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Showing posts with label coasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coasts. Show all posts
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 ...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Guest Post: Reversal of sea level rise co-ordinated planning increasing risk to Australian coastal development

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Sea level rise is perhaps one of the greatest perils of climate change over the long term according to Dr Peter Ward. The rate of rise will...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Guest Post: Philippines steps up restoration of mangroves as defence against typhoons, tsunamis, sea level rise

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Coastal ecosystems are important for providing a range of services that tend to be taken for granted, even ignored as coastal development is...
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, June 23, 2012

California coast to be hit hard by sea level rise with climate change

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A US National Research Council report released June 22 concluded that average global sea level is likely to rise two to three times higher w...
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...