at ways to grow "super coral" that is more tolerant of global warming, writes Ian Lloyd Neubauer. Heat-resistant coral is not an artificial construct. The mutation occurs naturally in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia, where the world's longest tropical tides create super-heated tide pools where corals have found ways to adapt and survive. "The...
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