Coral reefs are exposed to great risks associated with global warming and man-made threats, like unsustainable fishing practices.
However, a new green method is safeguarding fishes, oysters and corals, ensuring their development and even helping them grow faster.
Biorock reef restoration depends on a risk-free lo... |
28 December 2011
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A team of biologists found a graveyard of deep-sea gorgonian corals, 11 kilometers south-west of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.These corals, which used to be quite colorful before, are now brown and have layers of peeling tissue, and it is known that when coral get stressed, they release mucus... |
8 November 2010
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For the first time, an area of reefs with deep-sea corals was discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore of Israel.The University of Haifa's Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences exploration team who made the discovery was led by Professor Zvi Ben Avraham, and used the vessel Nautilus for the operations.T... |
5 October 2010
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A severe rise in the surface temperatures in Indonesian waters triggered a large-scale coral bleaching that is devastating for coral populations, announced the Wildlife Conservation Society yesterday.The “bleaching” of corals is the whitening phenomenon that occurs when the algae that live within coral ti... |
17 August 2010
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Coral reefs are in danger of soon beginning to dissolve completely, a new scientific study to be published on March 13th in the online edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letter shows. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have been behind the research, say that, i... |
10 March 2009
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Coral reefs throughout the world are currently endangered by a myriad of human activities, including extensive and unsustainable fishing, pollution, climate change and ocean acidification. According to scientific estimates, most coral species could soon go extinct altogether, especially considering that rising sea le... |
27 October 2008
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Tough no obvious scientific connection was found between electricity going through steel structures and coral reef growth, the Florida city of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has already invested over $60,000 in contracts with two companies that claim they can help save endangered reefs of the town's beaches. Six hangar-s... |
10 October 2008
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After noticing the rapid decline rate of coral reefs in all habitats, international scientists began extensive study on the conditions a reef must have in order to survive and to expand. For that purpose, they placed several underwater cages on designated locations in the Caribbean Sea, each of them containing two di... |
9 October 2008
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