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Ocean heat hits record high - UN
Ocean heat hit a record high in 2018, the United Nations said Thursday, raising urgent new concerns about the threat global warming is posing to marine life. In its latest State of the Climate overview, the World Meteorological ...
- March 30, 2019
Penguin future looks perkier with fishing ban
A ban on fishing around a colony of threatened penguins in South Africa has brought swift benefits to the beleaguered birds, marine biologists reported on Wednesday. The population of the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) ...
- February 11, 2010
How will climate change affect your livelihood?
Here, then, are a few scenarios for a climate-altered future, when rising temperatures are closing in on the threshold of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels which scientists warn we ...
- September 7, 2015
Climate-ravaged corals recover poorly-study
Paris – Coral reefs that survive rapid bleaching fuelled by global warming remain deeply damaged, with little prospect of full recovery, researchers said. Sixteen years after the 1998 El Niño ravaged coral in the Indian ...
- January 26, 2017
French President visiting 'Yolanda'-hit areas ahead of crucial climate talks
French President Francois Hollande will visit the typhoon-ravaged Philippines in February to build momentum for crucial climate change talks that France is hosting this year, his environment envoy said Friday. Hollande ...
- January 25, 2015
World's oceans are heating up at a quickening pace - study
The world’s oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science, ...
- January 12, 2019
Oceans heating faster than previously thought: Study
The word's oceans have absorbed more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change. Oceans over more than two thirds of the planet's ...
- November 25, 2018
Coral gardening beckons ecotourists to restore reefs
Coral reefs are fragile and in danger worldwide, but a growing movement to restore them is based on the science of breaking off pieces in order to grow more, known as coral gardening. It works like this: marine biologists ...
- July 9, 2015
Tahiti pearls endangered by climate change
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia’s economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines – in a small but exquisite way – what is at stake in the United ...
- November 26, 2015
US backs UN call to save oceans
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 ...
- June 11, 2017