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Australia’s Other Great Reef Is Also Screwed


While the world panics about the Great Barrier Reef, an even larger and more valuable habitat is collapsing under our noses.

Jul 7, 2016
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/australias-other-great-reef-is-also-screwed/490121/ [with comments[, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clWCpejKrEc [embedded; with comments] [study at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6295/169 ]


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Australia's vast kelp forests devastated by marine heatwave, study reveals

The giant kelp forests are part of the Great Southern Reef – a global biodiversity hotspot, with up to 30% of species endemic.
About 90% of forests off the western coast were wiped out between 2011 and 2013, posing a threat to biodiversity and the marine economy, say scientists
7 July 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/07/australias-vast-kelp-forests-devastated-by-marine-heatwave-study-reveals [with comments] [same study]


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The world’s clouds are in different places than they were 30 years ago

Locations where the majority of climate models and the majority of satellite records agree on how cloudiness changed from the 1980s to the 2000s, relative to the global mean change.
July 11, 2016
In a new study [ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18273.html ] published in Nature on Monday, scientists say they have for the first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by a warming climate: The distribution of clouds all across the Earth has shifted, they say.
And moreover, it has shifted in such a way — by expanding subtropical dry zones, located between around 20 and 30 degrees latitude in both hemispheres, and by raising cloud tops — as to make global warming worse.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/07/11/the-worlds-clouds-are-in-different-places-than-they-were-30-years-ago/ [with comments]


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