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National Geograpohic One fish—the goliath grouper—has suddenly become two. The Atlantic goliath grouper, found in warm waters of the Americas and western Africa, is a separate species from the goliath grouper that roams tropical reefs of the eastern Pacific Ocean, a new genetic study shows. The newly identified Pacific goliath grouper can grow more than [...]

CNN An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide. : The last census on the species, carried out during the 1980s, estimated that there were only 100,000 of the gorillas left worldwide. Since then, the [...]

independent.co.uk Lobsters have boomed in Britain’s first marine nature reserve, where fishing is banned. The large crustaceans have soared in numbers in the “no-take zone” around Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, which was established five years ago as a prototype for sea-life reserves around Britain. Lobsters of takeable size are now nearly seven times [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

yahoo news Singapore is known for its greenery but it may soon be recognised for its blue — as in blue water. : Recently finished after about three years of construction, the 240-million Singapore dollar (176 million US) Marina Barrage will create a new source of precious water in a city-state with almost no natural [...]

independent.co.uk It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and [...]

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 [...]

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,” [...]

reefrelief.org The Florida Legislature passed a bill yesterday to end a decade’s old practice of dumping poorly treated sewage off Florida’s southeast coast. The House of Representatives passed the Wastewater Disposal Bill (HB 7139), created earlier by the Senate (SB 1302), with just two days left in the session. : The bill requires all facilities [...]