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Winter the dolphin gets bionic tail - Telegraph
Only closer inspection reveals the dolphin's rear end is entirely prosthetic. Winter, an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, lost her own tail after being caught in a harsh crab trap. She was found at just two-months old in 2006, floating in distres...
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...
The plight of the Great Barrier Reef - On Line Opinion - 7/5/2008
ver the past decades there have been many stories in the media about the plight of the Great Barrier Reef. In the '60s and '70s we all heard that the Great Barrier Reef was about to be consumed by that voracious predator, the Crown of Thorns ...
Full Tanks and Empty Reefs - Honolulu Magazine - September 2006 - Hawaii
He drives them like cattle along a fenceline of billowing, fine-mesh net—butterflyfish, damsels, yellow tangs. Slowly pumping his fins through the current, fisherman Neil Dart glides over the reef, pushing the small school into a corner of ...
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...
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...
Rabbit Fish To The Rescue Of The Reef
ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2008) — While rabbits continue to ravage Australia’s native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction. The reason, say scientists, is the same in both cases – bot...
Microsoft helps scientists study oceans, volcanoes and life's start
March 19, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. is developing software to help scientists study the ocean to learn more about undersea volcanoes, weather patterns, global warming and even where they think life on Earth may have started. As par...
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...
Kansas.com | 03/09/2008 | See them before they're gone
That dream vacation -- diving along the Great Barrier Reef, skiing in the Swiss Alps -- could remain a dream forever if you don't get a move on. The brilliant coral off the coast of Australia could be largely gone by 2050, says a 2007 report ...
White killer whale spotted in Aleutian seas
The sighting of a rare, white killer whale off Alaska's Aleutian Islands is causing waves of excitement among researchers and whale enthusiasts. The whale, photographed by scientists on a U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration v...
CNN Heroes: Reef restoration provides passion for diver - CNN.com
After witnessing the rapid devastation of a Cayman Island coral reef where he had been diving since childhood, Todd Barber was moved from horror to action. He gave up a six-figure salary as a marketing consultant and dedicated his life to re...
Press TV - World's first 'Hexapus' found in UK
British marine experts have discovered 'Henry the Hexapus', a unique six-legged octopus, in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast. The creature has two limbs less than normal octopi, believed to be the result of a birth defect. The creature...
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...
$150 Yellow Tangs a possibility
Check out this bill being proposed in Hawaii. Report Title: Fishing; Ornamental Fish; Bag Limits; No Take Category; Appropriation Description: Imposes bag limits on certain ornamental fish; prohibits catching of certain ornamental fish; approp...
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...
