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Showing posts with label blue carbon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue carbon. Show all posts
Thursday, April 20, 2017

The Great White shark, climate change and ocean carbon cycles

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The latest media 'hysteria' about shark attack arises from a tragic fatal bite incident when WA teenager Laeticia Brouwer was maule...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Seagrass carbon Storage - marine biosequestration could be important for negative emissions

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Updated 28 October. Blue carbon is part of the solution to tackle climate change. So why aren't we talking about it far more? Blue ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Guest Post: Stopping mangrove deforestation in Indonesia could help slow climate change

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Coastal wetlands are important carbon sinks, all too often ignored as important ecosystems for preserving and indeed fostering and growing...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Seagrass projected to drastically decline with sea level rise

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To most of us, what is hidden beneath the waves of our coastal environment remains invisible and is little thought about or cared about. Yet...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Coastal Wetlands under threat from Sea Level Rise says World Bank

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Climate change induced sea level rise of one metre is likely to destroy 60 per cent of the developing world's wetlands says a new World ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Planners need to allow for Coastal wetlands migration due to sea level rise, climate change

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Coastal Wetlands are under pressure. They face rising seas from climate change, but their biggest obstacle to migrate naturally inland is hu...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Mangrove forests threatened by Climate Change in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh and India

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A new study has found the Sundarban coast retreating up to 200 metres in a single year due to rapidly deteriorating health of the world'...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Seagrass meadows are key carbon sinks for combatting climate change

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May 22 is UNESCO's
 International Day for Biological Diversity which focussed strongly on conserving our marine diversity. One of the i...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Coastal ecosystems suffer 100 fold decrease in capacity to store carbon mitigating climate change

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The carbon sink capacity of urbanized river estuary and coastal environments to mitigate climate change has reduced by 100 fold according to...