http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-10/unprecedented-10000-hectares-of-mangroves-die/7552968

This concerns me , realising mangrove forests serve as nurseries for sea life and play important roles and therefore the death of the mangroves IMO is concerning.

PHOTO: The scale of the mangrove death is considered unprecedented. (Bluebottle Films: James Sherwood)
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MAP: NT
Close to 10,000 hectares of mangroves have died across a stretch of coastline reaching from Queensland to the Northern Territory.

Key points:

A mangrove expert says it is the most extreme “dieback” he has ever seen
The mangrove death occurred across a 700km stretch of NT and QLD
An expert believes it is linked to climate change
International mangroves expert Dr Norm Duke said he had no doubt the “dieback” was related to climate change.

monkey skipper said:

PHOTO: The scale of the mangrove death is considered unprecedented. (Bluebottle Films: James Sherwood)
RELATED STORY: Parts of Great Barrier Reef increasing in coral: surveyRELATED STORY: Dramatic images show bleached coral covered in slime
MAP: NT
Close to 10,000 hectares of mangroves have died across a stretch of coastline reaching from Queensland to the Northern Territory.

Key points:

A mangrove expert says it is the most extreme “dieback” he has ever seen
The mangrove death occurred across a 700km stretch of NT and QLD
An expert believes it is linked to climate change
International mangroves expert Dr Norm Duke said he had no doubt the “dieback” was related to climate change.

Trees everywhere are dying back from climate change.. er the trees that haven’t been slashed and burned, that is.

This is happening from the snow lines to the tropical mangrove.

STOP IT YOU FUCKHEADS,

> mangrove forests serve as nurseries for sea life

So does the great Pacific garbage dump.

mollwollfumble said:

> mangrove forests serve as nurseries for sea life

So does the great Pacific garbage dump.

Where the plastics collect…is that where you meant?

This is really terrible and something I had not contemplated. However when you consider reduced rainfall and hot highly saline seawater washing around these plants, their death is the obvious outcome.

I am reminded of the northern pine forests dying back due to a beetle boring into their trunks and killing them. Previously the cold winters would kill these beetles, but now with warmer weather they are surviving.

The problem is not just the death of these plants but all the organisms that relied upon them. This is how the world changes and mass extinctions happen.

PermeateFree said:

This is really terrible and something I had not contemplated. However when you consider reduced rainfall and hot highly saline seawater washing around these plants, their death is the obvious outcome.

I am reminded of the northern pine forests dying back due to a beetle boring into their trunks and killing them. Previously the cold winters would kill these beetles, but now with warmer weather they are surviving.

The problem is not just the death of these plants but all the organisms that relied upon them. This is how the world changes and mass extinctions happen.

Currently we are the species that has been changing the world to suit ourselves without realising that these changes are polluting ou air and water and forcing our food to go extinct.

the fact is things are going to get worse i’m afraid, its the rule of the idiot that wins out

remember 2008 and the GFC and the government told us they were going to give us 900 dollars each?

at the time i was openly saying on the sssf we should use that money to build renewable energy systems

if they had done that then we’d have the cheapest electrical power in the world

don’t worry about the destruction because it is natural, we naturally destroy everything, its common for animals that have bred beyond their intelligence and food source

monkey skipper said:

mollwollfumble said:

> mangrove forests serve as nurseries for sea life

So does the great Pacific garbage dump.

Where the plastics collect…is that where you meant?

Some of the garbage that has washed up on the shores of islands has been useful to Bear Grylls’ survivalists.

wookiemeister said:

don’t worry about the destruction because it is natural, we naturally destroy everything, its common for animals that have bred beyond their intelligence and food source

So global warming caused by our activities is normal? I don’t think so!

PermeateFree said:

wookiemeister said:

don’t worry about the destruction because it is natural, we naturally destroy everything, its common for animals that have bred beyond their intelligence and food source

So global warming caused by our activities is normal? I don’t think so!

An activities by any animal on this planet or in the universe is normal.

Just saw the ABC news report. The researcher said he’d never seen anything like this. Which is not the same as what the voiceover was saying about it being unprecedented. It’s just that this bloke hasn’t seen it before. Which I see is what is said at the top of this thread. It’s apparently in a very remote place. Maybe no-one has looked before. Maybe it has happened before the last 200 years. Unprecedented is a very big word.

Peak Warming Man said:

PermeateFree said:

wookiemeister said:

don’t worry about the destruction because it is natural, we naturally destroy everything, its common for animals that have bred beyond their intelligence and food source

So global warming caused by our activities is normal? I don’t think so!

An activities by any animal on this planet or in the universe is normal.

As we have been the main instigator of Global Warming, but it was not our intention to be so, then the resulting consequences are abnormal to what was expected or there before. The destruction of the mangrove due to global warming was also not expected, therefore it cannot be regarded as normal. The death of the mangroves is an abnormal event.