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Major losses for Caribbean reef fish in last 15 years

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By combining data from 48 studies of coral reefs from around the Caribbean, researchers have found that fish densities that have been stable for decades have given way to significant declines since 1995. The study appears ...





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2009 Hurricane Season Should Contain No Surprises, Researchers Say

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University believe that 2009 will bring a near-normal hurricane season, with storm activity in the Atlantic basin and the Gulf of Mexico slightly above the averages of ...


Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually

Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental change drives evolutionary change -- eventually

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Hungry, sexual organisms replaced well-fed, clonal organisms in the Caribbean Sea as the Isthmus of Panama arose, separating the Caribbean from the Pacific, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical ...


Caribbean coral reefs flattened

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been comprehensively 'flattened' over the last 40 years, according to a disturbing new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA).


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UN agency takes deadly storm names off list

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created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The World Meteorological Organisation on Wednesday struck the names of four deadly 2008 hurricanes from storm list because of the carnage they caused.


Caribbean Earthquake Model

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Arkansas and Purdue University have monitored tiny tectonic movements in the Caribbean to create the first comprehensive and quantitative kinematic model describing potential earthquake activity ...


Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.


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Researchers Say Outlook Indicates Active 2008 Hurricane Season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2008 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (12) | comments 8

According to researchers at North Carolina State University, the 2008 hurricane season looks to be an active one; however, the number of storms that will have the potential to make landfall is close to that ...


Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds

Global warming causes outbreak of rare algae associated with corals, study finds

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A rare opportunity has allowed a team of biologists to evaluate corals and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused ...


Experts think toxic algae harming endangered fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced ...


Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin

Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 ...



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