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Protection of Parrotfish Could Slow Decline of Caribbean Reefs
2014-07-08 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The steady loss of coral reefs in the Caribbean could be partially reversed by taking a number of relatively simple steps, including stronger measures to protect the regions parrotfish, according to a new study. In a review of trends in Caribbean coral reefs from 1970 to 2012, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network said that live coral only makes up about 17 percent of the regions reef surfaces today. If present trends continue, the study said, coral reefs in the Caribbean will virtually disappear...
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Caribbean coral reefs could disappear "within a few decades."
2014-07-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Coral reefs in the Caribbean are on track to "virtually disappear within a few decades," a major new report warns. But there's also a way to slow decline. Protecting just a single fish -- the brightly colored parrotfish -- could help save the reefs from doom. There's little doubt that the Caribbean's coral reefs have declined sharply since the 1970s, under heavy stress from invasive pathogens, overfishing, coastal pollution, tourism, and now global warming that's heating up the oceans. It's...
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Caribbean coral reefs in alarming decline, but problem can be reversed
2014-07-03 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Caribbean coral reefs are at risk of disappearing within the next 20 years because of pollution, overfishing and the loss of grazers, unless action is taken to restore them to full health. A new comprehensive study by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment Programme (Unep) analysed more than 100 locations in the Caribbean generating tourism revenue of around $3 billion and found that coral reef in the region...
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Caribbean Reefs Declining at an Alarming Rate: Report
2014-07-02 12:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Most Caribbean reefs will disappear in the next two decades, a new report states. Researchers said that around 50 percent of the Caribbean coral reef has declined in the past fifty years. Around 90 experts, over the course of three years, have worked on the report, Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970-2012. Around nine percent of the world's corals live in the Caribbean. These ecologically diverse reefs are a crucial part of the Caribbean economy. Tourism and fisheries in the Caribbean...
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Hit by slime, Caribbean corals could vanish in two decades: report
2014-07-02 08:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Most coral reefs in the Caribbean could vanish in the next two decades, hit by the loss of fish and sea urchins that eat a slime of coral-smothering algae, a U.N.-backed study said on Wednesday. The review, the most comprehensive to date of Caribbean reefs that are vital tourist attractions for many island nations, said climate change had played only a minor role in the reefs' demise, despite past speculation it was a main cause. "With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most...
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