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Coral Reefs And Climate Change: Microbes Could Be The Key To Coral Death
April 1, 2008 — Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global warming, according to scientists. Tropical ... > full story -
Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming
March 24, 2008 — Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to "junk food" -- and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it. This curious ... > full story -
Rabbit Fish To The Rescue Of The Reef
March 19, 2008 — While rabbits continue to ravage Australia's native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction. The reason, say scientists, is the same in both cases ... > full story -
Breath Of The Ocean Links Fish Feeding, Reefs, Climate
March 6, 2008 — An ocean odor that affects global climate also gathers reef fish to feed as they "eavesdrop" on events that might lead them to food. DMSP is given off by algae and phytoplankton, microscopic ... > full story -
Tiny Polyps Need Two Kinds Of Carbon To Survive Coral Bleaching
March 4, 2008 — How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae ... > full story -
Dissolved Organic Matter In Water Column May Influence Coral Health
March 4, 2008 — Bacterial communities endemic to healthy corals could change depending on the amount and type of natural and man-made dissolved organic matter in seawater. Healthy corals naturally exude a ... > full story -
From Sharks To Microbes, Key Data At Central Pacific's Line Islands Archipelago Captured
February 25, 2008 — An ambitious expedition to a chain of little-known islands in the central Pacific Ocean has yielded an unprecedented wealth of information about coral reefs and threats from human activities. The ... > full story -
Butterfly Fish 'May Face Extinction'
February 25, 2008 — A beautiful black, white and yellow butterflyfish, much admired by eco-tourists, divers and aquarium keepers alike, may be at risk of extinction, scientists have warned. The case of the chevroned ... > full story -
Living Corals Thousands Of Years Old Hold Clues To Past Climate Changes
February 14, 2008 — New research shows that the second most diverse group of hard corals first evolved in the deep sea, and not in shallow waters. This finding contradicts a long-established theory suggesting that ... > full story -
World's Largest Marine Protected Area Created In Pacific Ocean
February 14, 2008 — The small Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become a global conservation leader by establishing the world's largest marine protected area -- a California-sized ocean wilderness of pristine coral ... > full story
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