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In Australia, to do our share, we really need to slash our emissions reductions by 75 % by 2030 and that is to hold global warming to less than 1.5 degrees which is the critical threshold for the survival of coral reef as we know it, we can create jobs, we can protect the reef, if we only embrace clean energy technology and stop all new coal and gas developments.

Campaigner Cherry Muddle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The early indications are that the mortality won’t be very high, we are hoping that we will see most of the coral that is bleached recover and we will end up with an event rather more like 2020 when, yes, there was mass bleaching, but there was low mortality.

David Wachenfeld

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If the water temperature decreases, bleached corals can recover from this stress. It is important to remember that we had a mass bleaching event in 2020, but there was very low coral mortality.

David Wachenfeld

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Though the species is quite abundant and therefore not currently at a high risk of overexploitation, it's still unsettling when a fish is already being commercialized before it even has a scientific name, it speaks to how much biodiversity there is still left to be described from coral reef ecosystems.

Luiz Rocha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What if it were your family member that needed the services and the closest officer to your emergency was tied up on his fictitious call? The Coral Springs Police Department takes this seriously. I'm personally offended by the waste of our resources.

Clyde Parry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

Terry Hughes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Then aligning his body with hers, maybe wrapping coils around her to hold her in place so he can position himself for copulation, but females often aren't interested, so they zoom away and hide in the coral.

Rick Shine

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once a fire occurs, what you’re doing is removing vegetation, and we often get heavy rainfall events. All of that exposed soil gets carried downstream and we have these direct impacts of erosion, sedimentation on our marine ecosystems. So it really hammers our coral reefs as well.

Clay Trauernicht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s within our control, potentially, to reduce the impacts that we’re seeing with fires, both in terms of forest loss as well as the impacts on coral reefs.

Clay Trauernicht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And just think, a solution to the next pandemic or human illness could be discovered from healthy coral reef.

Roger Germann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Conservation and saving wildlife from extinction is our foremost business focus and scientific breakthroughs that have a direct impact on protecting and restoring our natural environment is why we exist, healthy coral reefs are vital to the survival and quality of life of humans and animals, especially here in Florida Reef and throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. We believe it's our responsibility to save the Florida Reef Tract from disappearing.

Roger Germann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That's incredibly destructive. Those extreme temperatures can kill the coral very quickly, we really are on uncharted territory here in terms of rising temperatures.

Terry Hughes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The bright blue staghorn coral is ... fluorescing – another sign a coral is in distress.

Lyle Vail

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Were going to involve the community, really, in getting us to help basically garden the coral so that it can continue to grow and survive.

Andy Bruckner

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The coral will die, leaving just its skeleton behind, which eventually turns into limestone, then, in come the animals like starfishes and sea urchins; we call those grazers. So instead of a bunch of different species sharks, bony fishes, invertebrates and mollusks you end up with a reef with four to five species in it, tops. Thats a dead reef.

Toby Daly-Engel

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The cable is so practical, so important and so emblematic of the relationship between Australia and our key partners in the Pacific, the Coral Sea Cable will deliver for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands a connected future, Payne said, adding that the aim was for the cable to be operational by December. China denies using economic aid as political leverage, insisting it considers the ability of a country to repay loans when offering finance. In a bid to counter China, Australia has offered A$ 3 billion( $ 2.03 billion) in cheap loans and grants to the Pacific. The competition for influence in the Pacific has soured bilateral relations between Australia and China. The relationship came under further strain on Tuesday when China confirmed it has formally arrested a Chinese-born Australian writer on suspicion of espionage. Yang Hengjun, a former Chinese diplomat turned online journalist and blogger, was detained in January. Payne on Tuesday said Australia held grave concerns about Yang Hengjun and the.

Marise Payne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There are hundreds of colonies of coral that we need to relocate, one by one, delicately.

Assaf Habary

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs.

Stephen Simpson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is currently a lot of interest in creating more tolerant corals through genetic engineering and of restoring reefs by targeting more resilient corals, i fully support these approaches, but believe understanding what drives coral health will be key to their success.

Caroline Palmer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Essentially, what's happening is, two ingredients that are both safe and effective for use in sunscreen are being banned, essentially on the basis of a single study which claims that these ingredients harm coral reefs, this has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff.

Jay Sirois

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.

Craig Downs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff.

Jay Sirois

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and support fisheries by providing foraging habitats for adult fish and nursery habitats for juveniles, so they're really important biologically and economically.

John Burt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs might respond to climate change, these corals exist in hotter conditions than are projected for at least another century in places like Australias Great Barrier Reef and the Caribbean.

John Burt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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