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Time running out for Great Barrier Reef:..
2014-03-06 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSN: Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, marine scientists said Thursday. Stretching along more than 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of Australia's eastern coast is one of the world's formost natural wonders - The Great Barrier Reef as shown is this file NASA satellite image In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef...
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Australia: Killer starfish threatens Great Barrier Reef
2014-02-16 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Waves of carnivorous starfish are eating their way through Australia's Great Barrier Reef - and sugar cane farming is being blamed. Researchers at Australia's Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), just outside Townsville, Queensland, in north-east Australia, have mapped the pattern of destruction. "Coral cover is half of what it was 27 years ago, coral cover is going down at an alarming rate." Dr Katharina Fabricius, coral reef ecologist and AIMS principal research scientist, told the BBC World...
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A reef already under stress
2014-02-05 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With a plan to dump dredge sediment on part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park set to go ahead, Joel Werner reports on the threats to the already fragile ecosystem and the scientists working to save it. 'Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef is half of what it was 27 years ago.' Katharina Fabricius, a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), pins the blame for that sobering statistic mainly on storms, crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and coral...
Australia: Great Barrier Reef will be smothered with silt, because coal
2014-01-31 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Australia`s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - a supposedly protected natural area containing thousands of reefs, which together are visible from space and attract nearly $6 billion a year in tourism - is a pretty terrible place to dump loads of silt. But it`s happening: The federal agency that governs the reef approved plans to dump up to 3 million cubic meters of silt that will be dredged from the marine park to help carve a superhighway for tankers ferrying coal to Asia. It`s the final piece...
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Rising carbon dioxide affecting health fish living on Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-31 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MARK COLVIN: Queensland researchers say rising carbon dioxide levels are causing worsening health effects for fish living on the Great Barrier Reef. A James Cook University study has found the changed water quality is affecting the eyesight of some reef fish. A conservation group says the findings are a further reminder of the extraordinary pressure being placed on the reef. Caitlyn Gribbin has more. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: The Great Barrier Reef is a case study for climate change and its impact....
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