Healthy Reefs, Dying Reefs, and Corals in Bocas del Toro, Panama:(A) Example of a healthy reef with abundant living coral. (B) Example of a reef in which most coral has died and been replaced by macroalgae. (C) Bleached and healthy coral colonies; both are alive but the bleached colony has lost its symbiotic algae. (D) [...]
After the flooding in late January in the Fitzroy catchment, and the downpour in Mackay causing rising levels in the Pioneer river earlier this month, the turbulent Queensland weather has caused more phenomenal localised rainfall in Rockhampton this morning, with over 200mm of rain falling in less than 2 hours. As residents [...]
For a long time the New Scientist has waged an ongoing battle with the climate change “skeptics”, and have produced some thorough articles such as “Climate change: a guide for the perplexed“, a round-up of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions. Time and time again I see people use similar myths [...]
The “Status of Caribbean coral reefs after bleaching and hurricanes in 2005” is an excellent account of the impact of mass bleaching and hurricanes that hit the Caribbean in 2005. As you will remember, sea temperatures rose sharply in this region in May 2005, intensifying until October by which time hotspots covered most [...]
Financial Post, 14th February 2008
Another subprime-mortgage-meltdown-sized risk could be looming for investors: global warming. That alarm was sounded Thursday at an investor summit at the United Nations headquarters, at which 480 investors, pension fund leaders and corporate executives from around the globe were warned that the vast majority of companies are ill-prepared for [...]
Climate report calls for 2008 commitment to target
The Age, 21st February 2008
Greens leader Bob Brown has described a report that urges action on global warming as “spot on” but says he is worried the Federal Government will back away from adopting its recommendations.
Economist Ross Garnaut’s interim report on climate [...]
Over-fishing and demand for shark fins, an expensive delicacy, have pushed one of the world’s iconic animals towards the brink of extinction, say experts.
The scalloped hammerhead shark is to be added to the official endangered species list this year, under the heading “globally endangered”.
Their plight [...]
EurekAlert, 14th February 2008
As vast and far-reaching as the world’s oceans are, every square kilometer is affected by human activities, according to a study in the journal Science by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and others.
The international team of scientists integrated global data [...]
One day late last year, Chris Simpson was looking at the waters off the coast of Western Australia on Google Earth when he made an unusual discovery.
Just west of the Kimberleys, a remote area in northern Western Australia, there was an extensive formation of fringing coral reefs [...]
I see over on “The Politics and Environment Blog” in response to the ocean thermostat study published recently that the following comment from the ill-informed Dr Peter Ridd’s diatribe “The Great Great Barrier Reef Swindle” is again being misconstrued as evidence that warmer waters will be beneficial for [...]
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