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Coral reefs suffering, but collapse not inevitable
2013-05-09 20:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are in decline, but their collapse can still be avoided with local and global action. That's according to findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 9 based on an analysis that combines the latest science on reef dynamics with the latest climate models. "People benefit by reefs' having a complex structure -- a little like a Manhattan skyline, but underwater," said Peter Mumby of The University of Queensland and University of Exeter. "Structurally complex reefs...
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Global warming changing nature of New Zealand coral reefs
2013-05-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Global warming might be killing off many species of coral as the world's oceans acidify, but the future for biodiversity in coral reefs might not be as bleak as previously forecast, according to a study by New Zealand and Australian scientists. "It has been predicted that many reefs will end up being dominated by algae rather than corals, which will have negative effects on biodiversity and ultimately on the ability of humans to derive protein from reefs," marine biologist Dr James Bell, of New...
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Insights Into Deadly Coral Bleaching Could Help Preserve Reefs
2013-04-23 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Coral reefs are stressed the world over and could be in mortal danger because of climate change. But why do some corals die and others not, even when exposed to the same environmental conditions? An interdisciplinary research team from Northwestern University and The Field Museum of Natural History has a surprising answer: The corals themselves play a role in their susceptibility to deadly coral bleaching due to the light-scattering properties of their skeletons. No one else has shown this before....
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Impacts of Climate Change on Coral Reefs and the Marine Environment
2013-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
UN Chronicle: It is estimated that 70 per cent of the Earths surface area is made up of oceans,1 the most productive habitat, comprising 75 per cent of all known species. This unique environment, which remains generally unexplored and hidden from the world, plays an important role in regulating global temperature and is the primary producer of oxygen. Coral reefs, which comprise only about 0.5 per cent of the ocean floor, are complex three-dimensional structures built up over thousands of years as a result of...
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Can Acid Neutralizers Help Coral Reefs Bounce Back?
2013-04-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Coral reefs are in trouble worldwide, from a host of threats, including warming ocean temperatures, nutrient runoff and increasing ocean acidity. A noted climate scientist from California has been conducting an experiment on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to see whether antacid could boost coral growth.
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