Browsing by Subject "coral bleaching"

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    • Massive coral bleaching hits Batangas waters 

      Cinco, Maricar (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 20, 2020, on page A10)
      Coral enthusiasts and marine conservationists on Friday raised the alarm over a “massive” coral bleaching going on across Calatagan town, Batangas province, and elsewhere on the western coast of the Philippines. The ...

    • 'More climate action for Coral Triangle' 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (Panay News, December 22, 2018, on page B8-B6)
      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 of marine biodiversity on Earth. Philippine ...

    • Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached 

      (SunStar Philippines, May 13, 2022, on page 9)
      More than 90 percent of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said. Bleaching ...

    • New Australian fish death 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, January 29, 2019, on page B3)
      Thousands more fish have died in a key river system in drought-hit eastern Australia just weeks after up to a million were killed, authorities and locals said Monday, sparking fears an ecological disaster is unfolding. ...

    • Ocean heat wave harming 12,000 sq-km of world's coral reefs - experts 

      Reuters (Manila Bulletin, October 9, 2015, on page 1-18)
      Corals reefs are suffering a severe underwater heat wave this year for the third time on record, including a mysterious warm patch in the Pacific known as “The Blob”, scientists said on Thursday. The bout of record high ...

    • The ocean is dying (1) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 22, 2017, on page 14)
      The alarming rise in the price of fish is linked to the alarming rise of ocean temperature, which killed the coral reefs in our oceans. Remove the corrals and you remove the marine creatures’ source of food, habitat, and ...

    • The ocean is dying (2) 

      Mercene, Floro (Manila Bulletin, May 26, 2017, on page 12)
      There were many factors that caused the death of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but among them were drilling for oil and mining and the death blow was global warming. The uncontrolled use of fossil fuels such as carbon, oil, ...

    • Ocean temperature hit record high in February 2024, EU scientists say 

      Reuters (BusinessWorld, March 8, 2024, on page S1/5)
      Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. ...

    • PH seeks more climate action for Coral Triangle 

      Philippine News Agency (PNA) (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 ...

    • Philippine coral reefs-in hot water 

      Jacinto, Nino (The Philippine Star, September 23, 2010, on page B-6-B-7)
      At first glance, coral simply looks like either a rock (if it is hard coral which has an outer skeleton made of limestone) or a plant (if it is soft coral which does not produce a limestone skeleton). But actually, coral ...

    • Philippine reef status calls for urgent attention 

      (BusinessWorld, January 19, 2018, on page S4/4)
      The Great Barrier Reef’s condition is worsening. Philippine coral reefs are bound to the same fate unless we do something about it. Urgent words and warnings. Is there a way to stop our oceans from warming? What can we ...

    • Pioneer Adhesives launches community, environmental efforts in Palawan 

      (Malaya, July 20, 2016, on page B7)
      Republic Chemical Industries Inc. (RCI), maker of Pioneer Epoxy, and its affiliate Pioneer Adhesive Foundation Inc. (PAFI), have recently conducted community relations and environmental efforts last July 15-17, 2016 in ...

    • Pristine ecosystem, a posh paradise: high-end adventure travel lures upscale Western tourists to El Nido, Palawan 

      Oiga, Jacky Lynne A. (Manila Bulletin, September 29, 2013, on page G-1)
      Rare marine life, endangered species, and undeveloped natural territories are luring more upscale tourists, mostly from the west, to El Nido, a world-renowned island destination and mange resource protected in Northern ...

    • Rare Tahiti coral reef 'like a work of art' 

      (Daily Tribune, January 30, 2022, on page B16)
      One of the largest coral reefs in the world has been discovered by a United Nation (UN)-supported scientific mission off the coast Tahiti. Announcing the stunning find UNESCO said drivers has explored large rose-shaped ...

    • Record coral kill-off on Great Barrier Reef 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, November 30, 2016, on page -C4)
      Sydney - A mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before, scientists said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the delicate ecosystem.

    • Reef Alert 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 9, 2016, on page A14)
      There is no way attention will be directed at the crying urgency of protecting the coral reefs unless we belabor the issue and repeat ourselves. At the rate coral reefs are being destroyed by human activity or damaged by ...

    • RP scientists note massive bleaching of coral reefs 

      Alave, Kristine L. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 6, 2010, on page A1-A22)
      For several months now, marine scientists and divers have been witnessing and recording the massive bleaching of coral reefs all over the country, which is being caused by warmer-than-normal ocean water temperatures. In ...

    • 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 ...

    • Save planet Earth but destroy the ocean? 

      Christiansen, Sabine; Unger, Sebastian (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 26, 2020, on page A7)
      As recent studies and assessments indicate, the world is still able to change course in the face of this threat, if major pressures—including climate change—are mitigated and marine ecosystems restored. But a new risk is ...

    • Scientists race to prevent wipeout of world's coral reefs 

      Associated Press (AP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 14, 2017, on page A6)
      Corals are invertebrates, living mostly in tropical waters. They secrete calcium carbonate to build protective skeletons that grow and take on impressive colors, thanks to a symbiotic relationship with algae that live in ...