Coral reef conservation strategies now recognize climate change as a principal threat, and are engaged in efforts to allocate conservation activity according to geographic-, taxonomic-, and habitat-specific pri
And corals are useful to people , too. Without the protection which reefs afford from crashing waves, low-lying islands such as the Maldives would have flooded long ago, and a billion people would lose food or income. One team of economists has estimated that coral’s global ecosystem service...
As climate change drives more frequent extreme heat, this study reveals how global trade has intensified heat exposure for workers. Between 1995 and 2020, labour exposure to extreme heat rose by 89%, with many workers now spending nearly half their work hours in dangerous temperatures. ...
climate changecoral reef ecosystemsMarine protected areas (MPAs) provide place-based management of marine ecosystems through various degrees and types of protective actions. Habitats such as coral reefs are especially susceptible to degradation resulting from climate change, as evidenced by mass bleaching ...
Coral reefs make up a vast underwater ecosystem -- that most of us never see. An estimated one billion people worldwide benefit directly or indirectly from them and they're at risk from the continuing threats of climate change. But a team of U.S. scientists is seeing hope -- with the...
Climate change is expected to have profound, partly unforeseeable effects on the composition of functional traits of complex ecosystems, such as coral reefs, and some ecosystem properties are at risk of disappearing. This study applies a novel spatially explicit, individual-based model to explore thre...
Designer-Made Coral Reefs Could Survive Climate Change's Hot Seas Biologists are directing the evolution of corals to prepare them to fight climate change ByAmanda Mascarelli&Nature magazine Off the coast of American Samoa, the tropical sun beats down on a shallow tidal lagoon, heating the ...
Scientists reported that climate change might actually be helping ancient trees thrive(长得健壮). Now there seems to be more positive news-this time about the coral in our oceans whose population has been severely affected in last few decades by rising temperatures, disease and human carelessness....
Around the world coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are facing threats brought by climate change and great changes in sea temperatures. While ocean warming has been the primary focus for scientists and ocean policy managers, cold events can also whiten corals. A new study by scientists compared damage to ...
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