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America's oldest aquarium gets a new look
WASHINGTON - America's oldest aquarium has a new look, and you might not know it's in an unlikely place in downtown D.C. The National Aquarium is inside the the U.S. Department of Commerce building on 14th Street between Pennsylvania and Con...
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 ...
Boy crabs boogie to bring females out of hiding - life - 07 April 2008 - New Scientist
Boy crabs boogie to bring females out of hiding - life - 07 April 2008 - New Scientist ...
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Flat-Faced Crawling Fish Discovered
After countless centuries, this odd anglerfish (right) may finally be ready for its close-up. Discovered in Indonesia in January, the species has forward-looking eyes like a human and crawls rather than swims. These and other traits suggest...
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...
Bertha, New York Aquariums Oldest Shark, Is Dead - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
Bertha, a sand tiger shark who had lived at the New York Aquarium since the 1960s and was believed to be one of the oldest sharks in any aquarium in the world, died on Saturday, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today. She was belie...
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...
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...
Monterey Aquarium shark heading to Mexican waters - San Jose Mercury News
The young white shark returned to the ocean by the Monterey Bay Aquarium six weeks ago has traveled past the southern tip of Baja California, according to aquarium officials. Scientists at the aquarium have been tracking the shark's travels ...
Woman killed when ray leaps onto boat | NEWS.com.au
AN eagle ray has leapt onto a boat off the Florida Keys and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her. "It's a bizarre accident," said Jorge Pino, an agent with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissi...
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...
John Shedd Reed, 1917 - 2008 -- chicagotribune.com
Although John Shedd Reed was born into the prominent and wealthy Shedd family, for whom Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is named, he led a straight-arrow life and knew not to bring business home."Growing up, there was no room for anything that smell...
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...
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...
MontereyHerald.com : - Monterey Bay Aquarium's great white shark goes back to the ocean
Monterey Bay Aquarium has released its third great white shark into the wild. The juvenile male shark was released at dawn Tuesday from a boat in Monterey Bay after being fitted with two electronic tags, said aquarium spokeswoman Angela Hain...
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...
Reefkeeper Elite News
According to www.digitalaquatics.com: We will be starting to take pre-orders in March. We've been working on pricing and part of that has pushed back our original ship date a bit. We think it's important to offer our customers the most for ...
