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Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching: Greg Hunt sets up urgent phone conference
2016-04-20 05:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has invited his Queensland counterpart to take part in a urgent phone conference about coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. It comes after Queensland Environment Minister Steven Miles called for a crisis meeting with other state and territory environment ministers to address climate change. Mr Hunt has written to Dr Miles to invite him and "any other relevant Queensland officials" to join the conference call. "I invite you to an urgent phone conference...
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Great Barrier Reef: 93% of reefs hit by coral bleaching
2016-04-19 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost 93% of reefs on the Great Barrier Reef have been hit by coral bleaching, according to a comprehensive survey revealing the full extent of the devastation caused by abnormally warm ocean temperatures sweeping the globe. There have only been three mass bleaching events recorded on the reef , and all of them have happened since 1998. Scientists say this episode is the worst theyve ever seen. The world is in the midst of a global bleaching event, which is a result of a pulse of warm water...
Largest Coral Atoll in the World Lost 80 Percent of Its Coral to Bleaching
2016-04-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The largest coral atoll in the world, Kiritimati, has lost 80 percent of its coral in the past 10 months due to this years devastating coral bleaching event and another 15 percent is likely to die, scientists reported. The Pacific has been experiencing abnormally warm water temperatures for months, causing extreme stress to corals and the species that rely on them. This is the longest coral bleaching event ever recorded and scientists are becoming increasingly pessimistic that the affected reefs...
Why dead coral reefs could mark beginning of dangerous climate change
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: The island of Kiritimati is one of the worlds most remote places -- one of several dozen atolls making up the tiny island nation of Kiribati, a speck in the Pacific Ocean more than a thousand miles south of Hawaii. But, isolated as it is, news of its devastated coral is turning heads around the world. A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die-off -- an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around...
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Mass coral bleaching now affecting half Australia Great Barrier Reef
2016-04-11 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The mass coral bleaching event smashing the Great Barrier Reef has severely affected more than half its length and caused patches of bleaching in most areas, according to scientists conducting an extensive aerial survey of the damage. The good news with my last flight is that I found 50 reefs that werent bleached, so that may be the southern boundary, said Terry Hughes from James Cook University. Hughes is the head of the national coral bleaching task force, which has been conducting flights...
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