Pacific Coral Killed By Warmer Oceans
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A new El Niño developing in the Pacific is expected to produce mild to moderate effects. Combined with global warming, however, it doesn’t need to be much of an El Niño to start having dramatic effects (the one in ‘98 is estimated to have cost USD 30 billion).
Massive coral bleaching strikes Great Barrier ReefNew Scientist
An epidemic of coral bleaching has hit the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the world’s largest coral reef, for the second time in four years. It is also reported to be spreading through the coral islands of the South Pacific.
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It will take a long time before we have full confirmation of the magnitude of the disaster," he* said. "But when it is all in, I predict we will have confirmation that almost all corals across the entire South Pacific have died in the last few months."
* Thomas Goreau, president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance
Interesting comment from the last paragraph of the article: Goreau says: “Catastrophic mortality will certainly have taken place.” He claims the Australian government is reluctant to discuss the extent of bleaching on the reef because of its ambivalence about action on global warming.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2002.04.13 (Sat) • 00:36
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Posted by James 2002.04.04, 05:29
I second the emotion. I think the blocky look introduced the perfect amount of contrast at such small size.
Desiging icons old style always felt like Haiku to me. Elements reduced to thier most basic building blocks.
Does this make us old school?
Posted by jh 2002.04.09, 11:50
Proudly old school, I’d say. ;-)
Posted by Darrel 2002.04.11, 01:24
There is a bigger issue as well with general usability.
The idea behind a well-crafted icon is that it is easy to interpret. Many of the ‘icons’ in OSX aren’t really icons…they’re complex illustrations/photos. It’s much more mentally intensive to interpret this type of information on a computer screen than simple icons.
Icons, due to their simplicity, also allow for easy differentation (macromedia products are circles, adobe products are square, Microsoft products are initials, etc…) The new OSX images, due to there complexity, tend to blend together in terms of fine detail.
Posted by Erik Gauger 2005.11.12, 02:35
Hi Folks, here is something you may be interested in for your blog. Its about a small island in the Bahamas that is fighting over the fate of their coral reef against a mega-developer who wants to build a giant marina and golf course:
http://www.notesfromtheroad.com/WestIndies/bakersbayintro.htm
Thanks! Erik
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