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Ocean Acidification Diminishing Great Barrier Reef Corals
2014-09-18 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Corals in the Great Barrier Reef are diminishing, and scientists are blaming ocean acidification for their dangerously low growth rates, a new study describes. Coral growth rates have plummeted 40 percent since the mid-1970s, and given that the Australian reef is the site of the largest collection of corals - over 400 types - scientists are getting worried. "Coral reefs are getting hammered," study leader Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution said in a press release. Not only from ocean acidification,...
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Effect ocean acidification: Coral growth rate Great Barrier Reef plummets 30-year comparison
2014-09-18 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A team of researchers working on a Carnegie expedition in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has documented that coral growth rates have plummeted 40% since the mid-1970s. The scientists suggest that ocean acidification may be playing an important role in this perilous slowdown. In a quest for historical context on the peril facing coral reefs, the team compared current measurements of the growth rate of a section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef with similar measurements taken more than 30 years...
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Barrier Reef dredging: Queensland approves plan dump spoil on land
2014-09-08 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The Queensland government wants to pay for dredged seabed from a major coal port expansion to be dumped on land instead of in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The premier, Campbell Newman, announced on Monday that cabinet had approved a new disposal plan for dredge spoil at the Abbot Point coal port near Bowen, which would reuse the material on land. The federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, has been asked to fast-track the application. It comes despite North Queensland Bulk Ports...
Dumping ban urged for Australias iconic reef
2014-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Mirror: Increased effort is needed to protect Australias iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR), which is in serious decline and will likely deteriorate further in the future, according to a new report. Greater reductions of all threats at all levels, reef-wide, regional and local, are required to prevent the projected declines, said an outlook report by the GBR Marine Park Authority, the government agency responsible for protecting the reef. However, the same agency recently approved the dumping of 5...
Australia: Great Barrier Reef Avoids Muddy Disaster
2014-09-04 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Conservationists have been slapping each other on the back this week after plans to dump 5 million metric tons of mud into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has been cancelled. However, people are now asking where the mud will go, and aren't getting much of an answer. The mud is expected to be drudged up from the ocean floor as part of a port expansion in northeast Australia. Last month Environment Minister Andrew Powell found himself at odds with reef conservationalists and activists after minister...
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