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US pays Philippines compensation for damage to Tubbataha Reef
2015-02-18 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The Philippine Government has received $1.97m compensation from the US for damage caused by a US Navy Avenger-class mine counter-measures ship to a protected reef.
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New study says Great Barrier Reef could be dead by end of century
2015-02-01 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian Correspondent: The Great Barrier Reef is facing serious threats from climate change, and ongoing coal projects make it even worse. The Carmichael Mine Project, located in the Galilee Basin, will go ahead despite warnings that coal transported from the mining site to the Abbot Point Port will cause irreparable damage to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. A new scientific study says the reef could be destroyed by environmental change before the end of the century. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial...
Into the dark: Two new encrusting anemones found in coral reef caves
2015-01-28 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Research primarily conducted in Okinawa, Japan, by graduate student Yuka Irei and associate professor James Davis Reimer from the University of the Ryukyus, along with Dr. Frederic Sinniger from JAMSTEC, has found two new species of encrusting anemones, or colonial zoantharians, in unexpected locations. The study was published in the open access journal <a href=”http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys” target=”_…
Australia orders waste dumping ban on Great Barrier Reef
2015-01-24 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia has ordered a ban on dumping dredge waste on most of the Great Barrier Reef, the environment minister said Saturday, as part of a push to stop the UN declaring the site in danger. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he had ordered the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to develop regulations to stop waste from capital dredging being dumped in the park "once and for all". "We are ending a century-old practice of dumping in the marine park," he said, referring to waste created...
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Study projects unprecedented loss of corals in Great Barrier Reef due to warming
2015-01-23 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Daily: The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short- and long-term consequences of environmental changes to the reef. Environmental change has caused the loss of more than half the world's reef building corals. Coral cover, a measure of the percentage of the seafloor covered by living coral, is now just 10-20 percent worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef, once thought to be...
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