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Warm Water and El Niño Effect Killing Off Young Coral Reef Fish

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Warm Water and El Niño Effect Killing Off Young Coral Reef Fish

Photo by Joelk75 via Flickr Creative Commons Baby fish are getting the short end of the stick with warmer ocean temperatures, and populations of coral reef fish species could see a significant decline. A team of biologists looking at the arrival of young fish along the Rangiroa coral atoll in French Polynesia have found that fish populations are suffering as plankton, a major food source for the young fish, collapses with the warmer temperatures. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hawaiian Coral Saved by Freezing Sperm

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via University of Hawaii at Manoa, Credit: Virginia Carter As corals face a daily bashing through warm, polluted waters, the scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Smithsonian Institution are building up a bank of frozen sperm and embryos of Hawaiian coral species, just in … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Real Life Sea Monsters (Slideshow)

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via News.com.au It’s time to get out of the water. Not all the fish in the sea are as cute and lovable as Nemo and Dory: Some of them are downright monstrous. From two-foot-long isopods and eyeless crustaceans to the skeletal anglerfish and human-sized jellyfish, the deep waters of the world contain countless species that we know very little about. Here are 10 of the scariest — and sometimes gentlest — sea monsters in the oceans today.

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Melanin May Keep Corals Alive Through Climate Change

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via prilfish Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding how corals keep their immune systems strong — a breakthrough that could help scientists understand how corals can last through, or adapt to, global climate change. Warmer ocean temperatures, pollution, a loss of symbiotic species through overfishing and other stress factors weaken corals’ immune systems and make it difficult for them to recover from bleaching. However, the scientists have found that melanin, an important part of the immune system in invertebrates, may help… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mass Coral Killing Caused By Climbing Ocean Temperatures

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos via Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia is home to stunning coral reefs, but the only thing stunning about them right now is that they’re dying off at alarming rates after a sea surface temperature rise. The Wildlife Conservation Society just released a report detailing the wide-spread extent of the destruction that occurred in May at the northern tip of Sumatra, as their “Rapid Response Unit” of marine biologists investigated and discovered that over 60% of the corals were bleached…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Australia’s Moreton Bay Could Become a Coral Lifeboat

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Though ship traffic and pollution mean that Moreton Bay won’t be idyllic home, it might be just good enough to harbor the world’s threatened corals. Image credit: Cindy Andrie /Flickr Thanks to climate change, pollution, and ocean acidification, the fate of many of the world’s coral reefs is a good as sealed. This leaves biologists and conservationists with the troubling tasks of preservation —where possible—and rehabilitation. One possible solution is transp… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Thailand Attempts to Solve Overfishing By Dumping Tanks, Trains and Trucks into Sea (Video)

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It’s a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it’s all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing industry can be sustained. While skeptical at first, locals are also latching on to the idea. Video report after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coral Reefs More Diverse, and Fragile, Than Previously Thought

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Even coral that looks the same, new research shows, may be part of a completely different species. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Some types of coral are abundant across reefs—turning up in a wide range of depths. Researchers have long assumed that this demonstrated versatility of the species—something that could be useful when rebuilding reefs damaged by pollution, bleaching, and other climatic events. New research, however, has shown that these corals are not homogeneous. Instead, they consist of a variety of distinct and highly-specialized species—a finding that could have seriou… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transplanting Coral As a Cheap, Easy Way to Restore Reefs?

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via NOAA Could restoring damaged reefs be as easy as super gluing corals to new shelves and ledges? Perhaps so, according to research done by Dr. Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island, and a team of scientists, students and locals who worked to restore a dead reef in White Bay in the British Virgin Islands. After focusing on a specific variety of elkhorn coral often damaged during storms, they found that after transplanted, corals reattached themselves after three months and after 4 years had become large adult corals. Dr. Forrester thinks that perh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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