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Dredging set to swamp decades of Great Barrier Reef protection
2013-12-04 12:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: For all the small gains weve made so far, it looks likely that pollution of the Great Barrier Reef is set to soar. Thanks to an extraordinary effort, we have stopped at least 360,000 tonnes of sediment and large amounts of other agricultural run-off polluting Australia's most famous natural wonder. Yet all that effort to protect the reef looks like it's about to be swamped. 140 million tonnes of marine sediment are proposed to be dredged during port development in the Great Barrier Reef over...
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FPL Expanding Artificial Reef System Off St. Lucie County Coast
2013-10-29 20:48:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Florida Power & Light Co. has removed and donated 25 power line poles that will be recycled to create another artificial reef the third one in less than a year off the coast of St. Lucie County. read more
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Australia: Competing visions for future of the Great Barrier Reef up for debate
2013-10-09 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmentalists and the mining industry have set out competing visions for the future of the Great Barrier Reef ahead of a summit that will aim to set Queensland's priorities for the next 30 years. The Queensland Plan, an initiative of the state government, will be finalised at a two-day meeting in Brisbane starting on Wednesday. More than 600 delegates from a range of community and business groups are attending the gathering. The plan, which the government said would help "define a long-term...
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Great Barrier Reef fears: environment groups step up fight against gas projects
2013-10-08 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: American environmental groups have escalated a lawsuit against the US government which aims to prevent it funding two "deadly" gas facilities beside the Great Barrier Reef. The three groups have filed a challenge to the funding of a second facility, which is being backed by the US Export-Import Bank, to add to an original lawsuit that was launched in December last year. The NGOs the Centre for Biological Diversity, the Turtle Island Restoration Network and Pacific Environment initially...
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Reef surveyors track bleaching in Bermuda in wake of NOAA alert
2013-09-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: A team of scientists equipped with high-tech underwater cameras is documenting a coral-bleaching event in Bermuda. The Catlin Seaview Survey -- led by researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, and sponsored by the insurance and reinsurance company Catlin Group Ltd. -- raced to Bermuda this month after the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a bleaching alert as water around the islands' reefs grew dangerously warm. "As soon as we got in the water we observed...
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