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Great Barrier Reef not in danger but more protection needed, says UNESCO
2015-05-30 10:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UNs World Heritage Committee has said the Australian reef should not be listed as in danger, but added that the country must submit a report with a long-term conservation plan by December next year to address environmental threats. UNESCO issued a draft report saying that coastal development, pollution and climate change represent major threats to the Great Barrier Reef, whose status has worsened since 2009 and is expected to further deteriorate in the future. For this reason, it said...
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Great Barrier Reef evades danger list
2015-05-29 12:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Great Barrier Reef should not go on a World Heritage danger list, according to a United Nations draft report. However, it says Australia must carry out commitments to protect the reef, including restoring water quality and restricting new port developments. The final decision on its status will be made at the World Heritage Committee meeting in Germany next month. Conservationists have warned that the outlook for the reef is "poor". A report published in 2014 concluded that the condition...
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Global Warming Biggest Risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2015-05-25 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sputnik: Global warming poses the greatest risk to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt, said Monday. "Climate change is the single biggest long-term risk to the reef," Reichelt told a parliamentary inquiry hearing, days before United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization makes a decision on whether the reef will be placed on the "endangered list," as quoted by Financial Review....
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Coal & climate change: a death sentence for the Great Barrier Reef
2015-05-19 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conservation: Back in 1999, I made an upsetting discovery. By comparing the temperature tolerance of reef-building corals with the projected effects of rising carbon dioxide levels, I found that the oceans would soon grow too warm for corals to bear, meaning that coral-dominated systems like the Great Barrier Reef would disappear within 30-40 years. Much as I tried to find a mistake in my reasoning and calculations, the numbers kept telling me that one of the worlds most diverse ecosystems would disappear...
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Australia: Government bans dumping from new dredging projects into Great Barrier Reef
2015-05-17 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The federal government has finalised a ban on the dumping of sediment from new dredging projects into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, as a decision looms on whether the ecosystem will be listed as in danger by the UN. Greg Hunt, the federal environment minister, said he has approved an amendment to the Great Barrier Reef marine park regulations to ban capital dredge spoil being dumped there. The ban will apply to all past, present and future applications for dumping of new seabed excavations...
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