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08-19-2016, 01:53 AM
Climate activists blame Exxon Mobil for largest coral bleaching event on record
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The ocean became a crime scene this week after environmental activists ensnared dead and bleached coral in yellow police tape.*
Divers affiliated with the climate advocacy organization 350.org cordoned off colonies of sickly coral near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Somoa and the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman Islands.*
Huge swaths of coral in those areas are struggling to survive as ocean temperatures rise, in part because of global warming.
SEE ALSO: Watch how coral bleaching happens in warming waters (http://mashable.com/2016/08/15/coral-bleaching-video-australia/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The culprit for the crime, activists claimed (http://350.org/press-release/exxon-killed-the-reef/), is U.S. oil and gas producer Exxon Mobil.*
The Texas-based energy giant is facing criticism (http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/attorneys-general-exxon-global-warming/) for funding climate denying think tanks in recent decades — a move critics say created public confusion about the realities of climate change and thwarted global efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/exxonknew-coral-bleaching-protests/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Great Barrier Reef (http://mashable.com/category/great-barrier-reef/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coral Bleaching (http://mashable.com/category/coral-bleaching/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coral Reefs (http://mashable.com/category/coral-reefs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Climate Change (http://mashable.com/category/climate-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/CQDtX62W7ls
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The ocean became a crime scene this week after environmental activists ensnared dead and bleached coral in yellow police tape.*
Divers affiliated with the climate advocacy organization 350.org cordoned off colonies of sickly coral near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Somoa and the Bay of Bengal’s Andaman Islands.*
Huge swaths of coral in those areas are struggling to survive as ocean temperatures rise, in part because of global warming.
SEE ALSO: Watch how coral bleaching happens in warming waters (http://mashable.com/2016/08/15/coral-bleaching-video-australia/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The culprit for the crime, activists claimed (http://350.org/press-release/exxon-killed-the-reef/), is U.S. oil and gas producer Exxon Mobil.*
The Texas-based energy giant is facing criticism (http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/attorneys-general-exxon-global-warming/) for funding climate denying think tanks in recent decades — a move critics say created public confusion about the realities of climate change and thwarted global efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/exxonknew-coral-bleaching-protests/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Great Barrier Reef (http://mashable.com/category/great-barrier-reef/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coral Bleaching (http://mashable.com/category/coral-bleaching/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Coral Reefs (http://mashable.com/category/coral-reefs/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Climate Change (http://mashable.com/category/climate-change/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/CQDtX62W7ls