By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Thursday, November 04, 2010, 10:00 PM A brown substance is killing coral organisms in colonies located 4,600 feet deep about seven miles southwest of the failed BP Macondo oil well, according to scientists who returned Thursday from a three-week cruise studying coral reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The […]
Wellington (AFP) Oct 27, 2010 – Pacific island fisheries face collapse in the next 25 years as overfishing, population growth and climate change threaten one of the region’s main economic resources, a study warned Wednesday. The report, [pdf] published by the Noumea-based Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), said the two billion US dollar a […]
Gil Smart says that after a summer of climate catastrophes, conservative climate change deniers have to work extra hard to ignore the obvious. Climate denial: More to deny than ever via R. Pauli Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,coral,Indonesia,ocean,flood,wildfire,forest fire,heat wave
The Associated Press Monday, October 18, 2010, 4:00 PM Six months after the rig explosion that led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, damage to the Gulf of Mexico can be measured more in increments than extinctions, say scientists polled by The Associated Press. In an informal survey, 35 researchers who study […]
(Ohio State University) Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water traceable to recent global warming. The finding is the first real evidence supporting what climate modelers have been predicting as the […]
Contact: Beth King, kingb@si.edu 12 October 2010 (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Bocas del Toro Research Station and Galeta Point Marine Laboratory are reporting an anomalous sea temperature rise and a major coral bleaching event in the Western Caribbean. Although the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, issued an advisory […]
By Ella Davies, Earth News reporter8 October 2010 Coral reefs are increasingly under threat from environmental stress in the form of climate change, coastal development, overfishing, and pollution. Climate change is suspected of causing a number of coral bleaching events, as rising sea temperatures stress coral communities. But the latest study, published in the journal […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2010) — The “turtle and dugong capital of the world”, the northern Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait region, faces increased pressure under climate change from human actions such as fishing, hunting, onshore development and pollution. “Depletion of turtle and dugong numbers increases their vulnerability to other threats and lowers their ability […]
By James PatonOct 5, 2010 8:16 PM PT Future oil spills off the coast of Australia’s Queensland state are “inevitable” as ship traffic increases, according to a report analyzing the April grounding of a Chinese coal carrier on the Great Barrier Reef. The incident involving the vessel Shen Neng 1 “highlights the vulnerability of Queensland’s […]
Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of one of the most ambitious scientific studies of our time – an investigation into what is happening to our oceans. He looks at whether it is too late to save their remarkable biodiversity. Horizon travels from the cold waters of the North Atlantic to the tropical waters of […]
