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Twenty years of research has led Dr. Graham Jones of Australia’s Southern Cross University to discover a startling connection between coral reefs and coastal precipitation. According to Jones, a substance produced by thriving coral reefs seed clouds leading to precipitation in a long-standing natural process that is coming under threat due to climate change.
“Coral reefs [...]

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Coral Gardening from Jonathan Clay on Vimeo.
Many reef aquarium owners get their corals by trading them with nearby reefkeepers. Once corals get to a certain size it’s pretty easy to propagate (or frag) them by cutting off a branch here or a a few polyps there. It’s usually cheaper and easier than buying from a [...]

BBC
The world’s most important coral region is in danger of being wiped out by the end of this century unless fast action is taken, says a new report.
The international conservation group WWF warns that 40% of reefs in the Coral Triangle have already been lost.
The area is shared between Indonesia and five other south-east Asian [...]

Yahoo News
Scientists thought it would take a decade for Southeast Asia’s coral reefs to heal after 2004’s deadly tsunami but they said Friday that Indonesia’s reefs have bounced back with surprising speed, restoring livelihoods to countless small communities.
The findings came as communities across the Indian Ocean remembered the disaster that struck Dec. 26, 2004 with [...]

Center for Biological Diversity
SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida – NOAA’s Fisheries Service is increasing its protection of threatened elkhorn and staghorn corals in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands through a new rule to prohibit activities that result in death or harm to either species.
The new regulations took effect on November 21 and five days [...]

Impact of rising carbon dioxide levels far worse than previously thought

WWF
Re-seeding programmes on over 50 reefs are securing the survival of the giant clam for at least another generation, according to WWF-Philippines.
The clams, the world’s largest bivalve mollusks and the star of lurid but mostly imaginary literary and cinematic depictions of trapped divers, can live for over a century. They have been known to exceed [...]

www.ipsnews.net
One third of reef-building corals already face extinction because of climate change, the first-ever global assessment has found.
Reefs are made up of hundreds of coral species, and a two-year study to determine the current status of corals has discovered that 231 of the 704 species assessed will be “red-listed” Thursday. This means these 231 species [...]

timesonline.co.uk
Five years after the hit film that endeared the clownfish to audiences the world over, Nemo is becoming increasingly difficult to find.
The lovable tropical species, immortalised in the smash Pixar movie Finding Nemo, is facing extinction in many parts of the world because of soaring demand from the pet trade, according to marine biologists.
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Dr Billy [...]

http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/
The release of sulfur and nitrogen into the atmosphere by power plants and agricultural activities is making seawater more acidic, especially in coastal waters, according to a study published September 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Acid rain isn’t just a problem of the land; it’s also affecting the ocean,” said Scott [...]