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Indonesia coral reefs under dire climate-change threat
2015-02-12 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Indonesia's once pristine coral reefs have been severely threatened by rising temperatures reportedly caused by climate change. They are suffering from bleaching, so instead of their normal myriad of colours, they are turning completely white. Al Jazeera's Steve Chao visited one of the world's most important coral reefs facing destruction in Indonesia.
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Coral reefs are about to crash in a big way
2015-01-28 20:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Coral reefs cover just 0.1 percent of the ocean floor, but provide habitat to 25 percent of sea-dwelling fish species. That`s why coral scientist C. Mark Eakin, who coordinates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration`s Coral Reef Watch program, is surprised that the warning he has been sounding since last year - that the globe`s corals appear to be on the verge of a mass-scale bleaching event - hasn`t drawn more media attention. Bleaching happens when corals lose contact with zooxanthellae,...
Coral reefs facing heat of thermal, chemical impact: Experts
2014-12-17 01:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Coral reefs which are home to over 25 per cent of marine life, are facing a double blow across the globe in the form of thermal and chemical impact, a senior scientist said. "Thermal impact on the earth is seen in terms of global warming. Earth has warmed by about 0.34 degree Celsius since the mid 1970s and the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001," senior scientist with Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Dr Mahua Saha, told representatives of SAARC nations. ...
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Acid damage to coral reefs could cost $1 trillion
2014-10-08 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Ocean acidification is set to cost us $1 trillion by 2100 as it eats away at our tropical coral reefs. That's the warning from a report released today by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, which assesses the economic impacts the problem could have. The ocean's pH is now 8.0, down from 8.1 in the mid-18th century. Because the pH scale is logarithmic, this change means that, over the past 250 years, the world's oceans have seen a 26 per cent increase in acidity - a result...
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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