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• Great Barrier Reef will be gone in 20 years, says Charlie Veron [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 428
  The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognisable within 20 years, an eminent marine scientist has said.Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, told The Times: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be ...
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• Studies Shed Light on Collapse of Coral Reefs [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 428
  An explosion of knowledge has been made in the last few years about the basic biology of corals, researchers say in a new report, helping to explain why coral reefs around the world are collapsing and what it will take for them to survive a gauntlet of climate change and ocean acidification.
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• New Research Ship To Paint The Red Sea Green

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 521
  Marine research on the Red Sea will be more serious, thanks to new ship. With pirates , environmental pollution, increasing water traffic and a collapse of coral reefs , a new research ship with its course set for the Red Sea port of Eilat is good news for us to hear. According to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, ...
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• Awe-inspiring island views from space

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  We are often captivated by the beauty of coral reefs from below the water’s surface but these awe-inspiring reefs are just as wonderful from space. WIRED put together a stunning photo montage of islands across the globe viewed from far above and we’ve brought some of these incredible images from coral reef zones ...
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• 13:40 - Fears the environmental impact of the West Atlas oil rig spill could last ten years... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 812
  Professor Justin Marshall from the Australian Coral Reef Society tells Shon Walker, the government need to impose tighter controls.
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• Saving Seahorses, Conserving Corals

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 113
  Good news today for ocean wildlife, here at home in the United States and overseas in Cambodia. In the U.S., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new pilot program -- backed up with money -- to protect coral reefs in...
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• The Caribbean is One of the Most Vulnerable Regions to Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean With less than two months to go before COP15, the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, TakePart continues to cover a breadth of relevant and compelling topics. One topic of particular interest to me is how climate change is impacting small island-states. Nations like the Maldives, for ...
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• Petition targets 83 coral species for U.S. endangered species list protection

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed on October 20, 2009, looks to use the powers of the Endangered Species Act to protect these corals identified as ...
  6 days ago

• Bullies of the Reef

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 116
  Climate change is affecting the oceans in surprising ways. Consider the latest research findings on an unexpected impact of coral reef bleaching: Damselfish that are literally being bullied to death. Scientists at Australias James Cook University found that younger, smaller...
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• Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 545
  My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing . The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were eating them. ...
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• Coral Cryobank being developed to preserve the diversity of threatened coral species

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  The Coral Cryobank is the first global effort to help preserve coral species from the world’s struggling reefs that is being spearheaded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The Coral Cryobank aims to protect the future of coral species diversity by placing corals in a deep freeze in liquid nitrogen. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Result of coral reef deaths: loss in billions of dollars

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 611
  Based on previous estimates, coral reefs are said to earn nearly $30 billion a year ‘by attracting tourists, protecting commercial fish species and protecting coasts from storm surges.’ A new study that further investigated the economic value of coral reefs suggests that ‘a single hectare of coral reef can be ...
  2 weeks ago

• CORAL REEF ADVENTURE (2003)

  
  Free Download — Authority: 545
  Coral Reef Adventure (2003) Coral Reef Adventure (2003) English | HD 720p | 1280x720 – 23.976fps – x264 | AC3 - 384kbps - 48kHz | 1 GB Genre: Documentary Take a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the South Pacific for a spectacular IMAX adventure. Joy, ecstasy, a spiritual high: these words describe the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Even reef fish like a good massage

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  Nothing beats a good spa treatment to erase the tension of a tough week at work—the manicure, pedicure, massage…the works. Reef fishes (and not just the females) know how to benefit from a little pampering at stations manned by cleaner wrasses—the wrasses set up shop in a particular spot on the reef (or your ...
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• Researchers Find Coral Reefs to be Worth $172 Billion

  
  glassbox-design.com — Authority: 130
  Researchers have released an interesting valuation study at the Diversitas Conference in Capetown, South Africa. The study aims to put a price tag on coral reefs–something that is much easier said than done. The study found that on average, one hectare (10,000 square meters) of coral reef provided humans with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smart Fish Learn, Discern, & Advertise their Services

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 127
  A series of studies has recently revealed that reef fish are surprisingly adaptable. Freshly caught wild fish quickly learn new tasks and can learn to discriminate among colors, patterns and shapes, including those they have never encountered.More Articles
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• First Hilton Hotel underway in Egypt’s Marsa Alam

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 130
  Hilton Worldwide has signed a Management Agreement with Concord Co. for Tourist Development S.A.E. for the first Hilton branded hotel in Marsa Alam, on the west coast of Egypt’s Red Sea. Marsa Alam is a popular holiday and diving destination, situated near the Tropic of Cancer attracting tourism with its diverse ...
  3 weeks ago

• Info for Gift Guides - Trend setting Bags for Nature Lovers

  
  Debra Cortese - Nature's Energy — Authority: 116
  Cortese Design bags are more than fashionable, they can energize you! Designer, Debra Cortese says, “When you carry one of my Nature’s Energy Design bags, and consciously tune in to the vibration of the plant that is at the core of the design, you can virtually ‘feel’ the positive, magical energy of nature.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• World’s coral reefs provide $1.2 mln annual services to every human, says Indian economist (Re-issue

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, October 18 (ANI): A preliminary research by an Indian economist has revealed jaw-dropping dollar values of the “ecosystem services” of biomes like forests and coral reefs to humans, rising to as much as 1.2 million dollars per hectare, per year.Undertaken to help societies make better-informed choices, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Maldives Government Hold Global Warming Meeting Underwater

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 426
  With fish darting amongst them in a blue lagoon, the Maldivian president and his top team have staged an elaborate stunt to publicise climate change.Billed as the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting, President Mohamed Nasheed and 11 ministers, decked in scuba gear, held a meeting 4m (13ft) underwater.While ...
  3 weeks ago

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