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Straits Times A GARDEN – not for humans but for sea life – has taken root in the waters off Labrador Park. It is where conditions have been created to attract sea creatures, and where corals moved from other places can establish themselves. The marine garden is the work of a team from the Singapore [...]

Following the previous report on Philipines Coral Reef.  WWF Reef fish and other marine species can breathe easier with the introduction of a fishing ban around Apo Reef, the largest coral reef in the Philippines and the second largest contiguous reef in the world after the Great Barrier Reef. Under the ban, all extractive activities, [...]

reuters Israeli scientists are building a giant concrete reef to lure more divers and snorkelers to the Red Sea without endangering one of the world’s most diverse coral communities. : “People and coral don’t really go together,” Nadav Shashar, a marine ecologist at Israel’s Ben Gurion University told Reuters. “What we are trying to do [...]

Yahoo News Fish species are fast disappearing from Philippine waters as delicate coral reefs, some of the biggest in the world, are destroyed in the archipelago, environmentalists warned Monday. International marine watchdog group Reef Check painted a devastating picture of the condition of the reefs, which are being damaged and killed by coral bleaching, natural [...]

AP A kite-sized, unmanned airplane is joining the effort to protect endangered Hawaiian monk seals and coral reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Managers of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument plan to use the 10-pound plane as early as October to help them spot nets and other marine debris. The electric-powered craft will transmit digital [...]

reuters Australia’s Great Barrier Reef might be able to survive warming sea temperatures, as a result of global warming, better than first thought because some coral algae are more heat tolerant, Australian scientists said. Coral geneticists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science have found that many corals store several types of algae, which can [...]

underwatertimes Coral reefs are at risk of going soft, quite literally turning to mush as rising carbon dioxide levels prevent coral from forming tough skeletons, according to UQ research. UQ marine scientists have shown that too much carbon dioxide absorption turns seawater acidic which may prevent corals building their skeletons which make up reefs. : [...]

MSNBC Off Australia’s east coast, you will find the Blue Outback, a kaleidoscope of life that is the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s biggest structure built by living organisms. But it is under siege from climate change and warming waters that have twice bleached its spectacularly colored corals white. : The mass bleaching in the [...]

WWF Red, pink and other coral species in the genus Corallium will be better protected from over-exploitation after delegates attending a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES ) adopted a US proposal to list the genus in Appendix II of the convention. Appendix II allows trade in a species under [...]

MSNBC In a dire warning about global warming’s impact on coral reefs around the world, researchers reported Tuesday that for the first time warmer sea temperatures have been conclusively linked to the severity of coral diseases that can wipe out entire reefs. : Published in the online journal PLoS Biology, the study tracked the relationship [...]