News tagged with baby corals

Carbon dioxide affecting fish brains: study

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous systems of sea fish, with serious consequences for their survival, according to new research.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 15

You don't call, you don't write: Connectivity in marine fish populations

Children of baby boomers aren't the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents how larval ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Transplanted coral growing fast in lagoon off Okinawa coast

Baby coral transplanted in the Sekisei coral-reef lagoon in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture under a coral-reef regeneration program are growing steadily, according to the Environment Ministry and the Tokyo University of Marine ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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A spoonful of sugar or a bitter blocker?

Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electricity sparks new life into Indonesia's corals

Cyanide fishing and rising water temperatures had decimated corals off Bali until a diver inspired by a German scientist's pioneering work on organic architecture helped develop a project now replicated worldwide.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

'Fishy lawnmowers' help save Pacific corals

Can fish save coral reefs from dying? UC Santa Barbara researchers have found one case where fish have helped coral reefs to recover from cyclones and predators.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Data revealing migrations of larval reef fish vital for designing networks of marine protected areas

Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully planned, taking into account the open ocean migrations of marine fish larvae that take them from one home to another sometimes hundreds of kilometers ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Glowing squid thrive in symbiotic relationship

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria generally have a bad reputation – they’re good only for causing disease, and are best avoided. But Spencer Nyholm of the molecular and cell biology department in the College ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ocean acidification leaves clownfish deaf to predators

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Industrial Revolution, over half of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels has been absorbed by the ocean, making pH drop faster than any time in the last 650,000 years and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Effects of El Nino land South Pacific reef fish in hot water

Unseasonal warm temperatures caused by El Niтo have a profound effect on the fish populations of coral reefs in the South Pacific, scientists have found. An international team of biologists studied ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marine Pied Piper leads Nemo astray

The growing amount of human noise pollution in the ocean could lead fish away from good habitat and off to their death, according to new research from a UK-led team working on the Great Barrier Reef.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Carbon emissions threaten fish populations

Humanity's rising CO2 emissions could have a significant impact on the world's fish populations according to groundbreaking new research carried out in Australia.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Baby corals dance their way home

(PhysOrg.com) -- Baby corals find their way home in their first days as free-swimming larvae by listening to the noise of animals on the reef and actively swimming towards it, an international team of researchers ...

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created May 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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