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This Is What Climate Change Has Done Great Barrier Reef
2016-03-29 05:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A new aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows the vast extent of a "severe" bleaching event that's caused widespread coral death over the past several weeks. The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce study found 95 percent of individual reefs in the most pristine section of the ecosystem showed severe bleaching. The research covered 520 reefs across more than 600 miles of coastline and found just four that didn't show signs of damage. Coral becomes "bleached" when the usually kaleidoscopic...
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Worst bleaching on record for Great Barrier Reef: Scientists say
2016-03-29 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: Doropoulos said by studying the reproductive frenzy closely, scientists will be able to determine the best conditions by which coral reefs reproduce, something the CSIRO hopes will allow researchers to assist coral reefs such as the Ningaloo Marine Park and the world-famous Great Barrier Reef to better recover from natural disasters and global warming. Professor Terry Hughes, the convenor of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, says the World Heritage site is in the grip of the worst coral bleaching...
Worst bleaching on record for Great Barrier Reef: scientists
2016-03-28 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Aerial surveys of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have revealed the worst bleaching on record in the icon's pristine north, scientists said Tuesday, with few corals escaping damage. Researchers said the view was devastating after surveying some 520 reefs via plane and helicopter between Cairns and the Torres Strait in the north of Queensland state. "This will change the Great Barrier Reef forever," Terry Hughes, an expert on coral reefs from James Cook University, told the Australian Broadcasting...
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Barrier Reef at greater risk than thought: study
2016-03-26 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia`s Great Barrier Reef, the world`s largest coral bank, is at greater risk than previously thought of dissolving as climate change renders the oceans more acidic, researchers warned recently. A decline in aragonite - the mineral that corals use to build their skeletons - is likely to accelerate, they found, as oceans absorb carbon dioxide spewed by mankind`s burning of fossil fuels. This disturbs ocean chemistry, leading to a drop in the pH level and less aragonite, a crystal form of...
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Australia: Calls climate action over Great Barrier Reef bleaching
2016-03-21 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Environmental groups Monday urged greater action on climate change after the government sounded the alarm over severe coral bleaching in the pristine northern reaches of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The government said Sunday that corals had turned white and grey in parts of the World Heritage-listed marine park, with the bleaching "severe" in northern areas. Environmental group WWF said large sections of coral near Lizard Island were drained of all colour and fighting for survival. "The...
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