[Coral-List] Great Barrier Reef has declined by half

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 19:15:20 UTC 2020


Great Barrier Reef has lost half its corals since 1995

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54533971

Long term shifts in the colony size structure of the coral populations
along the Great Barrier Reef
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1432

Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1898

Cheers,  Doug

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Douglas Fenner
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NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

“Don't think of it as the warmest month of August in California in the last
century. Think of it as one of the coolest months of August in California
in the next century.”
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=38d5d14948&e=190a62d266>

The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9f70ba54f&e=190a62d266>
—
even if climate change didn’t exist.  In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone.  And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


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