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Great Barrier Reef should be prioritised over coal mining, survey shows
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The effects of coral bleaching include the formation of an insidious layer of slime, now coating a vast area of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists say. A thumping majority of Australians want the health of the Great Barrier Reef prioritised over coal mining, according to a survey of more than 63,000 Fairfax Media readers. People living in mining states, the lower-educated, older people and men were less likely to agree to such a trade-off. Queensland's Abbot Point, surrounded by wetlands...
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Can 'super coral' save the Great Barrier Reef?
2016-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: As fears mount over the Great Barrier Reef's worst coral bleaching event in recorded history, biotechnologists in Australia are looking at ways to grow "super coral" that is more tolerant of global warming, writes Ian Lloyd Neubauer. Heat-resistant coral is not an artificial construct. The mutation occurs naturally in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia, where the world's longest tropical tides create super-heated tide pools where corals have found ways to adapt and survive. "The...
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Great Barrier Reef: Australia Pledges $740M To Protect Climate Change-Ravaged Structure
2016-06-13 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The past few months have brought in a raft of news about the health of the iconic Great Barrier Reef -- each one worse than the last. According to recent surveys, over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure has been affected by some level of coral bleaching -- an event that occurs when corals, stressed by rising water temperature and acidity, expel the symbiotic algae living within their tissues. This bleaching event, which is the worst in the reefs history, has killed 35 percent of its corals in...
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Australian PM pledges A$1 bln to help ailing Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 06:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, facing a tight re-election battle, pledged on Monday a A$1 billion ($738 million) fund for the Great Barrier Reef, where scientists say mass coral bleaching has destroyed vast tracts of the World Heritage site. A report late last month said mass coral bleaching, caused by climate change, had destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef and that the coral mortality rate would likely rise. The report cast a shadow over...
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Abbot Point Port: the divisive coal project on the Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Australias ambition to build one of the worlds largest coal ports at Abbot Point has caused international uproar over the projects perceived environmental threat. The expansion site is located in close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO
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