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Barrier Reef coral bleaching labelled 'major and significant' as Attenborough warns of 'grave danger'
2016-04-07 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is "major and significant", federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says. Mr Hunt was commenting after he received his latest briefing from the Reef 2050 Independent Expert Panel about the current bleaching. The Minister's latest remarks come as prominent naturalist Sir David Attenborough declared the reef to be in "grave danger". "The event is still unfolding and the full extent and severity of bleaching may take several weeks to manifest," Mr Hunt...
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Heat Stress Killing Corals on Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-07 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The most pristine section of the world largest coral reef is experiencing the worst mass bleaching event in history, scientists have determined during aerial and in-water surveys of the Great Barrier Reef. After surveying more than 500 coral reefs from Cairns, Australia to Papua New Guinea, scientists rank the overwhelming majority of reefs in the most severe bleaching category. Research divers survey coral bleaching on a reef off of Port Douglas, March 2016 (Photo by Cassandra Thompson / ARC...
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Fishing Bans Can Protect Great Barrier Reef Corals
2016-04-07 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As the famed corals of Australia's northeastern shoreline turn white at a rate never before seen, scientists there have made a striking discovery -- one that offers new hope for reefs as greenhouse gas pollution warms the waters around them. Corals growing in areas of the Great Barrier Reef where fishing is banned were found to be more likely to survive bleachings, cyclones, coral diseases and the voracious effects of invasive starfish. Rules that protect fish can also protect coral reefs....
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Great Barrier Reef pollution control efforts 'not enough to meet targets'
2016-04-03 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Australia is unlikely to meet water quality targets designed to protect the Great Barrier Reef, researchers from the federal governments marine science agency have warned. Scientists, including two from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), have published a study that says current efforts to reduce pollution run-off into the reefs waters are not enough to meet set targets. Their findings, published in the Global Change Biology journal on Sunday, came as the Queensland government...
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Severe coral bleaching is damaging huge swaths of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists say
2016-03-30 15:08:08| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Scientists have declared that key portions of the Great Barrier Reef -- over a thousand miles long and the largest living structure on the planet, according to Australias Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority -- are now seeing the worst coral bleaching in recorded history. Were seeing very severe bleaching in the northern part of the reef, said professor Terry Hughes of James Cook University, where he heads the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies....
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