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...
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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.
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. The coral reefs of world-renowned evironmental icon the Galapagos Islands are among those being threatened with exinction. The El Nino event of 1982 destroyed many coral reefs in the Galapagos, some of which had been living for 400 years... Read Full Story
Looking back: Fiji Rescue for coral reefs
Broadcasting and broadcast: SWR, Sunday, 22 November 2009
Worldwide climate change affects ocean temperatures to rise slowly with a devastating collateral damage: The coral reefs die.
The small village Waitabu braced himself as the first community in Fiji against the consequences: The reefs have been designated as nature reserves, tourists and scuba divers may only after an environmental introduction to the corals, fishermen have to... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
Coral reefs are one of the ocean's must colorful and complex creations. I'm sure you have read about how they are in peril. Climate change, acidification, human development - all are having an impact, most often represented by coral bleaching which is the result of the loss of the symbiotic algae that lives within the coral. I was reviewing several scientific papers and found that there are many studies going on to determine more specifically what is happening to the reefs. As it turns out... Read Full Story
Coral reefs are one of the ocean’s must colorful and complex creations. I’m sure you have read about how they are in peril. Climate change, acidification, human development - all are having an impact, most often represented by coral bleaching which is the result of the loss of the symbiotic algae that lives within the coral. I was reviewing several scientific papers and found that there are many studies going on to determine more specifically what is happening to the reefs. As it turns out... Read Full Story
Information about the Napoleon Wrasse
Napoleon Wrasse Facts
English common name: Napoleon wrasse, Humphead or Maori wrasse
Napoleon Wrasse in the Maldives
Scientific name: Cheilinus undulatus
Characteristics: The Napoleon Wrasse is one of the biggest reef fish in existence, and can grow to more than 2 meters. The Napoleon Wrasse reaches its maximum size and adulthood at approximately 5 years of age, and can live for up to 30 years.
Color: The Napoleon Wrasse color pattern changes... Read Full Story
A follow up to my coral reef posting of last Monday, The Japan Times Online reported an increase at the coral reefs of Shirahama in the number of crown-of-thorns seastars, a species of seastar that feeds - and feeds ravenously - on coral. Shirahama is located on the western Kii Peninsula just below the middle of Japan. Normally, the crown-of-thorns’ range would be held in check by its preference for warmer tropical temperatures where, within a healthy reef ecosystem, it is held in balance as... Read Full Story
A follow up to my coral reef posting of last Monday, The Japan Times Online reported an increase at the coral reefs of Shirahama in the number of crown-of-thorns seastars , a species of seastar that feeds - and feeds ravenously - on coral. Shirahama is located on the western Kii Peninsula just below the middle of Japan. Normally, the crown-of-thorns' range would be held in check by its preference for warmer tropical temperatures where, within a healthy reef ecosystem, it is held in balance... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
