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Oceans warming too fast for Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-14 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate change risks disabling the protective mechanism of the world`s largest coral reef against spurts in sea temperature, according to a study. Bouts of gradual warming have spurred parts of the Great Barrier Reef to build heat tolerance, limiting the severity of bleaching and preventing die-offs. But more sudden increases in temperature seen by future scenarios were likely to skip this practice run, the study published in journal Science on Thursday said. Heat-stress causes coral to...
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More Than 50 Percent of Great Barrier Reef Affected By Bleaching
2016-04-11 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Great Barrier Reef Affected By Bleaching ARC Coral Reef Studies An aerial shot of the Great Barrier Reef in early April. Record high ocean temperatures in the western Pacific have caused more than half of the Great Barrier Reef to undergo a mass coral bleaching event this year, according to a team of Australian scientists conducting aerial surveys. Corals thrive in a narrow temperature range, and when waters warm above normal--as they have this year from climate change and a strong El Nino--the...
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Great Barrier Reef: David Attenborough ignores politics and appeals to the heart
2016-04-11 04:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Do we really care so little about the Earth on which we live that we dont wish to protect one of its greatest wonders from the consequences of our behaviour? At the very end of Sir David Attenboroughs three-part documentary on Australias Great Barrier Reef, the 89-year-old asks this simple question, in his polite way, not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, just wondering. It is all that has gone before that gives his question such force. We have seen the remarkable, beautiful and...
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Mass coral bleaching now affecting half Australia Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-11 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The mass coral bleaching event smashing the Great Barrier Reef has severely affected more than half its length and caused patches of bleaching in most areas, according to scientists conducting an extensive aerial survey of the damage. The good news with my last flight is that I found 50 reefs that werent bleached, so that may be the southern boundary, said Terry Hughes from James Cook University. Hughes is the head of the national coral bleaching task force, which has been conducting flights...
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Great Barrier Reef: new chapter opens in the fight to save natural wonder from mining
2016-04-10 04:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Here on Heron Island, you could be forgiven for thinking everything is calm on the Great Barrier Reef. There are kilometres of gorgeous coral and a bustling ecosystem around it huge schools of colourful fish, turtles, rays and sharks. It is the reef you grew up seeing on documentaries. And, above the water, the reef is supporting an astounding colony of birds everything from clumsy mutton birds that fall into trees and haunt the island at night, to cheeky white-capped noddies that appear...
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