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Lizard Island corals 'slimy' after bleaching
2016-06-07 14:12:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Once colourful corals surrounding a Great Barrier Reef island have turned a ghastly shade of brown, with new images showing how algae has impacted the natural wonder. WWF Australia says the photos were taken last month at Lizard Island, the "ground zero" of a mass bleaching event that's killed an estimated 22 per cent of the reef's corals. "Some people see coral bleached white and think it looks pretty. But this is what follows - it's literally an attack of the slime," WWF Australia spokesman...
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Best protected Great Barrier Reef corals are now dead
2016-06-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The sweeping reefs growing off 200 steamy miles of remote Australian coastline -- from Cairns to Cape Melville, home to sugar farms and dive resorts -- contained some of the least damaged corals growing in one of the world's best marine parks. Until now. In stunning new findings that have laid bare the limitations of marine parks as defenses against rapid environmental change, more than half of the corals surveyed in large chunks of this pristine stretch of the Great Barrier Reef are expected...
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Northern Great Barrier Reef Loses 35% of Its Corals
2016-05-31 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: One-third of the corals in the northern and central parts of the Great Barrier Reef are bleached out and dying due to climate change, according to Australian researchers. The scientists have just finished months of intensive aerial and underwater surveys that documented the worst-ever bleaching event in the reef`s history. "We found on average, that 35 percent of the corals are now dead or dying on 84 reefs that we surveyed along the northern and central sections of the Great Barrier Reef, between...
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'Huge wake up call': Third of central, northern Great Barrier Reef corals dead
2016-05-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: More than one-third of the coral reefs of the central and northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef have died in the huge bleaching event earlier this year, Queensland researchers said. Corals to the north of Cairns covering about two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef were found to have an average mortality rate of 35 per cent, rising to more than half in areas around Cooktown. Researchers inspected 84 reefs and found coral mortality rates of 50 per cent or more in the north of the Great...
Florida Dredging Would Cut Path Across Corals in Crisis
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As America's only barrier reefs bleach, dissolve and succumb to disease, experts worry that a $320 million plan to expand oil and cargo shipments through Florida's corals could worsen flooding and threaten ecosystems crucial to fisheries and tourism businesses. Transplanted staghorn coral providing habitat for fish in Florida. In addition to being one of the world's busiest cruise ship terminals, Port Everglades, which in greater Fort Lauderdale is a 45-minute drive north of Miami, is a critical...
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