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A team of experts led by University of Charleston in South Carolina (UCSC) ocean ecologist and biology professor Phil Dustan announces the development of a new method for observing changes affecting coral reefs around the world. The technique requires the use of satellites.
Dustan was one of the first experts in th... |
27 January 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Australia has another good reason for being proud. Its government has given the green light to an innovative eco-friendly project, meant to safeguard the biodiversity of the Coral Sea waters.
Australian authorities have decided to transform this surface into a marine reserve larger than any previous attempts of thi... |
30 November 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Researchers from the Smithsonian reached the conclusion that the coral reefs' biodiversity has been significantly underestimated. This statement was made after experts evaluated the potential of a tropical surface measuring 20.6 square feet (6.3 square meters). They discovered that it shelters as many crab spe... |
4 November 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Six aquanauts are currently living aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, which is located off Key Largo, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The experts are monitoring endangered coral reefs in the area, trying to determine how the react to global warming and ocean acidification.
Scientists and tec... |
23 September 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Marine biologists in the United States were able to establish the age of deep-sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico with tremendous accuracy. During a new study, they calculated the exact age of these marine creatures for the first time, and determined some colonies to be more than 2,000 years old. The age of the re... |
31 March 2011
08:42 GMT |
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A large group of scientists featuring members from around the world has recently issued a new report on the state of the world's coral reefs, which shows that about 75 percent of them are under threat. This is the first time a survey of this scale takes into account a large number of local and global pressures, ... |
2 March 2011
05:41 GMT |
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A team of investigators was recently able to determine that long-term weather patterns for northern Australia can be derived from analysis work conducted on coral reef growth rings. The discovery also brings some bad news – the torrential rains that the country was subjected to during these past few weeks are n... |
10 February 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Biologists have recently identified a very concerning trend among coral reefs. It would appear that the organisms prefer to develop in a northward direction, rather than continue to grow on their usual grounds. This change could be a response to global warming, scientists say. All over the world, ocean temperatures a... |
22 January 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Sea urchins are among the factors threatening coral stability around the world. In reefs that are overfished, the number of urchins grows significantly, and the creatures begin consuming coral algae. A new study has shown that coral reefs in areas closed to fishing grow faster and richer.
Inside reefs, intricate ... |
15 January 2011
06:01 GMT |
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A group of researchers conducting investigation in the waters off the coasts of Puerto Rico were able to discover populations of coral reefs living at average depths, of between 100 and 500 feet. These reefs appeared to be in good health, which is tremendous news. Conservation experts believe that these reefs and the... |
5 January 2011
04:17 GMT |
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Following a 9-day scientific sortie in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers in the United States found extensive damage on coral reef populations. The massive oil spill the began in April spread over a huge surface on top of the water, but also produced massive plumes underneath the waves.The investigation was conducted b... |
21 December 2010
09:24 GMT |
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The Heron Island Research Station, a research facility operated by the University of Queensland, is now the home of a state-of-the-art climate change experimental facility dedicated to understanding the effects that global warming has on oceans in general, and on coral reefs in particular. The new facility was built ... |
9 December 2010
05:16 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that unseasonal temperature variations brought on by the El Nino atmospheric pattern is have a tremendous effect on fish populations living in South Pacific coral reefs. The conclusion belongs to an international team of biologists, that spent more then fou... |
1 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Over the past ten years or so, a researcher at the University of Bristol has kept a close ear on the sounds that are produced naturally in and around coral reefs, by fish, urchins and the corals themselves. These noises can be used as indicators of how healthy the reefs are as a whole.The expert has been focusing his... |
29 November 2010
06:43 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States has just finished conducting a multi-week expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, which sought to determine the health status of coral reefs and other related marine communities. Multiple signs of recent damage were discovered.Scientists from governmental agencies, univer... |
5 November 2010
05:23 GMT |
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A team of independent scientists has started a new investigations campaign in the Gulf of Mexico, that will provide additional insight into how the BP oil spill affected corals living deep under the surface. This type of reeds are relatively unstudied, when compared to their shallow-water brethren, because they are a... |
21 October 2010
04:25 GMT |
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Scientists have demonstrated in a new study of coral reefs that the area of the upper ocean where deep cold waters mix with warm surface waters is getting shallowed. The region is called the thermocline. The new investigation was carried out in the western Pacific Ocean, on tropical coral reefs, the team behind the w... |
13 October 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that, in all likelihood, coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea will exhibit the phenomenon known as bleaching in 2010.This will affect the southern and southeastern Caribbean most of all, but other areas will be at risk as well. Bleaching is... |
23 September 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Listening to coral reefs can apparently be used as a method of keeping tabs on the health of both corals and other marine species living in or around them, a new scientific investigation shows. The conclusion belongs to a report that was released by the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, and ... |
20 September 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Over the past few years, climate scientists have advanced the hypothesis stating the outbreaks in coral diseases were related to summer temperatures in the world's oceans, but that view was in a new study demonstrated to be too narrow.An international team of scientists showed that these outbreaks can also be li... |
17 September 2010
05:52 GMT |
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By harvesting coral fossils that are more than 20,000 years old, experts hope to be able to paint a clearer picture of how global sea levels may have changed over time, and especially since the last glacial period. A team of researchers recently conducted an expedition at the outer fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, ... |
7 September 2010
01:57 GMT |
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While diving in the waters around the Arno atoll in the Marshall Islands, experts managed to recently discover a new reef of the world's rarest corals. The Pacific elkhorn coral (Acropora rotumana) stands out from other species through the fact that, as it grows, it branches off like an elk's antlers, givin... |
9 August 2010
03:42 GMT |
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In additional to actual pollution, noise pollution is one of the main factors triggering biodiversity loss in the world's oceans. Over the past couple of decades, the amount of noises that permeate the global waters has increased several times over, and marine animals that rely on sounds for communications and o... |
4 August 2010
02:37 GMT |
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Over the past century, our planet has been warming at a slow but sure rate. Largely the byproduct of human pollution and the release of vast amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, this global warming has been triggering a host of side-effects, including the acidification of the world's oceans. This happe... |
12 June 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Scientists have recently discovered that baby coral reefs tend to use special sounds as reference points in swimming to an already-established reef. While still in their larval from, the animals “listen” carefully to the sounds various other creatures living around reefs make, and then move directly towar... |
17 May 2010
10:27 GMT |
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For the first time ever, a group of investigators managed to produce conclusive scientific evidence that certain species of seaweeds are capable of killing corals just by touching them. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) made the discovery in a series of experiments that they ran on th... |
11 May 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Marine biologists announce that the world's coral reefs, endangered by increased, global warming-induced ocean acidification, may be able to endure their ordeal. A team of researchers has just completed a review of some of the most ancient corals in the world, and its members believe that these lifeforms may be ... |
1 March 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Scientists interested in analyzing the evolution of coral reefs in the Red Sea announce the development of a new map showing the formations. The dataset, which includes satellite, aerial and ship-based measurements, was compiled by a team of researchers from the United States. The main focus of the investigation was ... |
23 February 2010
09:47 GMT |
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For the last ten years or so, a large international group of researchers, featuring marine biologists, oceanographers and so on, has been involved in one of the largest reviews ever. The goal of the investigation is to produce new scientific data to explain things such as the diversity of marine species, their distri... |
19 February 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Experts believe that, by studying the fossilized corals inside reefs, they could get more information about how sea levels changed since the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago. They add that the Great Barrier Reef could be the optimum starting point for such an investigation, given the scale of the reef, and also it... |
15 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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One of the methods proposed by marine biologists in fighting the widespread, global loss of coral reefs is to construct artificial structures, of which these organisms could take hold. This has already been done with subway cars, and even war ships, which have been purposefully sunken at designated locations. But now... |
19 January 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Coral reefs are famous around the world for their beauty and for the fact that they are home to a huge diversity of marine species, much more so than any other place in the ocean. In a recent scientific study, it was proven that, in addition to housing these animals, the reefs also promoted evolution and adaptation, ... |
8 January 2010
06:38 GMT |
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The Galapagos Islands, some of the most famous in the world, have already been drastically altered by global warming and human activity. Their marine ecosystems have been destroyed by artificial structures, overfishing, and the introduction of sea urchins that destroy coral reefs, and there isn't much that anyon... |
4 December 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Between April 4th and 28th, the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia will be center stage of the last expedition in an international collaboration program, which has unfurled over more than 4 years. The area that will host the last stage of the investigation is called Farasan Banks and is reported that the region contains a... |
26 March 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Researchers investigating deep-sea coral reefs off the coast of Hawaii have recently announced that they believe they've discovered the old marine animals with a skeleton in the ocean, having dated a coral sample to more than 4,265 years ago. Unlike their shallow-water counterparts, deep-sea corals live at depth... |
24 March 2009
04:20 GMT |
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While there still are those who say that global warming is a hoax or an elaborate “plot” for some obscure reason, the reality is that the world is currently facing one of its biggest challenges since the last major extinction, and the United Nations warns that, if something is not done to repair the situa... |
16 December 2008
02:34 GMT |
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The acidification of oceans is one of the most pressing concerns that trouble scientists, along with increased levels of pollutants being spilled in the waters everyday. This is bad news especially for coral reefs, which stand to be destroyed by both algae and sand moving in, as well as by increased quantities of car... |
12 November 2008
14:01 GMT |
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Representatives from 6 nations will be meeting in Australia this week to discuss the worsening state of affairs regarding the coral reefs in the region. Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Solomon Islands comprise the Coral Triangle (CT), a region where about one third of the w... |
11 November 2008
02:48 GMT |
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The symbiotic relations that form between corals, algae and fish are essential for preserving a balance of species in the oceans of the world. Any measure of imbalance and the whole ecosystem can collapse, which would send ripples throughout the maritime species, as inter-connections go a long way. The whitening of t... |
3 November 2008
10:57 GMT |
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Latest scientific discoveries point to the fact that coral reefs and sand are "allergic" to each other, in that they can't survive together. This is especially true for the coral reefs, which, once sand gets in their midst, die and cannot regenerate even after long periods of time. The find is essential in under... |
15 October 2008
10:57 GMT |
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