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Tourism threatening white sand beaches, coral reefs in Asia
2013-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: The white sand beaches make Boracay island one of the world's favorite tourist destinations. However, over-development and a lack of social infrastructure are threatening to swallow up this valuable tourist asset. The problem is clearly evident every day as tourists, who were at one point relaxing on deck chairs set out on the beach, have to hike up their shorts and dresses as tides come rolling in right up to where their hotels are located. Dionisio Salme, the owner of a hotel on Boracay,...
Why Some Coral Reefs Might Survive Climate Change
2013-08-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Popular Science: The world is clobbering coral reefs, home to 25 percent of all marine species. Agricultural runoff pollutes the water around them; coastal developments tear them up; overfishing kills their inhabitants; and carbon dioxide emissions make the oceans too hot and acidic. In a provocative op-ed for the New York Times last year, Roger Bradbury, an ecologist at Australian National University, declared that reefs are zombie ecosystems . . . on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation. The slightly...
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New study finds 80% of Caribbean coral reefs destroyed since 1960s
2013-08-02 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A major survey of the coral reefs of the Caribbean is expected to reveal the extent to which one of the worlds biggest and most important reserves of coral has been degraded by climate change, pollution, overfishing and degradation. The Catlin scientific survey will undertake the most comprehensive survey yet of the state of the regions reefs, starting in Belize and moving on to Mexico, Anguilla, Barbuda, St Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Florida and Bermuda. The Catlin scientists said the state...
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Sand dunes, coral reefs protect coasts against climate change
2013-07-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Protecting sand dunes and coral reefs can help defend the United Statess coasts against costly extreme-weather events linked to climate change, according to a new study. Maintaining coastal habitats could halve the people, low-income families, the elderly and total value of residential property most exposed to rising sea levels, floods and storms associated with climate change, the study concluded. Extreme weather, sea-level rise and degraded coastal ecosystems are placing people and property...
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Coral Reefs Face Point of No Return
2013-07-12 14:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Without deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, the planets coral reefs could be in serious trouble. In a world in which humans continue to burn fossil fuels unchecked, ocean conditions will become ultimately inhospitable, according to U.S. scientists. Katharine Ricke and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution in Washington and colleagues make their sombre prediction in Environmental Research Letters. Their argument on the face of it seems inconsistent with other recent research on reef response...
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