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Bleaching 'devastates' UK tropical reef
2016-06-07 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK's largest tropical reef has been devastated in the global bleaching event now under way. Up to 85% of the corals in the Chagos Marine Reserve of the British Indian Ocean Territory are estimated to have been damaged or killed in the event. Scientists say the conditions there are worse than in 1998 - the last major bleaching occurrence. The problem is caused by anomalously warm water, which prompts the coral polyps to eject their symbiotic algae. This drains them of their colour...
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The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare
2016-06-07 01:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The stench of death It was the smell that really got to diver Richard Vevers. The smell of death on the reef. I cant even tell you how bad I smelt after the dive the smell of millions of rotting animals. Vevers is a former advertising executive and is now the chief executive of the Ocean Agency, a not-for-profit company he founded to raise awareness of environmental problems. After diving for 30 years in his spare time, he was compelled to combine his work and hobby when he was struck...
To save the Great Barrier Reef 'we need to start now, right now'
2016-06-07 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Jon Brodie from James Cook University says to give the Great Barrier Reef even a fighting chance to survive, Australia needs to spend $1bn a year for the next 10 years to improve water quality. If we dont do that now, he says, we might need to just give up on the reef. Climate change is happening much more quickly and much more severely than most scientists predicted
Australia: Coral bleaching 'has changed the Great Barrier Reef forever'
2016-06-07 01:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Terry Hughes from James Cook University in Queensland leads a taskforce measuring the condition of the Great Barrier Reef amid a global coral bleaching event that is off the scale. The kind of bleaching were seeing now is an entirely modern phenomenon, he says. Were now in a very precarious position, where every El Nio that comes along, every five or six years, can potentially bleach the entire Great Barrier Reef
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Great Barrier Reef: diving in the stench of millions of rotting animals
2016-06-07 01:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Richard Vevers from the Ocean Agency had never experienced anything like the devastation he witnessed in May diving around the dead and dying coral reefs off Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. When his team emerged from the water, he says, We realised we just stank we stank of the smell of rotting animals. The reefs around the island have been ravaged by coral bleaching caused by climate change
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