Browsing by Subject "acidification"
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New marine parks named at Chile sea summit
(The Manila Times,October 6, 2015 , on page C4)The United States and partner countries were to announce new marine reserves on Monday at the start of a major conference in Chile on protecting the world's oceans. Chile is hosting the Our Ocean conference in the picturesque ... -
Oceans under threat
(The Philippine Star,April 4, 2019 , on page 11)The oceans are still full of life, but they are also sick and it is getting worse every year. Climate change and increasing acidification are contributing to the destruction of corrals reefs in tropical waters all over the ... -
PH seeks more climate action for Coral Triangle
(The Manila Times,December 20, 2018 , on page B5)The Philippines sees the need for more international climate action that will better protect the 6- million-square-kilometer coral triangle, the marine area experts cited as center marine biodiversity on earth. Environment ... -
Pollution causes algal bloom
(Panay News,May 26, 2015 , on page 5-15)An Aklanon government scientist insisted that pollution is the main cause of the algal bloom in this island resort. Raymund Jacinto Sucgang, a researcher for the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute of the Department of ... -
Save our oceans
(Panay News,May 19, 2018 , on page 8)Oceans have absorbed about a third of global carbon dioxide emissions, causing acidification. This has also resulted in coral bleaching. Ocean acidification is causing irreversible damage to coral reefs. With global warming ... -
Science points to the sea as new source of global warming
(The Manila Times,August 27, 2013 , on page B7)Ocean that grow more acidic through man's fossil fuel burning emissions, can amplify global warming by releasing less of a gas that helps shield Earth from radiation, study said on Sunday (Monday in Manila). And the authors ... -
Scientists probe deep sea secrets
(Malaya,October 19, 2012 , on page A1)New facts about marine life are enabling scientists to locate some of the oceans's most ecologically and biologically significant areas in the planet's most remote places. For the first time, the world ocean, including its ... -
Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
(The Manila Times,October 9, 2014 , on page B6)Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two ... -
Scientists tinker with evolution to save Hawaii coral reefs
(Manila Bulletin,November 12, 2015 , on page B8)Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that they hope can withstand the hotter and more acidic oceans that are expected with global warming. The quest ... -
Storms to starfish: Great Barrier Reefs faces rapid coral loss
(BusinessWorld,October 5, 2012 , on page S3/9)The world's largest coral reef - under threat from Australia's surging coal and gas shipments, climate change and a destructive starfish - is declining faster than ever and coral cover could fall to just 5% in the next ... -
UN chief: save the oceans to avert 'global catastrophe'
(BusinessWorld,June 16, 2017 , on page S3/6)UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to put aside national gain to save the oceans and avert a "global catastrophe" as he opened the first UN ocean conference. The five-day meeting is the first ... -
US backs UN call to save oceans
(Manila Bulletin,June 11, 2017 , on page 1-6)The United States (US) on Friday joined all 192 other United Nations (UN) member states in releasing a “Call to Action” to save the oceans but disassociated itself from joint efforts to combat climate change. The declaration ... -
Volcanic island may hold key to coral survival
(Manila Standard,April 18, 2017 , on page C4)Tara, Japan – The key to the survival of the world’s threatened coral reefs may lie in the waters surrounding a small volcanic island off the coast of Japan, scientists say. The seabed of Shikine Island is a “living ... -
Whales under threat as climate change impacts migration
(BusinessWorld,December 4, 2015 , on page S3/4)The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature's most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ... -
Whales under threat as climate change impacts migration
(Manila Bulletin,December 12, 2015 , on page 12)The sight of thousands of whales surfacing, jumping and playing off the coast of South America as they migrate toward their breeding grounds is one of nature’s most majestic displays. But global warming is killing off their ... -
What happens in the oceans affects us all
(Philippine Daily Inquirer,April 29, 2016 , on page A17)If we are merely looking at the vast expanse of waters from the shores of Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, or living in the landlocked Lao People’s Democratic Republic, we will tend to think that oceans ...