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Scientists Confirm: 93% of Great Barrier Reef Now Bleached
2016-04-21 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The Great Barrier Reef is under siege from climate change and coal, with scientists confirming that 93 percent of the world heritage area is now suffering from severe coral bleaching. The unprecedented event, caused by climate change warming the ocean, is being called an environmental assault on the largest coral ecosystem on Earth. Only around 50 percent of the impacted corals are expected to survive, and in some areas, only a mere 10 percent may recover. So heavy is the toll, 56 scientists...
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BP Oil Spill Trashed More Shoreline Than Scientists Thought
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The largest oil spill in U.S. history was even bigger than previously thought, at least in terms of the amount of coastline that was oiled, scientists report in a new study. The findings shed new light onto the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which began six years ago Wednesday. Scientists from the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several private research companies found oil along 1,313 miles (2,113 kilometers) out of 5,930 miles (9,545...
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Half Australia's Great Barrier Reef coral 'dead or dying': scientists
2016-04-20 08:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: SYDNEY Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef, which attracts around A$5 billion ($3.90 billion) in tourism every year, has been untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half the coral. Bleaching occurs when the water is too warm, forcing coral to expel living algae and causing it to calcify and turn white. Mildly bleached coral can recover if the temperature drops, otherwise it may die. Although the impact has been exacerbated...
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Scientists Start to Look at Ground Beneath Their Feet for Solution to Climate Change
2016-04-17 15:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate scientists anxious to find ways to limit atmospheric greenhouse gases have started to look at the ground beneath their feet. They calculate that although the worlds soils already hold 2.4 trillion tonnes of gases in the form of organic carbon, theres room for more. Scientists from the U.S. and Scotland report in Nature journal that with a few changes to agricultural practice, there would be room for another 8 billion tonnes. In our fight to avoid dangerous climate change in the...
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A.G.U. will accept Exxon money, despite scientists' protest
2016-04-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inside Climate News: The American Geophysical Union announced Thursday that it will continue to accept sponsorship money from ExxonMobil. The decision came after more than 100 AGU members and other scientists sent a letter to the organization's leadership in February urging the association to stop accepting money from the oil giant. The letter noted that Exxon was under investigation by the New York and California attorneys general "for its long history of climate denial campaigns." Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin...
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