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22/05/2021 Coral bleaching at Heron Island, February 2016. Photo: stopadani/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 While coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific region have been bleaching in response to rising sea temperatures, the reefs around Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands have mostly kept their color. But in March 2021, that all changed: the lagoon’s once-healthy reefs turned ghostly white as the water temperature rose to new highs, much to the distress of conservationists. Coral bleaching –...

Spotting coral bleaching from space First global satellite network is now scanning coral reefs in real-time. The Allen Coral Atlas Monitoring System, New Caledonia on April 26, 2021. A world-first space-based coral reef monitoring project has just got off the ground – literally. The Allen Coral Atlas project is now using high-resolution satellites to scan nearly a quarter of a million reefs across the globe – from space – to monitor coral-killing bleaching events in real-time. “The curr...

While coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific region have been bleaching in response to rising sea temperatures, the reefs around Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands have mostly kept their color. But in March 2021, that all changed: the lagoon’s once-healthy reefs turned ghostly white as the water temperature rose to new highs, much to the […]

Planned NASA satellites will measure the vertical motions that lead to towering storm clouds. SANTIAGO BORJA NASA’s new fleet of satellites will offer insights into the wild cards of climate change May. 5, 2021 , 11:15 AM NASA is about to announce its next generation of Earth-observing satellites. As soon as this month, it will lay out preliminary plans for a multibillion-dollar set of missions that will launch later this decade. This “Earth system observatory,” as NASA calls it, ...

Global warmings extreme rains threaten Hawaiis coral reefs Coral reefs make up much of Hawaiis nearshore ocean ecosystem and are critical to the states economy Author: Apr 30, 2021 Caleb Jones Associated Press HONOLULU — As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaiis steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious — houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered highways and raging rivers and streams were clogged ...

André Hoffmann, from the family behind Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, says he’s been pushing for environmental sustainability in business for a quarter of a century now. Throughout a career that has also seen him serve as vice president of WWF, Hoffmann says he’s been bothered by the business-as-usual principle of making money first and thinking about nature afterward. “If you destroy nature to make a profit then you are creating the problem that you then try to solve with philanthrop...

National News Apr 16, 2021 HONOLULU (AP) — As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaii’s steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious — houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered highways and raging rivers and streams were clogged with debris. But extreme rain events predicted to become more common with human-caused global warming not only wreak havoc on land — the runoff from these increasingly sever...

Caleb Jones April 15, 2021 - 10:37 AM HONOLULU - As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaiis steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious — houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered highways and raging rivers and streams were clogged with debris. But extreme rain events predicted to become more common with human-caused global warming not only wreak havoc on land — the r...

Share Oil and gas producers burn off methane to prevent it from escaping. New satellites will look for leaks.  LanaMais/iStock California to hunt greenhouse gas leaks and super-emitters with monitoring satellites Apr. 15, 2021 , 8:00 AM In December 2016, soon after advisers to President Donald Trump threatened to shut off NASA’s climate-observing satellites, California Governor Jerry Brown made a famous promise: "If Trump turns off the satellites,” he said while addressing a geo...

HONOLULU —  As muddy rainwater surged from Hawaii’s steep seaside mountains and inundated residential communities last month, the damage caused by flooding was obvious — houses were destroyed and businesses swamped, landslides covered highways and raging rivers and streams were clogged with debris. But extreme rain events predicted to become more common with human-caused global warming not only wreak havoc on land — the runoff from these increasingly severe storms also threatens Hawa...