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Twenty Of World's 162 Grouper Species Threatened With Extinction
March 21, 2007 — The first comprehensive assessment of the world's 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or ... > full story -
Cultured Coral Could Help Repair Damaged Reefs
March 15, 2007 — 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 ... > full story -
New Species Of Snapper Discovered In Brazil
March 13, 2007 — A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic ... > full story -
Corals That Can Fight Global Warming May One Day Help Fragile Reefs
March 2, 2007 — Global warming is threatening corals, reported Cornell's Drew Harvell at the AAAS meeting February 18. But some corals can fight diseases as temperatures rise and may provide clues in how to protect ... > full story -
Imagery Shows Outer Great Barrier Reef At Risk From River Plumes
February 27, 2007 — A stunning series of satellite imagery of Australia's Great Barrier Reef released by the CSIRO shows for the first time visual confirmation of the theory that sediment plumes travel to the outer reef ... > full story -
Saving Disappearing Marine Resources Needs Both Scientific And Indigenous Knowledge
February 15, 2007 — Scientific and indigenous knowledge must join together to better manage disappearing marine resources in developing countries, such as shark, trochus, and sea cucumber stocks on the islands to ... > full story -
Plant-Grazing Fish Boost Resilience Of Coral Reefs Facing Stress
February 8, 2007 — By using cages to experimentally control the access of fish to coral reefs, researchers have assessed the role of fish "grazing" in the ability of reefs to successfully recover from potentially ... > full story -
Risk Of Extinction Accelerated Due To Interacting Human Threats
February 7, 2007 — The simultaneous effect of habitat fragmentation, overexploitation, and climate warming could accelerate the decline of populations and substantially increase their risk of extinction, a study ... > full story -
Baby Fish 'Smell Their Way Home'
January 22, 2007 — Marine scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have uncovered evidence that baby fish, only millimetres long, manage to find their way to their home coral reef across miles of open sea ... > full story -
There's No Scent Like Home: New Research Shows Larval Fish Use Smell To Return To Coral Reefs
January 8, 2007 — New research from MBL scientists and their colleagues shows that some fish larvae can discriminate odors in ocean currents and use scent to return to the reefs where they were born. The olfactory ... > full story
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