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యుఏఈకి చెందిన కోచ్ ఇర్ఫాన్ అన్సారీ అవినీతి నిరోధక నిబంధనలను ఉల్లంఘించి మూడు నేరాలకు పాల్పడినట్లు ఐసీసీ అవినీతి నిరోధక ట్రైబ్యునల్ పేర్కొంది.
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Published : Feb 20, 2019, 7:59 PM IST
అన్సారీ
యూఏఈకి చెందిన కోచ్ ఇర్ఫాన్ అన్సారీపై అంతర్జాతీయ క్రికెట్ సమాఖ్య(ఐసీసీ) పదేళ్లపాటు నిషేధం విధించింది. 2017లో పాకిస్థాన్ కెప్టెన్ సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ నుంచి రహస్య సమచారాన్ని పొందేందుకు ప్రయత్నించిన నేరంలో దోషిగా తేల్చింది.అవినీతి నిరోధక కోడ్ని ఉల్లంఘించి మూడు నేరాలకు పాల్పడినట్లు ఐసీసీ అవినీతి వ్యతిరేక ట్రైబ్యునల్ తెలిపింది.
"ఈ కేసులో సహకరించిన సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్కు ధన్యవాదాలు తెలుపుతున్నాం. అన్సారీ తనతో చెప్పిన విషయాలపై ఐసీసీకి ఫిర్యాదు చేసి తన వృత్తి ధర్మాన్ని చాటుకున్నాడు. అన్సారీ విచారణ సమయంలో తన ఫోన్ ఇచ్చేందుకు కూడా నిరాకరించాడు. నిబంధనలకు అనుగుణంగా విచారణకు సహకరించలేదంటే కేసు తీవ్రత తెలుస్తోంది" అని ఐసీసీ జనరల్ మేనేజర్ అలెక్స్ మార్షల్ తెలిపారు.
అక్టోబర్ 2017లో పాకిస్థాన్- శ్రీలంక సిరీస్ జరుగుతున్న సమయంలో అన్సారీ కెప్టెన్ సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ని కలిశాడు. జట్టుకు సంబంధించిన రహస్య సమాచారాన్ని సర్ఫారజ్ నుంచి పొందేందుకు ప్రయత్నించాడని అలెక్స్ తెలిపారు.
అన్సారీ షార్జా క్రికెట్ కౌన్సిల్లో 30ఏళ్ల నుంచి పనిచేస్తున్నాడు. షార్జా క్రికెట్ క్లబ్కు హెడ్ కోచ్గా వ్యవహరిస్తున్నాడు.
యూఏఈకి చెందిన కోచ్ ఇర్ఫాన్ అన్సారీపై అంతర్జాతీయ క్రికెట్ సమాఖ్య(ఐసీసీ) పదేళ్లపాటు నిషేధం విధించింది. 2017లో పాకిస్థాన్ కెప్టెన్ సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ నుంచి రహస్య సమచారాన్ని పొందేందుకు ప్రయత్నించిన నేరంలో దోషిగా తేల్చింది.అవినీతి నిరోధక కోడ్ని ఉల్లంఘించి మూడు నేరాలకు పాల్పడినట్లు ఐసీసీ అవినీతి వ్యతిరేక ట్రైబ్యునల్ తెలిపింది.
"ఈ కేసులో సహకరించిన సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్కు ధన్యవాదాలు తెలుపుతున్నాం. అన్సారీ తనతో చెప్పిన విషయాలపై ఐసీసీకి ఫిర్యాదు చేసి తన వృత్తి ధర్మాన్ని చాటుకున్నాడు. అన్సారీ విచారణ సమయంలో తన ఫోన్ ఇచ్చేందుకు కూడా నిరాకరించాడు. నిబంధనలకు అనుగుణంగా విచారణకు సహకరించలేదంటే కేసు తీవ్రత తెలుస్తోంది" అని ఐసీసీ జనరల్ మేనేజర్ అలెక్స్ మార్షల్ తెలిపారు.
అక్టోబర్ 2017లో పాకిస్థాన్- శ్రీలంక సిరీస్ జరుగుతున్న సమయంలో అన్సారీ కెప్టెన్ సర్ఫరాజ్ అహ్మద్ని కలిశాడు. జట్టుకు సంబంధించిన రహస్య సమాచారాన్ని సర్ఫారజ్ నుంచి పొందేందుకు ప్రయత్నించాడని అలెక్స్ తెలిపారు.
అన్సారీ షార్జా క్రికెట్ కౌన్సిల్లో 30ఏళ్ల నుంచి పనిచేస్తున్నాడు. షార్జా క్రికెట్ క్లబ్కు హెడ్ కోచ్గా వ్యవహరిస్తున్నాడు.
ISRAEL CORAL REEFS
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Eilat, Southern Israel - 2018
1. Diver underwater with fish and corals
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Eilat, Israel - 11 February 2019
2. Pan of from sea to shoreline with coral underwater
3. Aerial shot of shore +MUTE+
4. Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University scuba diving underwater
5. Various of corals underwater from observatory windows
6. Professor Fine testing temperature of coral tanks
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University:
"Here in the Gulf of Aqaba we found that corals are not bleaching. We've never witnessed any bleaching event, which is so common elsewhere."
8. Coral pieces in research tank
9. Various of researcher testing coral in lab
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University:
"We've exposed our corals to bleaching conditions and coral bleaching conditions are usually considered as one to two degrees above the summer maximum, the summer maximum temperature, so this is exactly where we started - we exposed them to these temperatures. And there was no bleaching, they didn't bleach, the symbionts (symbiotic organisms) were okay, they felt alright, and so we continued. We elevated the temperature further more, and three degrees and four degrees and five, and only at five and six degrees above summer maximum, they showed signs of stress and bleaching."
11. Cutaway of Professor Fine testing the temperature of coral tanks
12. Various of coral pieces in lab tanks
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University:
"During the Last Glacial Maximum , sea water in the Red Sea dropped by about 120 meters below what it is right now, which means that the Red Sea, the entire Red Sea, was separated from the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Aden, and this resulted in high salinity and mortality of most of the corals and other organisms that lived here as we understand it."
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Eilat, Southern Israel - 2018
14. Various of fish and corals underwater
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Eilat, Israel - 11 February 2019
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University:
"In order to survive conditions, very hot conditions, in the southern Red Sea, they had to be or undergo selection toward thermally resilient corals. Those that suffer from the hot, the very hot conditions down there, didn't survive. And so corals that we see here nowadays are the ones that are descendants of the ones that survived, that underwent that selection in the southern Red Sea. So, that is to say they underwent selection to thermal resilience and tolerance, but now in the Gulf of Aqaba they live at temperatures that are five and six degrees lower than what they were selected for. So, we end with a kind of a gap between what they are capable to withstand and what they are experiencing in practice, in real time."
16. Aerial shot of marine observatory and sea +MUTE+
17. Set up of Jessica Bellworthy, PhD student in Professor Fine's coral lab, working with coral tanks
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Bellworthy, PhD student in Professor Fine's coral lab:
"To understand how species may acclimate or be able to adapt to climate change that we expect to be seeing over the next century, it is very important that we conduct more of these kinds of studies, to see what happens when a parental environmental suffers or changes, what happens onto the offspring, and this will give us information on how well species will be able to adapt or not, to continue to survive or not, and into the future."
19. Cutaway of Bellworthy touching corals in tanks
20.SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Maoz Fine, coral research director at Bar Ilan University
"We think that although sea water temperature is rising in the Gulf of Aqaba, maybe at a rate that exceeds the global average, still we have about 100 years before these corals will experience bleaching conditions or cross the bleaching threshold."
21. Bellworthy looking through microscope at coral pieces inside lab
22. Close-up of screen showing small coral piece
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Bellworthy, PhD student in Professor Fine's coral lab:
"It's estimated that around the world something like 500 million people depend directly on the existence of coral reefs. So, without coral reefs we lose income economically, we also risk our food source, and we also risk our livelihoods or our homes."
24. Pan from sign reading "Red Sea Simulator" to the outdoor coral lab tanks
25. Various of coral underwater from observatory windows
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Eilat, Southern Israel - 2018
26. Underwater shot of diver in reefs with fish
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Eilat, Israel - 11 February 2019
27. Wide of Eilat shoreline
28. Pedestrians walking on marine observatory boardwalk
29. Aerial shot pulling out from research centre to sea +MUTE+
LEADIN:
As the outlook for coral reefs across a warming planet grows grimmer, scientists in Israel have discovered a rare glimmer of hope:
The corals of the northern Red Sea may survive, and even thrive, into the next century.
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There is broad scientific consensus that the effects of climate change have devastated the world's reefs, recently ravaging large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, one of the natural wonders of the world.
But, the corals at the northernmost tip of the Red Sea are exhibiting remarkable resistance to the rising water temperatures and acidification facing the region.
This is according to research conducted by the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences based in Eilat, Israel.
The carbon dioxide that humans release into the atmosphere raises the temperature and the acidity of seawater, which can both poison corals and hamper their growth.
Scientists estimate that half of the corals that existed in the early 20th century have died.
"Corals worldwide are dying and suffering at a rapid pace, but we have not witnessed a single bleaching event in the Gulf of Aqaba," says Maoz Fine, expert on coral reefs at Bar-Ilan University and director of the research.
Overheated water forces corals to eject the brightly colored plants inside their tissue that serve as their primary food and oxygen source.
This causes reefs to "bleach," or take on a bone-white pallor that often indicates that mass mortality is a risk.
Fine examines mini corals in water treated to simulate future global warming scenarios.
Their ruddy color as a sign of good health.
"We've exposed our corals to bleaching conditions and coral bleaching conditions are usually considered as one to two degrees above the summer maximum, the summer maximum temperature, so this is exactly where we started - we exposed them to these temperatures. "And there was no bleaching, they didn't bleach, the symbionts (symbiotic organisms) were okay, they felt alright, and so we continued. We elevated the temperature further more, and three degrees and four degrees and five, and only at five and six degrees above summer maximum, they showed signs of stress and bleaching" says Fine.
The Gulf of Aqaba has become a refuge for tough corals that are projected to outlast far worse future conditions.
While other hardy coral species can be found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans according to Fine there is nowhere else in the world where reefs are as untouched by bleaching as those from the Gulf of Aqaba.
"During the Last Glacial Maximum (ice age), sea water in the Red Sea dropped by about 120 meters below what it is right now, which means that the Red Sea, the entire Red Sea, was separated from the Indian Ocean or the Gulf of Aden, and this resulted in high salinity and mortality of most of the corals and other organisms that lived here as we understand it."
Fine's research credits northern Red Sea coral resilience to a giant natural selection event that occurred some 18,000 years ago.
As glaciers retreated at the end of the ice age, reefs moved to recolonise the southern part of the sea, where temperatures ran exceedingly high.
Only corals that could bear the heat managed to reach maturity and migrate north, where they resettled in conditions several degrees cooler than their thermal threshold
"In order to survive conditions, very hot conditions, in the southern Red Sea, they had to be or undergo selection toward thermally resilient corals. Those that suffer from the hot, the very hot conditions down there, didn't survive. And so corals that we see here nowadays are the ones that are descendants of the ones that survived, that underwent that selection in the southern Red Sea."
"So, that is to say they underwent selection to thermal resilience and tolerance, but now in the Gulf of Aqaba they live in temperatures that are five and six degrees lower than what they were selected for. So, we end with a kind of a gap between what they are capable to withstand and what they are experiencing in practice, in real time" Fine explains.
Fine's latest study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, found further cause for optimism: the coral species' thermal resistance carries over to their offspring.
This indicates that future generations of coral will remain as immune to bleaching as their parents, with implications that could extend beyond this one spot of the Red Sea.
Further research is underway to determine how existing in temperatures below their tolerance levels may lend corals physiological benefits
"To understand how species may acclimate or be able to adapt to climate change that we expect to be seeing over the next century, it is very important that we conduct more of these kinds of studies, to see what happens with a parental environmental suffers or changes, what happens onto the offspring, and this will give us information on how well species will be able to adapt or not, to continue to survive or not, and into the future" says Jessica Bellworthy a PhD student in Professor Fine's coral lab.
Reef death not only carries dire consequences for wildlife, but also for the homes, health and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people: those who fish, work in tourism, dwell on islands made of coral or rely on reef protection from coastal erosion.
Bellworthy says millions of people depend on the existence of coral reefs.
"It's estimated that around the world something like 500 million people depend directly on the existence of coral reefs. So, without coral reefs we lose income economically, we also risk our food source, and we also risk our livelihoods or our homes."
Apart from global warming other threats to corals include local stresses like overfishing, pollution and the jewellery trade.
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