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Great Barrier Reef: Australia Pledges $740M To Protect Climate Change-Ravaged Structure
2016-06-13 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The past few months have brought in a raft of news about the health of the iconic Great Barrier Reef -- each one worse than the last. According to recent surveys, over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure has been affected by some level of coral bleaching -- an event that occurs when corals, stressed by rising water temperature and acidity, expel the symbiotic algae living within their tissues. This bleaching event, which is the worst in the reefs history, has killed 35 percent of its corals in...
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Australian PM pledges A$1 bln to help ailing Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 06:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, facing a tight re-election battle, pledged on Monday a A$1 billion ($738 million) fund for the Great Barrier Reef, where scientists say mass coral bleaching has destroyed vast tracts of the World Heritage site. A report late last month said mass coral bleaching, caused by climate change, had destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef and that the coral mortality rate would likely rise. The report cast a shadow over...
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Abbot Point Port: the divisive coal project on the Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Australias ambition to build one of the worlds largest coal ports at Abbot Point has caused international uproar over the projects perceived environmental threat. The expansion site is located in close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO
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Election 2016: Coalition's $1 billion funding promise for Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-12 12:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Turnbull government will establish a special $1 billion fund to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the ravages of climate change and declining water quality. The Reef Fund to be announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Queensland on Monday will invest in clean energy projects across the reef's catchment area in a bid to keep the World Heritage-listed icon healthy. Under the first major environmental policy announced by Mr Turnbull during the campaign, the money will be come...
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Ellen DeGeneres pleads Australians to help save the Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-08 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo!: The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's treasures, but is at risk due to coral bleaching as a result of climate change, and government inaction. It's led Ellen DeGeneres to urge the country to save the Great Barrier Reef, as part of a heavily Disney branded campaign called "Remember The Reef". It coincides with the release of the film Finding Dory, the sequel to Finding Nemo, which DeGeneres is a voice actor in. "I'm a big fan of your beautiful, great, wonderful Great Barrier Reef, which is...
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