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reuters Warmer sea temperatures are linked to the severity of a coral disease, according to a study on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef that offers a dire warning about global warming’s potential impact on the world’s troubled reefs. The 6-year study released on Monday tracked the relationship between water temperature and the frequency of a coral [...]

reuters Climate change is affecting the growth of fish, with those living in warmer, shallow waters growing faster and species in cooling deep ocean waters growing slower, according to an Australian study. The research by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) found fish were growing faster in waters above a depth of 250 [...]

Discovery Channel A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia raised an island nearly four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest coral die-offs recorded, scientists said Friday. Researchers who surveyed the island of Simeulue in recent weeks found that the March 2005 quake had exposed most of the coral along its [...]

WWF An infestation of predator starfish is decimating large tracts of coral reef throughout the Philippines. The spiny and toxic crown-of-thorns starfish are voracious predators that can wipe out large areas of coral; an individual can consume up to 6 square metres of living reef per year. Outbreaks of the species often occur when ocean [...]

sciencenow By Dave Mosher ScienceNOW Daily News 29 March 2007 Coral has to worry about global warming for two reasons. Not only does carbon dioxide in the atmosphere make the oceans uncomfortably warm, it also enters the water and becomes carbonic acid, where it can dissolve a coral’s external skeleton (ScienceNOW, 17 February). Yet new [...]

University of Florida, IFAS Coral might be the slowest-growing crop ever farmed by the University of Florida, but researchers say damaged reefs could be repaired faster if they perfect methods to cultivate the marine organisms. UF experts are raising seven species of coral at the Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in Ruskin, and next week they’ll dive [...]

msnbc SYDNEY, Australia – Satellite images of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef show that sediment from river run-off is threatening the reef at a greater rate than previously realized, Australia’s peak scientific body said on Wednesday. The images, taken this month by NASA and U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites, show sediment creating a hazy [...]

reuters From a boat at sea, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef seems invincible — its myriad corals stretching 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) beyond sight. But the reef’s vastness and wave-smashing outcrops mask fragility in the face of climate change threatening to bleach its fluorescent depths the stark white of death. The reef, and possibly the A$5.8 [...]

Guardian Unlimited Global warming is creating an ocean famine in swaths of tropical and sub-tropical seas, according to research using nearly a decade of satellite data.The finding, which has long been predicted by computer models, suggests that as warming continues, fish stocks in tropical and sub-tropical regions will drop significantly. The study showed that in [...]

bbc United Nations negotiations on fisheries have ended without a global ban on trawling methods which destroy coral reefs and fish nurseries. Conservation groups and some governments had argued for a ban on bottom-trawling, which drags heavy nets and crushing rollers on the sea floor. Negotiators could only agree on a limited set of precautionary [...]