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Australia: Bleaching kills off 'third of Great Barrier Reef coral'
2016-05-30 08:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Mass bleaching has destroyed as much as one third of the coral on the northern and central Great Barrier Reef in Australia, according to a research. Australian researchers found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef is dead or dying, Terry Hughes, a professor with James Cook University, in Queensland, said on Monday. The findings, based on months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300km reef off the country's east coast, are a major blow...
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Australia: Climate change action vital to reef
2016-05-30 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Both the Coalition and Labor admit saving the Great Barrier Reef from devastating bleaching will require action on climate change. Their leaders turned their campaign focus to protecting the environmental icon on Monday, with Labor pledging $377 million in new funding for research and management. The coalition promised $6 million for another boat to cull crown of thorns starfish. Labor's cash injection will go to improving water quality, streamlining management and science, including a $50 million...
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Great Barrier Reef: Bleaching 'kills 35% of area's coral'
2016-05-30 04:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: At least 35% of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been destroyed by bleaching, Australian scientists say. The experts from James Cook University (JCU) say it is the most extreme case of mass bleaching they have ever measured at the World Heritage Site. Bleaching occurs when warmer water causes coral to weaken and lose the colourful algae that provide oxygen and nutrients. It has been linked to climate change. "We found on average, that 35%...
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Australia: Bleaching May Have Killed Half the Coral on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Say
2016-05-29 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in the past three months has killed as much as half of the coral in the north but left large parts of the southern reaches with only minor damage, scientists in Australia said on Sunday. The current bleaching is the third to strike the roughly 1,400-mile-long reef in 18 years and the most extreme scientists have recorded. In the north, the mortality rates are off the scale, said Prof. Terry Hughes, the director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral...
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Most coral dead in central section of Great Barrier Reef, surveys reveal
2016-05-29 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The majority of coral is now dead on many reefs in the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, according to an underwater survey of 84 reefs, in the worst mass bleaching event to hit the world heritage site. An average of 35% of coral was now dead or dying in the northern and central sections, according to the surveys led by the Australian Research Councils Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. But in good news for tourists and the tourism industry, only 5% of coral has died on reefs...
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