Coral bleaching, a deadly disease that strikes reefs when oceans heat up, has risen nearly five-fold since the 1980s, threatening the future of these vital ecosystems, researchers said Thursday.
Severe coral bleaching events used to happen once every 25 to 30 years. Now, they occur every six years on average, said the report in the journal Science.
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The number of debit memos created in 2016 will be virtually level with last year, ARC is projecting.
But the dollar value of those memos will decline.
ARC manager of settlement services Shelly Younger presented the projections, based upon the first nine months of 2016, on Thursday at ARC’s annual meeting here.
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‘Read,Dream, Create’is the theme of an array of interactions taking place at the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY)Corner at the eighth edition of Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival(SCRF), which is running from April 20-30 at Expo Centre Sharjah.
The Sharjah-based literary and cultural organisation is using its participation at the region’s leading book event for young people byRead more
Large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef will likely be dead by the mid 2030s as climate change drives the frequency and intensity of mass coral bleaching events, Aussie scientists warned on Friday.
Analysing the current mass bleaching event ravaging the Great Barrier Reef, researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Climate System Science found the effects of human-inducedRead more