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Coral Reef Health
Track the health of the world's coral reefs, share pictures, and write up stories and opinions about how man's activity and climate change are destroying reef ecosystems. Help protect the world's coral population by getting informed... [more]
Track the health of the world's coral reefs, share pictures, and write up stories and opinions about how man's activity and climate change are destroying reef ecosystems. Help protect the world's coral population by getting informed and sharing what you know.
Reef building corals rely on herbivore animals to continuously remove unwanted algae growth from them, since algae compete with the corals for both sunlight and nutrients. Without regular cleaning, corals eventually die and the reef becomes overgrown by various types of algae. A report scheduled to be published this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences now suggests that having herbivore animals present on the reef isn’t enough; there must...
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Written by Levi Novey As coral reefs around the world continue to disappear, one Florida town has taken the initiative by investing $60,000 to stimulate coral reef growth using electricity. While there is not yet peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that using a low powered electrical current works, scientists are not dismissing the idea. The company that has been hired to make the reefs claims that they have had many prior successes. The town of Lauderdale-by...
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Featuring twelve months of beautiful underwater photography, the 2009 CORAL calendar is our best one yet. We’ve got dueling Blue Ribbon Eels in January, an inquisitive Hawksbill Turtle in March, a thumbnail-sized Pygmy Seahorse in August, and a shockingly colorful Nudibranch in December. Each month features an informative eco-tip to help you save coral reefs no matter where you live. And we've included details about CORAL's conservation work at our seven project sites around the...
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Book on the status of coral reefs in the Pacific launched at USPSource: http://www.usp.ac.fj/news/story.php?id=200
IMR Director Dr Ken Mackay
at the launch of the book
The health of coral reefs in the Southwest Pacific is the subject of a new book which was launched at the University of the South Pacific this week.
Status of Coral Reefs in the SouthWest Pacific: 2004, which has been edited by Reuben Sulu, brings together reports from Fiji, Nauru, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon...
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Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday its Coral Reef Watch network has been expanded from 24...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida : U.S. scientists can now gauge sea surface temperatures at nearly 200 coral reef locations worldwide using satellite technology, which could help prevent the death of entire coral ...
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When reef fish get a mouthful of sand, coral reefs can drown. That's the latest startling evidence to emerge from research into the likely fate of reefs under climate change and rising sea levels, at the ARC ...
- Pollution Slowly Killing World`s Coral Reefs (javno.com)
Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide.
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Coral reefs are experiencing dramatic decline of population worldwide because of many factors like for instance global warming, illegal fishing and marine debris. Coral reefs play important role in many marine ecosystems which makes ...
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When reef fish get a mouthful of sand, coral reefs can drown. That's the latest startling evidence to emerge from research into the likely fate of reefs under climate change and rising sea levels, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS).
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"Of the many different fish that are part of coral ecosystems, there may be a small number of species that are really critical for keeping big seaweeds from ...
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(SkyNewswire.com)--- Barcelona, Spain -- The increase in global carbon dioxide emissions is not just damaging the Earth's climate, but also threatening the very fabric of our oceans. Today, The Nature Conservancy, along with the support of a dozen of the world's top marine scientists, presented...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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Corals can drown in oceans that are too sandy, and rising sea levels could leave the reefs buried and unable to regrow, new research has found.
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