Great Barrier Reef island coral decline
A long-term study of coral cover on island groups of the Great Barrier Reef has found declines of between 40 and 50 percent of live, hard corals at inshore island groups during the past few decades.
A long-term study of coral cover on island groups of the Great Barrier Reef has found declines of between 40 and 50 percent of live, hard corals at inshore island groups during the past few decades.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2019
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At the edge of an ancient lava flow where jagged black rocks meet the Pacific, small off-the-grid homes overlook the calm blue waters of Papa Bay on Hawaii's Big Island—no tourists or hotels in sight. Here, one of the islands' ...
Environment
Sep 23, 2019
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July ended with the hottest recorded average temperature since people have been making daily readings. A huge chunk of Greenland has melted, Arctic seas have opened, and the diversity of life on Earth is threatened.
Environment
Aug 28, 2019
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A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown the impact phosphate mining is having on our coral reefs.
Environment
Aug 6, 2019
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Hawaiian "super corals" that have recovered despite living in warm and acidic water offer a glimmer of hope that dying reefs across the world could be saved, a new study says.
Environment
May 15, 2019
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The ship at the centre of an environmental disaster near World-Heritage listed waters in the Solomon Islands was refloated Saturday after being stranded on a coral reef for more than three months.
Environment
May 11, 2019
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With as many as a million species threatened with extinction due to mankind's destruction of the planet, there have been scant conservation successes in recent years.
Ecology
May 2, 2019
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The world's southernmost coral reef has been hit by bleaching this summer, Australian scientists said Wednesday, as they warned rising sea temperatures from climate change were affecting even the most isolated ecosystems.
Environment
Apr 3, 2019
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Climate change has fueled coral reef bleaching throughout the tropics, with negative consequences for reef ecosystems and the people who depend on them. A new study finds that in the Caribbean, independent island nations ...
Environment
Feb 21, 2019
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Copernicus Sentinel-2 brings you some of the jewels of the Maldives for Valentine's week. Arguably one of the most romantic destinations in the world, the Maldives lie in the Indian Ocean about 700 km southwest of Sri Lanka. ...
Environment
Feb 15, 2019
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