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Australias other great reef is also screwed
2016-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Imagine arriving at a region famed for its foreststhe Pyrenees or the Rockies, perhapsand discovering that all the trees had vanished. Where just a few years ago there were trunks and leaves, now there is only moss. Thats how Thomas Wernberg and Scott Bennett felt in 2013, when they dropped into the waters of Kalbarri, halfway up the western coast of Australia. They last dived the area in 2010. Then, as in the previous decade, they had swum among vast forests of kelpa tagliatelle-like seaweed...
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This election, what hope is there for the Great Barrier Reef?
2016-07-01 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If the Great Barrier Reef is an election issue for you, then before you head to the polls this weekend, here are a few things worth noting about the major parties policies. Firstly, by way of background, remember that almost a quarter of the reef was killed by warm waters this year, in the worst bleaching event on record. And those water temperatures are expected to be average temperatures within 20 years. To give the reef a fighting chance of surviving that, scientists estimate $10bn needs to...
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Florida's coral reef system in rapid decay, scientists say
2016-06-27 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The most terrifying thing lurking under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean may not come with razor sharp teeth. Scientists say Florida's coral reef system, the third-largest in the world, is in rapid decay, with a variety of threats edging the delicate ecosystem closer to collapse sooner than anyone believed possible. "We didn't think this would happen for another 50 or 60 years," said Chris Langdon, a marine biologist at the University of Miami, who published a new report on the health of the reef...
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Scientists call for immediate action to save Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-26 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Busines Times: An international team of scientists and coral reef experts have, in a letter to the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, urged greater action to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef a region that is currently witnessing its worst bleaching event on record. The letter, signed by past and present presidents of the International Society for Reef Studies on behalf of over 2,000 attendees of the International Coral Reef Symposium recently held in Honolulu, was sent to Turnbull on Saturday. ...
Great Barrier Reef: scientists ask Malcolm Turnbull to curb fossil fuel use
2016-06-26 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As the largest international gathering of coral reef experts comes to a close, scientists have written to the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, calling for action to save the worlds reefs. The letter was sent to Turnbull on Saturday imploring his government to do more to conserve the nations reefs and curb fossil fuel consumption. The letter, signed by past and present presidents of the International Society for Reef Studies on behalf of the 2,000 attendees of the International...
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