okay so have to write a paper for college on 3 negative impacts on coral reefs and i was wondering if anyone had any good websites that may be able to help me out, basically i need 3 reasons i was thinking it would be easy to find but its not and the paper is due 2morrow ???
well, at least you didnt procrastinate ;D
i can give you a little secret that you may or may not know about. if you go to the google home page and click on advanced search you can scroll to the bottom and select scholarly search. this is where you will find material that is best suited for research papers and content you wont find with a regular google search. the only drawback is that a lot of the articles require either a subscription service or a pay per use fee. i know it might be obvious, but have you tried your school’s library?
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If you go through the schools library website you might find you have access to a lot of these. Bellamy may have some more insight into these.
“CO2 levels affecting coral reefs” over a million hits on basic google
Google “tire reefs” first hit reads “Tire reef off Florida proves a disaster”
“cruise ships damaging reefs”
I’ll come up with more. Should be easy. Is the problem that they are not reliable sources? Is the search more specific?
i try not to procrastinate Saint:) but i think one problem is that the deltech library sources are terrible it came up with “dont flush nemo down the toilet he wont make it back to his coral reef” boy i never knew that all the fish ive ever bought i flush down the toliet 2 set them free verdict_in
wow my hs has better reasources than that… if you had posted this a few days ago i could have emailed you some articles…
might be too late, however this is a link i’ve posted on RC.
it’s a study produced by the university of queensland highlighting the adverse effects of pollution on the indo-pacific region. it also gives projections and graphs the amount of CO2 the oceans are expected to be exposed . i think it’s probably already too late considering the massive amount of pollution we’ve expelled the past 120 years. humans have begun an uncontrolled experiment on the earth triggering a positive feedback loop of destruction.
another site where you can track the actual CO2 content of the earths atmospehere in real time is:
very disparaging, considering you can clearly see that the earth doesn’t have very much to go until we get to the extinction point of 750ppm
Ocean acidification and global oceanic warming are both results of CO2 rise due to burning fossil fuels and other GHGs.
Mercury emissions from coal burning power plants are making sea food toxic.
Nutrient runoff creating anoxic dead zones at river deltas around the world.
transport of invasive aquatic species via commerce and dumping of cargo ship ballast water around the world.
over fishing.
Shark finning.
trawl netting destroying deep water reefs and habitat.
the list goes on…
its a bit worse than just freeing Nemo.