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A blue coral is seen underwater in Nusa Penida

Fight to save the 'Amazon of the oceans'

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

With its pleasure boats dipping on the horizon and clustered tourist restaurants, the Indonesian island of Nusa Lembongan looks little like the edge of a great wilderness.


Coral Reefs

Reef boom beats doom

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.


Shape-shifting coral evade identification

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created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The evolutionary tendency of corals to alter their skeletal structure makes it difficult to assign them to different species. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have used genetic marker ...





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Group threatens to sue U.S. over corals

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 13, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An environmental group is threatening to sue the U.S. government for failing to draw up a plan to protect two coral species newly listed as endangered.


New DNA array sheds light on coral disease

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The answer to what's killing the world's coral reefs may be found in a tiny chip that fits in the palm of your hand.


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Isopora or isn't it? Mistaken identity leads researchers to two new extinct species of coral

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What began as an homage to achievement in the field of coral reef geology has evolved into the discovery of an unexpected link between corals of the Pacific and Atlantic. Dr. Ann F. Budd from the University ...


Researcher finds first ever evidence of natural disease resistance in corals

Researcher discovers corals resist disease

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created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, tropical coral reefs have become drastically altered by disease epidemics. In a new study published by PLoS ONE, lead author Steven V. Vollmer, assistant professor of biology ...


Changing sexes on the sea floor

Changing sexes on the sea floor

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Trees do it. Bees do it. Even environmentally stressed fish do it. But Prof. Yossi Loya from Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology is the first in the world to discover that Japanese sea corals engage ...


WWF said climate change could wipe out the world's richest ocean wilderness by the end of the century

Coral Triangle could die by century's end: WWF

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Coral reefs could disappear entirely from the Coral Triangle region of the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century, threatening the food supply and livelihoods for about 100 million people, according to a ...


New deep-sea coral discovered

New deep-sea coral discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral discovered on a NOAA-funded mission in the deep waters of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Six of these species ...


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 ...


Rare corals breed their way out of trouble

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created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Rare corals may be smarter than we thought. Faced with a dire shortage of mates of their own kind, new research suggests they may be able to cross-breed with certain other coral species to breed themselves out of a one-way ...


Coral face 'a stormy future'

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created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 1

As global warming whips up more powerful and frequent hurricanes and storms, the world's coral reefs face increased disruption to their ability to breed and recover from damage.



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