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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 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.
'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 ...
- Shallow Water Coral Reef (feedburner.com)
- A Coral Reef's Mass Spawning | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine (blogsearch.google.com)
- Coral Reef's Hankerson Jr. set to play for Alabama (miamiherald.com)
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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From ecnmag.com
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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 [...]
From thaindian.com
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- GBR Alliance (johnquiggin.com)
- Politicians Urged To Save Great Barrier Reef (redorbit.com)
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...
From phuketgazette.net
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- New coral reef found near Phuket (phuketgazette.net)
- Turtle injury leaves swimmer shell-shocked (blogger.com)
- Cooler Temperatures Spare Many Coral Reefs (redorbit.com)
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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From eurekalert.org
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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...
From redorbit.com
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- Scientists Fear Coral Reefs Are Doomed (drudge.com)
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...
From del.icio.us
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- The Value of Coral Reefs | Geology.com (blogsearch.google.com)
