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Devastating global coral bleaching event could hit Great Barrier Reef next
2016-02-23 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The third global coral bleaching event to be recorded is snaking its way around a warming globe, devastating reefs and now threatening the world-heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. This week it was announced the bleaching event, which began in 2014, is already the longest in history and could extend well into 2017. We may be looking at a two- to two-and-a-half-year-long event. Some areas have already seen bleaching two years in a row, says Mark Eakin, coordinator of the Coral Reef Watch program...
Major Milestone In Community Effort To Protect Hawaii's Puak Reef From Further Pollution
2016-02-08 02:20:28| pollutiononline Home Page
Today, the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) released a highly anticipated Preliminary Engineering Report that charts the path forward for protecting one of the most significant reefs in the main Hawaiian Islands
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Billionaire Conservationist's Yacht Damages Coral Reef
2016-01-29 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Billionaire Paul Allen has given millions of dollars to conservation causes over the years, including ones that support ocean exploration and preservation. But earlier this month, his 300-foot yacht Tatoosh allegedly caused significant damage to a protected coral reef in the Cayman Islands. The anchor and chain of the vessel allegedly damaged 14,000 square feet of reef on January 14, according to Cayman Islands' Department of Environment. The incident occurred in a protected area of Grand Cayman...
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NASA's CORAL Mission Takes Reef Studies To New Level
2016-01-12 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: NASA plans to take a new and improved approach to studying coral reefs this year, with the launch of a three-year field expedition conducted with advanced instruments to survey the world's reefs in far greater detail than ever before. Researchers from the COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) will take aerial and up-close, underwater measurements to better assess the condition of these threatened ecosystems. Their findings will be used to create a unique database of uniform scale and quality,...
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China lands its first flight on Fiery Cross Reef runway in South China Sea
2016-01-05 01:00:00| Naval Technology
China has reportedly landed its first civilian flight on the runway of one of its newly constructed islands on the Fiery Cross Reef in Spratly Islands, South China Sea.
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