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Australia orders waste dumping ban on Great Barrier Reef
2015-01-24 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia has ordered a ban on dumping dredge waste on most of the Great Barrier Reef, the environment minister said Saturday, as part of a push to stop the UN declaring the site in danger. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he had ordered the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to develop regulations to stop waste from capital dredging being dumped in the park "once and for all". "We are ending a century-old practice of dumping in the marine park," he said, referring to waste created...
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Study projects unprecedented loss of corals in Great Barrier Reef due to warming
2015-01-23 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Daily: The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short- and long-term consequences of environmental changes to the reef. Environmental change has caused the loss of more than half the world's reef building corals. Coral cover, a measure of the percentage of the seafloor covered by living coral, is now just 10-20 percent worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef, once thought to be...
Small drop in sea level had big impact on southern Great Barrier Reef
2015-01-22 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â University of Sydney researchers have analysed samples from One Tree Reef in the southern Great Barrier Reef and discovered a dramatic slow down following a small fall in sea level. <a href=”http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/85494.php” targe…
For vulnerable barrier islands, a rush to rebuild on US coast
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Six years ago, Hurricane Ike nearly wiped the barrier island of Bolivar off the Texas map. A 17-foot storm surge destroyed nearly every home in some communities and killed at least 15 people. Long-time residents feared the wild, sandy spit of land between the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Bay would never recover. Today, Bolivar is definitely back, and bigger than ever. Small fishing cabins and trailers have given way to candy-colored homes that sit on pilings more than a dozen feet above the ground....
Husky Showcases New Barrier Solution, Demonstrates Range of Innovative Technologies for Beverage Packaging, Medical and Hot Runners at NPE 2015
2015-01-12 11:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
BOLTON, Ontario Husky Injection Molding Systems today announced that at NPE 2015 (March 23 27, Orlando, Florida) it will be showcasing its latest technologies for the beverage packaging, medical and hot runner markets, demonstrating that it provides customers with the highest levels of quality, productivity and...
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