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The Oceans Can’t Protect Us Anymore—Here’s Why

A local fisherman and his son travel in a traditional outrigger canoe above a coral reef in Papua New Guinea's Kimbe Bay. Almost all coral reefs may experience bleaching by 2050, the new report says.
Our waters have borne the brunt of global warming for decades, but dying corals, extreme weather, and plummeting fish stocks are signs that it can handle no more.
September 5, 2016
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/oceans-warming-global-environment-climate/ [with comments]


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Mega-study on oceans predicts super-storms, massive life loss

Gentoo penguins stand on rocks near the Chilean station Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctica, January 22, 2015.
Fish and marine mammals are already moving north as sea temperature rises: 'We were astounded by the scale of ocean warming effects on entire ecosystems,' scientists write.
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Sep 05, 2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/science/1.740393 [no comments yet]


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Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation'

The scale of warming in the ocean is ‘truly staggering’, the report warns.
IUCN report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease
5 September 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/soaring-ocean-temperature-is-greatest-hidden-challenge-of-our-generation [with comments]


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Latest ocean warming review reveals extent of impacts on nature and humans

Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks and crop yields, more extreme weather events and increased risk from water-borne diseases, according to what has been called the most comprehensive review available on the issue, launched today by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai‘i.
05 Sep 2016
https://www.iucn.org/news/latest-ocean-warming-review-reveals-extent-impacts-nature-and-humans

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
September 2016
https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2016-046_0.pdf


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The oceans are heating up. That's a big problem on a blue planet

‘We see the effects of warming on land: the floods, the droughts, the refugees headed towards temporary safety.’
An increase in water temperatures is having a profound effect that, with hidden stores of frozen methane thawing out, will soon start to feed on itself
Bill McKibben
7 September 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/07/oceans-heating-big-problem-blue-planet-iucn-report [with comments]


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The World Is Unprepared For The "Truly Staggering" Warming Of The Oceans
Fisheries and corals are in grave danger, hurricanes are increasing, and toxic algae blooms are on the rise. The world is ignoring the oceans at its peril.
09.07.16
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063455/the-world-is-unprepared-for-the-truly-staggering-warming-of-the-oceans


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IUCN report reveals impacts of ocean acidification on fish

Ocean acidification effects on marine life.
September 07, 2016
http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=&day=7&id=86846


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Another study points to rapidly rising ocean temperatures

Holidays makers swim to cool off in the Atlantic Ocean as warm summer temperatures continue in Montalivet, France, August 24, 2016.
A new report shows that the ocean, which has been absorbing the effects of climate change, is reaching a breaking point
September 7, 2016
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0907/Another-study-points-to-rapidly-rising-ocean-temperatures


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IUCN World Congress Signals New Direction For Conservation

The 2016 World Conservation Congress in Honolulu is the largest gathering of environmental policymakers and advocates in the IUCN's history.
Urgency of climate change and environmental degradation requires novel mindset to protect water, forests, and oceans.
September 7, 2016
http://www.circleofblue.org/2016/water-management/conservation-environmental-restoration/iucn-world-congress-signals-new-direction-conservation/ [no comments yet]


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