Study: Sea's Thermostat Protects Reefs

Some coral reefs may be protected from global warming by a natural thermostat that regulates sea-surface temperatures in the open ocean, researchers said Wednesday.

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Survey: Madagascar Coral Reefs Damaged

A new survey of coral reefs along Madagascar's southwestern coast found massive damage from coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures, researchers said Thursday.

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Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital.

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Nestled within the new Pacific Remote Islands Marine Monument lies Palmyra Atoll, one of the last pristine coral reefs left on the planet some 960 nautical miles south of Hawaii. Or near pristine. In 1991 a 100-foot longline fishing ship—the "Hui Feng No.

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After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef ecosystems around the world.

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This fascinating video discusses evolution, mathematics, sea slugs, corals and crocheting as presented by science writer Margaret Wertheim.

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Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006. That year high sea temperatures caused massive and severe coral bleaching in the Keppel Is …

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I found this article to be AWESOME! etc.

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The Bush administration is going to implement three massive marine reserves in US territories in the Pacific today. The move will protect some of the regions most remote coral reefs. Excellent news for marine conservation.

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Danger signals from Great Barrier Reef

I'm a professor of marine ecology an UNC Chapel Hill and have been working on coral reef ecology and conservation for nearly twenty years. But I only recently became aware of the threat to reefs posed by ocean acidification.

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Another victim of global warming......

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The disaster in south Florida is invisible from above water but the damage is horrific. Hundreds of yards of sensitive coral reefs, part of the largest such ecosystem in the United States, have been sliced through by boats in two incidents over the last month.

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Excerpt: I teach a course in marine biology at a college in central Maine. Marine biology is one of those whizzbang courses that students are attracted to because of all the talk of sharks, coral reefs, and dolphin communication.

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Emissions of carbon dioxide are making seawater so acidic that reefs including the Great Barrier Reef off Australia could begin to break up within a few decades, research by the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University in California suggests. [snip] Oceanographers Long Cao …

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It was long time known that coral reefs are in an increased danger of extinction because of the effects that the increase in water temperatures pose for them, but scientist have found one new and perhaps even harder to avoid reason for concern: the acidifying water of the oceans.

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Half of U.S. coral reefs are in poor or fair condition, threatened by climate change and human activities like sports fishing, shipping and the release of untreated sewage, a U.S. government report said on Monday.

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Follow a month-long science expedition to discover new fish species, more corals than anywhere else in the world, endangered turtles and other sea life new to science.

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A single colony of coral could grow for several hundred years, recording changes in concentrations of trace elements as sea temperatures rose and fell, he said.

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Researchers who studied a string of Pacific Ocean atolls are painting the first detailed picture of pristine coral reefs and how they can be disrupted by people — particularly, they said, by fishing.

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The future for corals does not look bright. That's the message from the first in-depth analysis of 2005's widespread coral bleaching in the Caribbean.

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It's 10:39 a.m. on an overcast Tuesday when the skipper points his 40-foot pontoon boat toward a trio of islands off southern Bali. As he clears Benoa Harbor, he opens the throttle on three 250-horsepower outboards. Some guidebooks say the crossing takes 90 minutes.

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Rising carbon emissions might kill off the ocean's coral reefs by 2050, scientists warn in today's edition of the journal Science. The review article, co-authored by 17 marine scientists in seven countries, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is …

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Well-managed, locally-supported marine reserves in the Asia-Pacific region significantly help in reducing poverty and enhancing the quality of life for residents of local communities, according to a new study, which provides tangible evidence that these investments bring about me …

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With the world's coral reefs in crisis, the author's childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas

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Is Florida already feeling the early effects of global warming? Can we safely say that Florida is sinking into the ocean? The rumors I heard as a child, that such a thing could happen, seemed like folklore.

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Coral reefs in much of the Pacific Ocean are dying faster than thought, with little difference between well-protected and poorly managed areas, says a study released Wednesday.

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Successful reef conservation in Hawaii: Seventeen years after the city imposed strict restrictions on human activities in Hanauma Bay, the reefs are regenerating along the sides and more than 200 varieties of marine animals can be seen in the clear ocean waters.

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