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Concrete and corals? | Jerusalem Post
For most people, the idea of concrete blocks replacing coral reefs might seem far-fetched. But for a group of marine scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, it is just what the doctor ordered. Sturdy enough to last, y...
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Catching corals' spectacular moment
The coral reefs in the tropical western Pacific are at the brink of one of the most spectacular and significant nights in their annual life cycle. By the light of April's full moon on Sunday or, quite likely a night or two after, corals will ...
Nuked coral reef bounces back - earth - 14 April 2008 - New Scientist Environment
What does a coral reef look like 50 years after being nuked? Not so bad, it seems. Coconuts growing on Bikini Atoll haven't fared so well, however. Three islands of Bikini Atoll were vapourised by the Bravo hydrogen bomb in 1954, which shook ...
New Coral Reef DiscoveredTaipei Times - archives
Much to the excitement of marine ecologists, new coral reefs have been discovered in Shanyuan Bay (杉原灣) off Taitung, a local biodiversity researcher reported on Monday. "The Shanyuan Bay coral reefs span a broad area of water and contai...
Reef development independent of coral diversity | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
The development of coral reefs is independent of coral species diversity, scientists from UK and USA have found. In a study published in a recent issue of the journal Science, Kenneth Johnson, Jeremy Jackson and Ann Budd compared changes in c...
Reef specialists decline when corals suffer | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
Scientists have confirmed that reef specialists suffer more when corals decline by studying damselfishes (pomacentrids) in the Great Barrier Reef.The study by Shaun Wilson, Scott Burgess, Alistair Cheal, Mike Emslie, Rebecca Fisher, Ian Mille...
Coral's addiction to 'junk food'
Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to ‘junk food’ - and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. Read Full Article: Coral's addiction to 'junk food' ...
Giant waves break up Caribbean coral - Yahoo! News
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Unusually large waves churned by an Atlantic storm system have littered the beaches of Barbados with broken coral in what could be a sign of damage to reefs across the region, a scientist said Sunday. Read Full...
Giant marine life found in Antarctica - Yahoo! News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish...
Grief on the reef - CNN.com
The world's coral reefs are under threat. Overfishing, unsustainable tourism, coastal development, pollution, the global aquarium trade and climate change are having a devastating effect on these fragile ecosystems, according to the Internati...
Manila Ocean Park
Barely two weeks since its soft opening last February 29, the Manila Ocean Park, Metro Manila’s newest landmark, has been drawing in tourists and city residents who are curious to experience being surrounded by countless fish species. But i...
Fast-growing corals key to Caribbean reef: study | Environment | Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Two dominant coral species have built a good chunk of the Caribbean reef, and their ability to grow quickly may help the region's coral reefs keep pace with rising sea levels caused by global warming, researchers say. The s...
SDSUniverse | Microbes Threaten Coral Reefs
While fish populations have been decimated by overfishing worldwide, a research team led by San Diego State University biology professor Forest Rohwer have recently found how the practice can also endanger coral reefs. According to the team'...
Divers help reduce starfish threat to coral reefs - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
MABINI, BATANGAS – Coral reefs off this town have been spared, albeit temporarily, from yet another ecological threat by the predatory Crown of Thorns starfish (COTs), thanks to clean-up operations by a group of divers. At least 40 voluntee...
Monitoring Reefs
The head of a working group that is studying ways on the restoration of impacted coral reefs and how to come up with cost effective measures has just completed a five-day monitoring assignment here in Palau, where one of the two sites of an e...
Swimmers’ Sunscreen Kills Coral : Environmental News Blog | Environmental Graffiti
Islands and beaches ringed by coral reefs draw thousands of tourists a year. But it seems that the tourists attracted by the coral’s beauty and animal diversity may be inadvertently destroying the reefs. The real culprit is somethi...
CO2 Science
In order to correctly interpret the current status of earth's coral reefs, it is necessary to understand their longer-term history; and to predict their future status, this knowledge is essential. Hence, we here review what we have learned ab...
The Scientist : Compromising Coral Immunity
In the summer of 1983, hundreds of square meters of graceful elkhorn coral on the floor of the Caribbean Sea began collapsing from disease and became overrun by a green carpet of algae. Within a few years, only rubble remained. "It wiped out ...
Underwater robots help scientists study reefs
3:10 p.m., Jan. 25, 2008--The Caribbean island of Bonaire arguably has some of the most unspoiled coral reefs in the world. A multinational team of researchers, including two UD scientists and 16 undergrads, is taking a collaborative, high-te...
AFP: 2005 a deadly year for Caribbean coral
PARIS (AFP) — The Caribbean's fragile coral reefs were devastated in 2005 by a doubly whammy of record-high temperatures and 13 full-on hurricanes, according to a UN-sponsored report released Monday. During the last 50 years many Caribbean ...
Save coral reefs for future generations - 01/25/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
Coral reefs are more than just aesthetic pleasures. Home to a rich diversity of marine life, these ocean habitats are central to the economies of many developing nations and to the livelihoods of coastal communities around the world. Realizin...
Natural Attraction - The Honolulu Advertiser
The Board of Land and Natural Resources yesterday levied $550,000 in fines against a Maui tour boat company for damaging coral in the pristine waters of Molokini. The administrative fine against Maui Snorkel Charters, which does business as M...
The Associated Press: Resarchers Looking at Coral Threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystem...
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Science Expedition to Coral Reefs in Caribbean Helps Launch International Year of the Reef
A NOAA-sponsored expedition is investigating shallow and deep coral ecosystems off the Caribbean island of Bonaire, part of the Netherland Antilles. Multiple underwater robots and divers are surveying arguably the most pristine coral reefs in...
Can the crown jewel of world's coral reefs be saved? | csmonitor.com
Nusa LembongAn, Indonesia - It's 10:39 a.m. on an overcast Tuesday when the skipper points his 40-foot pontoon boat toward a trio of islands off southern Bali. As he clears Benoa Harbor, he opens the throttle on three 250-horsepower outboards...
Hurricanes and global warming devastate Caribbean coral reefs | Environment | The Guardian
Warmer seas and a record hurricane season in 2005 have devastated more than half of the coral reefs in the Caribbean, according to scientists. In a report published yesterday, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned that this severe damage...
UnderwaterTimes | New Tool Developed To Study Drifting Larvae And Juvenile Marine Species
Miami, Florida (Jan 19, 2008 14:37 EST) One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species...
Coral Reefs Losing Ground Throughout the Pacific: Scientific American
Coral reefs throughout the world face an array of threats: nutrient pollution, starfish predation and deadly bleaching that follows warmer sea temperatures. Yet they provide between $10,000 and $100,000 in economic benefits to nearby communit...
No Reef Relief: Warming Abets Coral Disease in Australia's Great Barrier Reef: Scientific American
Corals under temperature stress blanch, expelling symbiotic algae that hide the white skeletons below them. But this coral bleaching is not the only phenomena that renders the tiny creatures ashen and lifeless: So-called white syndrome spread...
Ocean Parks Help Corals Rebound: Scientific American
Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas has existed since 1959 and been protected from fishing since 1986—but it took until now to prove that such fisheries management could actually help corals rebound. One of the Caribbean's largest ...
