The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching event, according to scientists who conducted aerial surveys over hundreds of individual reefs, as The Guardian reported. According to NBC News, the entire Great Barrier Reef is suffering a period of unprecedented heat stress. This bleaching event […]
Researchers released a sobering study this week showing that all of the world’s coral reefs may be lost to the climate crisis by 2100. The bleak outlook means that restoration efforts will face Herculean challenges, according to the research presented by researchers at this week’s Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 in San Diego, California. Rising sea […]
Only the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will get to play in Super Bowl 54 in Miami Sunday. But anyone can make a #SuperCoralPlay. That’s the name of a joint campaign from MSC Cruises, the Miami Super Bowl Host Committee (MSBHC),and 54 NFL players and influencers to raise awareness about the need […]
As the Pacific Ocean becomes more acidic, Dungeness crabs, which live in coastal areas, are seeing their shells eaten away, according to a new study commissioned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The study authors looked at ocean acidification levels from 2016. They found that the lowered pH is dissolving the shells of […]
By Jessica Corbett In a new report about how the world’s coral reefs face “the combined threats of climate change, pollution, and overfishing” — endangering the future of marine biodiversity — a London-based nonprofit calls for greater global efforts to end the climate crisis and ensure the survival of these vital underwater ecosystems. The report, […]
Scientists have identified four new species of walking shark in the waters off Australia and New Guinea. While that might sound like the stuff of horror films, researchers say that the foot-long fish, which have evolved to use their fins to walk on land or in shallow water, are actually adorable. “They’re incredibly cute little […]
Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world to make sure that 2020 is not another year of conferences and empty promises, but instead is the year to take decisive action to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and the destruction […]
The world’s oceans just had their warmest year on record. A study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Monday found that ocean temperatures reached record highs in 2019, and this is not an anomaly: The past five years have also been the warmest for the oceans since reliable measurements began in the 1950s. [THREAD,1/9] Ocean […]
Last year’s brutal heat waves that swept through Europe, caused wildfires in Alaska and Siberia, and have left Australia as a tinderbox registered as the second hottest year ever — 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit or 0.04 degrees Celsius cooler than 2016, according to scientists at the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an intergovernmental agency supported by the […]
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