Articles in the Coral Reefs Category

Undersea garden takes root
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Technology on 29 October 2007
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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 [...]

Fishing ban protects largest coral reef in the Philippines
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Coral Reefs on 13 October 2007
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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, such as fishing, [...]

Scientists building Giant Concrete Reef
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Habitat on 13 October 2007
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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.
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“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 [...]

Fish disappear from stressed Philippines coral reefs
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Habitat on 25 September 2007
Stats: 99 views and 1 Comment

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 disasters and [...]

Plane to Help Protect Hawaii Coral Reefs
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Habitat, Technology on 20 September 2007
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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 video footage back [...]

Coral “shuffle” helps reefs survive warmer world: study
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs on 16 July 2007
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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 improve their [...]

C02 Hurts Reef Growth; ‘Dissolving Instead Of Growing
By solonavi
Posted in Climate, Coral Reefs on 12 July 2007
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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.
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The researchers have been [...]

Great Barrier Reef and its bounty under attack
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Global Warming, Habitat on 11 July 2007
Stats: 1,134 views and 2 Comments

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.
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The mass bleaching in the summer of 2002 [...]

CITES backs red, pink and other corals
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Coral Reefs, General, Habitat on 14 June 2007
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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 strict conditions.
Red [...]

Coral disease definitely tied to warming
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, General, Global Warming on 13 May 2007
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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.
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Published in the online journal PLoS Biology, the study tracked the relationship between water temperature [...]