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Coral Triangle could die by century's end: WWF
May 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Starfish strike at coral kingdom
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Jan 16, 2008 |
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Outbreaks of the notorious crown of thorns starfish now threaten the “coral triangle” – the richest center of coral reef biodiversity on Earth. That’s the finding of recent scientific surveys by the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
Starfish outbreak threatens corals
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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Outbreaks of the notorious crown of thorns starfish now threaten the “coral triangle,” the richest center of coral reef biodiversity on Earth, according to recent surveys by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation ...
Transplanted coral growing fast in lagoon off Okinawa coast
Feb 07, 2009 |
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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 ...
Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs
May 11, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists has proposed a set of basic rules to help save the world's imperiled coral reefs from ultimate destruction.
Fight to save the 'Amazon of the oceans'
May 10, 2009 |
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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.
Discovery of the Jekyll-and-Hyde factors in 'coral bleaching'
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Scientists are reporting the first identification of substances involved in the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation that changes harmless marine bacteria into killers that cause "coral bleaching." Their study appears ...
Shape-shifting coral evade identification
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
4 years after tsunami: Corals stage comeback
Dec 29, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout ...
'Super reefs' fend off climate change, study says
Apr 23, 2009 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a study showing that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually resilient to climate change due to improved fisheries management and a combination of geophysical factors. ...
Coral bleaching increases chances of coral disease
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral disease ...
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