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Cove director’s new doc warns of impending ecological catastrophe
Posted by Guardian: Johnny Langenheim on December 2nd, 2015
Guardian: In early 2014, a story made headlines around the world. At a factory in Wenxhou, southeast China owned by a Mr Li, whale sharks were being slaughtered in their hundreds, their various constituent parts distributed for food, medicine and cosmetics not just in China, but in the west too.
Footage of an undercover sting in the factory is among the most viscerally shocking sequences in Racing Extinction, which airs tonight on the Discovery Channel in the UK. The new documentary by Louis Psihoyos, director...
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El Niño Could Spell Disaster for Coral Reefs
Posted by Guardian: Johnny Langenheim on June 8th, 2014
Guardian: A growing number of scientists are predicting a major El Niño weather event this year, which could wreak havoc across South America and Asia as droughts, floods and other extreme weather events hit industry and farming. But the impacts on the world's coral reefs could be even more disastrous.
The last big El Niño in 1997/98 caused the worst coral bleaching in recorded history. In total, 16 percent of the world's coral was lost and some countries like the Maldives lost up to 90 percent of their...