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Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Marine scientists in the Seychelles are propagating and replanting corals resistant to bleaching in the hope of replacing destroyed reefs in the western Indian Ocean with ones that are more resilient. Each workday, Claude Reveret and Sarah Frias-Torres of Nature Seychelles, a not-for-profit environmental organisation, lead a team of scuba divers down to the ocean floor around Praslin, the country's second-largest island, and the nearby Cousin Island Special Reserve. There they take part in...

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Japan: Toll of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb

2014-01-11 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar. So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed. Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other American ships. U.S. sailors irradiated...

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In devastated Philippine city, anger grows, aid elusive

2013-11-11 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Hung outside a shattered church in the Philippine coastal city of Tacloban, on a road flanked with uncollected corpses and canyons of debris, is a handwritten sign. It read, "We need help!" Relief supplies are pouring into Tacloban three days after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, turned this once-vibrant port city of 220,000 into a corpse-choked wasteland. Tacloban city administrator Tecson Juan Lim says the death toll in this city alone "could go up to 10,000."...

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Philippines Devastated by Typhoon Millions Affected

2013-11-10 22:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: Super Typhoon Yolanda, known outside the Philippines as Haiyan, battered parts of the Philippine archipelago on Friday, making landfall six times before blowing westward on Saturday over the South China Sea towards northern Vietnam and southern China. The worst storm in Philippine history blasted through the country, packing winds of 235 kilometers per hour (147 miles per hour) with gusts of 275 kph (170 mph). Yolanda`s storm surge caused ocean waters to rise up to six meters (20 feet). Only...

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