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The Daily Climate, April 16, 2021
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Global warming’s extreme rains threaten Hawaii’s coral reefs
ABC News: Global warming’s extreme rains threaten Hawaii’s coral reefs. Recent flooding in Hawaii caused widespread and obvious damage.
As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaii’s steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious — houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered highways and raging rivers and streams were clogged with debris.
But extreme rain events predicted to become more common with human-caused global warming not only wreak havoc on land — the runoff from these increasingly severe storms also threatens Hawaii’s coral reefs.
“These big events are the ones that have the greatest damage because they are the ones that put the most sediment and nutrients out onto the reef,” said C. Mark Eakin, senior coral advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the former director of the agency’s Coral Reef Watch program.
Study: New Research Says Stony Corals Could Survive Climate Change Due to Their Human Bone-Like Structures
Martha Stewart: New Research Says Stony Corals Could Survive Climate Change Due to Their Human Bone-Like Structures. Rutgers University researchers found that proteins contribute to this process.
There’s good news coming out of the ocean! Rutgers University researchers discovered that certain types of coral—stony corals, specially—feature biominerals with a blend of proteins almost like human bones. Why is this important? That skeleton-like structure can actually help them withstand the effects of climate change. While the overall change in our planet’s climate and rising temperature continue to impact the the earth, in their study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, this team of scientists explain that certain types of coral are actually in less danger that previously thought due to this unique structure.
The Daily Climate, April 1,2021
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Then and now: Rising temperatures threaten corals
BBC News: Then and now: Rising temperatures threaten corals.
Coral reefs are hives of activity in the ocean, where many different species can be found. Scientists refer to such zones as biodiversity hotspots.
Although reefs take up less than 1% of the area covered by ocean, they are estimated to be home to more than a third of life under the waves.
The Daily Climate, April 2, 2021
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What’s Good for the Ocean May Also Be Good for Business
New York Times: What’s Good for the Ocean May Also Be Good for Business. Companies are trying to prove that conservation, sustainable fishing and carbon sequestration are profitable.
This article is part of our new series, Currents, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives.
Marty Odlin, who grew up and lives on the Maine coast, remembers what the ocean used to be like. But now, he said, “It’s like a desert and just within my lifetime.” In the last few years, he said, he has seen lots of sea grass and many other species virtually disappear from the shoreline.
Mr. Odlin, 39, comes from a fishing family and has a passion for the history of the ocean and the coast, both of which have informed his sense of the ocean’s decline, a small part of the catastrophic deletion of marine life over the last several hundred years.
THE TRUTH ABOUT ARTIFICIAL REEFS
Grunge: THE TRUTH ABOUT ARTIFICIAL REEFS.
The oceans are powerful places that affect our daily lives in more ways than we notice when we’re simply strolling through the years. They affect the climate and food production, they protect us from rising core temperatures that would destroy all life on the planet, and, of course, they provide a home to some of the coolest as well as most horrific-looking creatures on the planet. But, alas, humanity has been downright awful to the oceans. While the deep blue was providing us with routes to distant lands, we were dumping trash willy-nilly into her depths. When she fed us, we filled her with oil. We got greedy and overfished entire populations to near extinction. All in all, we’ve taken the oceans for granted, and we’re decimating their ecosystem.
Report: Great Barrier Reef found to be in failing health as world heritage review looms
The Guardian: Great Barrier Reef found to be in failing health as world heritage review looms. Reef water quality report card gives condition of marine environment a ‘D’ grade relative to earlier reports.
A government report card has found the marine environment along the Great Barrier Reef’s coastline remains in poor health, prompting conservationists to call for urgent action ahead of a world heritage committee meeting this year.
The reef water quality report card, released on Wednesday, said the health of corals and seagrass meadows in inshore areas had not improved, but water quality was slightly better than previous years.
Officials gave the condition of the marine environment in 2019 a “D” grade relative to reports covering 2017 and 2018.