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These reefs are beautiful but most of the coral is dead
2014-05-07 15:38:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: One tiny Caribbean island is scrambling to save its coral in the face of global warming. Grand Cayman Island is a speck of white sand about twice the size of Manhattan floating in the Caribbean Sea halfway between Cuba and Belize. It`s known mainly as an offshore tax haven--"Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort spoke to a gathering of business leaders there recently--and as a stopover for cruise ships packed with sunburned Americans sipping bright blue cocktails with paper umbrellas. It`s also...
Coral Reefs Down for Count
2014-05-01 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: My visit to Heron Island revealed that evolution does not always generate elegant or even obviously efficient solutions. Instead, the island ecosystem, with its bird-killing trees and turtle-gobbling sharks, is built on what appear to be profligately inefficient exploitation of the rich resources generated by the reef. To me, the coral reef, with its myriad species and complex food webs, seems fully-realized and enduring, while the relatively few island species form an ecosystem that seems more tenuous...
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Dying coral reefs threaten the livelihood of millions
2014-04-23 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Declining coral reef health is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of people living in the coastal tropics, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers. Lead author Dr Alice Rogers said coral reefs were dying due to pollution, climate change and overfishing and further decline would impact on reef fisheries. "We studied coral reefs in the Caribbean where many people rely on reef fisheries for food and income," said Dr Rogers from UQ's School of Biological...
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Research shows fishing affects coral reef recovery
2014-04-19 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Sunday News: Climate change continues to warm the waters around the islands in the Pacific Ocean, causing various types of damage to the surrounding reefs. One ecologist from the University of Guam believes "localized stressors" have a large impact on the recovery time of coral reef communities. But if looked at from a stakeholder approach, he's confident island communities can clearly define the future of coral reef communities. Peter Houk, coral reef ecologist from UOG's Marine Laboratory, presented...
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Coral reefs of the Mozambique Channel a leading candidate for saving marine diversity
2014-04-10 09:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Marine scientists keen on finding patterns of coral decline and persistence in gradually warming oceans have a complex challenge: how to save reefs containing the most diversity with limited resources. In the Western Indian Ocean, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Warwick, the ARC Centre for Excellence of Coral Reef Studies, Simon Fraser University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and other groups have found that the corals of the Mozambique Channel...
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