Scientific American, 17th July
As San Diego and Los Angeles have grown, the scrub land of southern California has been paved and built over. That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly’s habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species [...]
The Telegraph, 10th July
One third of the major reef-building coral species are vulnerable to extinction, and the pace of destruction is increasing so it is conceivable that the "rainforests of the ocean" could be wiped out this century.
The warning that coral communities are faring even worse than their terrestrial counterparts, notably [...]
Coral Reef News – SeaWeb, July 10th 2008
So, the final, dying embers of the conference to rake over. Dick Dodge kicks things off by saying what a diverse bunch of topics we’ve covered. This symposium has been one of synthesis, he says. Here’s how we’re going to do things over the next [...]
Food supplies will run short, tourism will be hit and coastal communities affected as the world’s coral reefs gradually decline under climate change, scientists say.
The reefs already were dying at an increasing rate because of global warming and acidification of the oceans, said researchers meeting this week [...]
The Federal Government has released a report into the link between drought and climate change, which it says will trigger major review of drought policy.
The report is by the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO and is the first of three commissioned by the Government.
The report warns [...]
ABC News, 5th July
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says it accepts the findings of the Garnaut report on the impact of climate change on the reef.
The report found if carbon emissions are not reduced, the reef could die within decades.
The Authority’s Russel Reichelt says [...]
Main points of the Garnaut Report (from The Australian, 4th July 2008)
• By 2050, unmitigated climate change on middle of the road outcomes would mean major declines in agricultural production across much of the country, including a 50 per cent reduction in irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin.• By 2100, irrigated [...]
TAX cuts and welfare reform should be offered to dampen the impact of a new emissions trading scheme, according to the landmark Garnaut climate change report released today.
Kevin Rudd’s chief climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, has today urged the Government to pass on the lion’s share of revenue [...]
Our lab are off to the ICRS Symposium in Ft Lauderdale, Florida – the worlds largest gathering of coral reef scientists – over 2,500 presentations from 114 different countries in 5 days! I will be writing with updates from the conference over the next week:
USNewswire, 17th June
The world’s [...]
These amazing pictures are from the Yucatan Peninsula off the Gulf of Mexico, where golden rays flock before undergo a biannual mass migration. See more of the stunning pictures of these near threatened rays (upto 2m in size) here.
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