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The world’s coral reefs are undergoing a severe crisis, marked by the fourth global bleaching event on record—the second such event within the last decade. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), extensive coral bleaching has been documented globally from February 2023 to April 2024. This […]
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‘Should be a global wake-up call’: Coral reefs suffer fourth mass bleaching event
April 16th, 2024 
Awake Goy 
Posted in Climate Change, global warming 
Tags: bleaching, coral, fourth, global, reefs, should, suffer 
No Comments »Decade of Climate Breakdown Saw 14 per cent of Coral Reefs Vanish
October 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Reef fish and corals in the waters of the Seychelles archipelago. UNDP Between 2009 and 2018, the continuous rise in sea temperature cost the world 14 per cent of its coral reefs – that’s more than the size of Australia’s reefs combined – an UN-backed report revealed on Tuesday. In the Sixth Status of Corals of […]
Sunscreens destroy coral reefs by releasing harmful chemicals that disrupt microorganisms found in water
May 9th, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) Summer is a time for sun, sea, and surf. Now, it’s also becoming a time to harm corals and the marine life they protect. That’s because the sunscreen which tourists apply generously on their skin before getting into the beach has chemicals that harm the corals living thousands of feet below […]
Posted in World News Tags: chemicals, coral, destroy, harmful, reefs, releasing, sunscreens No Comments »Another danger for coral reefs: Plastic trash transports microorganisms that spread disease across the ocean floor
February 9th, 2018 Awake Goy (Natural News) The phrase “deep, blue sea” may slowly become a thing of the past, as more seas and oceans are being filled up with waste plastic. Its adverse effects have surely been felt by nearly all marine life, but a team of international researchers led by Cornell University has discovered one more unfortunate effect of plastic. They […]
Billions of pieces of plastic on coral reefs send disease soaring, research reveals
January 26th, 2018 Awake Goy Scientists examined 125,000 corals across the Asia-Pacific region, home to half the world’s reefs, and found 89% of those fouled by plastic were suffering disease. On plastic-free reefs, only 4% of the corals were diseased. The work is highly significant because it is the first to examine the impact of plastic on […]
Monsanto’s Glyphosate Linked to the Death of Our Oceans and Coral Reefs
June 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Alex Pietrowski, Staff WriterWaking Times Monsanto’s glyphosate, aka Roundup, is the most heavily used agricultural chemical in history, with some 3.5 billion plus gallons of the herbicide being used in the Unites States alone since its introduction in 1974. Worldwide use of glyphosate is rising fast, in spite of very legitimate concerns that the […]
Hawaii seeks to ban toxic chemical sunscreens to save the coral reefs from chemical decimation
May 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy (Natural News) Many snorkelers who are drawn to Hawaii’s coral reefs have noticed that they are not brimming with life the way they once did, and it looks like they only have themselves to blame. A lot of explanations have been put forth for coral die-offs, but one of the biggest culprits is the sunscreen […]
Hawaii Seeks a Ban on Chemical Sunscreens in Effort to Save Coral Reefs
May 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times Around the world ocean’s coral reefs are dying as a result of bleaching, water temperature increases, poor stewardship, vandalism, tourism, and pollution, and worldwide attention is needed to protect them. Now, in an effort to save coral reefs, Hawaii is making an effort to ban certain chemical sunscreens for […]
Eco Artists Build Gigantic Octopus To Save Coral Reefs In The British Virgin Islands
May 13th, 2017 Awake Goy In mid-April, a group of artists, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and locals gathered on the shore of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. They watched the Kodiak Queen, one of the surviving boats from the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, submerge beneath the water’s surface, eventually sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Four months prior, artist group Secret […]
Dallas Sniper: “I Did This Alone, I’m Not Affiliated With Any Groups”
July 9th, 2016 Awake Goy David Lee | Courthouse News Service DALLAS (CN) – Snipers killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven more at the end of a peaceful protest against police brutality Thursday night in what Mayor Mike Rawlings calls the city’s “worst nightmare.” Dallas Police Chief David Brown said it appeared […]
Posted in World News Tags: coral, glyphosate, killer, persists, reefs, roundup, seawater, threatens, Weed No Comments »US rejects request to halt Keystone XL review
November 5th, 2015 Awake Goy Supervolcanoes, massive eruptions with potential global consequences, appear not to follow the conventional volcano mechanics of internal pressure building until the volcano blows. Instead, a new study finds, such massive … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-halt-keystone-xl.html
