Category: Oceans

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Shows Record Devastation

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This clip from Al Jazeera covers new aerial surveys of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, reflecting the most widespread and severe bleaching the coral reef has experienced.

The damage follows record high temperatures in February. James Cook University scientists issued a dire warning about the threat posed by climate change to the world’s largest living organism. They say temperatures over the next month are critical to how the reef recovers.

Let’s hope this Covid-19 worldwide slow down helps the reef recover quickly.

Team Visits Thwaites Glacier

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The Thwaites Glacier, also referred to as the Doomsday Glacier, is closely watched for its potential to raise sea levels. Along with Pine Island Glacier, it is part of the “weak underbelly” of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, due to vulnerability. This hypothesis is based on both theoretical studies of the stability of marine ice sheets and observations of large changes on these two glaciers. In recent years, both glaciers have retreated and melted at an alarming rate.

For years, scientists have watched the Thwaites Glacier from a distance, but in November 2019, a team set out to investigate what is happening below.

Turning Plastic Into Robes

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Buddhist monks in Thailand are recycling plastic bottles into robes. Thailand is a major contributor to plastic pollution. Thailand along with China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka generate up to 60% of plastic pollution in oceans. At the Wat Chak Daeng Buddhist temple located south of Bangkok, the abbot Phra Maha Pranom Dhammalangkaro is spearheading a project to recycle plastic bottles into the fabric for colored robes for monks.

“Don’t think that the waste problem can’t be solved. Buddha taught us that there is always a solution to every problem.”

—Phra Maha Pranom Dhammalangkaro, Deputy Abbot of the Wat Chak Daeng Temple