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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Warm Unwelcome Seabirds suffer as climate change unravels North Sea food web	Audrey Schulman	25 Jan 2005	Main Dish
Guillemots are disappearing ... Photo: Dr. Brian Wilson, Centre for Bioscience ImageBank. On the south side of the isle of Shetland, off the coast of Scotland, there are more than 1,200 guillemot nests. Last spring, all of them were empty. No pear-shaped eggs, no downy chicks, no next generation of guillemots. Elsewhere on Shetland, the scene was even more disheartening: 24,00 ...
Topics: climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Turning Over an Old Reef Great Barrier Reef Is Doomed, Says Report Australia's Great Barrier Reef -- the world's largest chain of living coral and one of the seven wonders of the natural world -- will be almost completely destroyed by rising sea temperatures by 2050, predicts a new report released by Queensland University's Center for Marine Studies. "Coral c ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, international government agencies, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef In a major boon to Down Under ecology, fully one-third of the Great Barrier Reef will receive protection, the Australian government announced this week. The move will increase the protected areas of the reef by 40,000 square miles, thereby establishing the lar ...
Topics: Australia, climate, energy, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sound Off		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Off Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound is contaminated with dioxin, toxic metals, and PCBs (just for starters), all the result of industrial pollution. In turn, these nasties make their way into the sound's critters. Crabs are poisoned, while orca whales, salmon, and even some herring stocks are disappearing. The sound's be ...
Topics: climate, marine life, Northwest, oceans, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Great Burial Reef		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Great Burial Reef It's not a great time to be the Great Barrier Reef. When sea temperatures around the famed Australian landmark hit record highs early this year, 60 percent of the coral on the reef suffered from heat-related bleaching, according to marine scientists. Warm water temperatures caused the algae that live on the reef to leave, disrupting the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae and sometimes ...
Topics: Australia, climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

In an Octopus's Garden	Suzy Becker	07 Feb 2000	Ha.

Topics: climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

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