Coral Reef Health

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 and... [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.

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Have you ever thought about an elite  career? If you have, then you may have a lot of different occupations in mind. If you enjoy scuba diving, then you may be asking yourself what type of career you can get from scuba diving aside from becoming a dive master. Aside from just being able to explore the ocean, you will see that there are occupations that involve deep sea diving. There are a lot of careers that entail deep sea diving. One such career is that of being a commercial diver. This kind of diving requires a lot of courage and strict training. Deep ... Read Full Story
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The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25 percent, below 2000 levels. This is the grim warning by some of the world's foremost marine and environmental scientists who briefed MPs in Canberra. “The 'outstanding universal values' of the GBR (Great Barrier Reef), recognised by its inclusion on the World Heritage List in 1981, are now threatened by rapid climate change,” said Terry Hughes, director of ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. “Coral reefs are in the front line of the effects of climate change because of their sensitivity to ... Read Full Story
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The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years, according Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, at a conference in London: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be over within 20 years or so. They would be the world’s first global ecosystem to collapse. I have the backing of every coral reef scientist, every research organization. I’ve spoken to them all. This is critical. This is reality.” After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological ... Read Full Story
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The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years, according Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, at a conference in London: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be over within 20 years or so. They would be the world’s first global ecosystem to collapse. I have the backing of every coral reef scientist, every research organization. I’ve spoken to them all. This is critical. This is reality.” After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological ... Read Full Story
Written by CaseyKazan on
After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef ecosystems around the world. Coral reefs form the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is visible from outer space (image). The reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 3,000 kilometers over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometers. An explosion of knowledge is helping to explain why coral reefs around the world are ... Read Full Story
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'Barbados was under uninterrupted British control from the first landing of sailors in 1625 until the coming of independence in 1966' Photo: GETTY 'The colonial splendour of the Coral Reef Club' Cocktail hour at the Coral Reef Club and the guests ...  
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The deep sea is one of the last remaining frontiers in human exploration. Hidden within the darkness are reefs known as cold water corals, home to crustaceans, molluscs, other invertebrates and fish that form the base of a food chain. As part of a European-funded research programme,...  
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Sydney, Nov 18 (IANS) The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25 percent, below 2000 levels. This is the grim warning by some of the world’s foremost marine and environmental scientists who briefed MPs in Canberra. “The ‘outstanding universal values’ of the GBR (Great Barrier Reef), recognised [...]  
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KARON, PHUKET: An artificial coral reef sunk off Phuket’s Karon Beach two years ago is thought to be responsible for a bumper haul of fish caught by local fishermen earlier this month.Around 400 jacks weighing four to five kilos each were caught in a single day by a small group of fishermen using a local type of net called an ‘uan ple’ (cradle net) at Karon on November 6.Pornchai Fai-ngarm, a Karon taxi driver who has fished in waters off...  
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Coral reefs live in some of the most nutrient deficient waters on the planet, so how do they survive? Jasper De Goeij has discovered that Halisarca caerulea sponges could be the key to reef survival. They recycle dissolved organic carbon that is unavailable to other reef residents and De Goeij publishes his discovery on November 13, 2009, in the Journal of Experimental Biology.  
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One of the first set of studies to examine what tourists and recreation enthusiasts actually think about coral reef ecosystems suggests they are a rare exception to controversies over human use versus environmental conservation – their stunning beauty is so extraordinary that almost everyone wants them protected in perpetuity.That core belief is often strong enough that if it means people have to be kept out, so be it.The analysis, done in...  
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The ocean is absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide—a natural process. However, as carbon dioxide enters the ocean, it reacts with water to form acid. Subsequent chemical reactions that try to maintain a normal pH level in the ocean end up reducing the amount of calcium carbonate—a component in the skeletons of many organisms such as corals, lobsters, clams, and pteropods. Without calcium carbonate, these organisms cannot properly grown and...  
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