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• Scientists call for urgent ‘global cooling’ to save coral reefs

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  UQ News , 8th November 2009 Australian marine scientists have issued an urgent call for massive and rapid worldwide cuts in carbon emissions, deep enough to prevent atmospheric CO2 levels rising to 450 parts per million (ppm). In the lead up to United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Professors Charlie ...
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• Ocean acidification and coral reproduction on the Great Barrier Reef

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  “ Taking the acid test on the Great Barrier Reef “, National Times, 9th November 2009 Unlike some sexual processes in the animal world, coral reproduction remains a rather magical and mysterious event. And Dr Selina Ward loves it. The thousands of little red bundles of eggs and sperm are, she says, ...
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• Philippines is one of National Geographic’s best new travel destinations

  
  PinoyBusiness.ORG - Home — Authority: 136
  Contrary to travel advisories some countries are giving their residents against going to the Philippines, the National Geographic Magazine has included our country in the list as “One of 25 Best New Travel Destinations in the World in 2010.” The Philippines’ ancient cultures, structures and biodiversity were ...
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• Technical Diving & Camerawork

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 428
  The underwater world is a challenging one: both physiologically and psychologically. As a complex organism, all of our body’s vital biochemical processes have evolved over millions of years to a narrow set of pressures and temperatures that exist on the surface of the earth: where the human body has been designed to ...
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• Corals likely to starve in a high CO2 world

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  This is a little late in posting, but here is a video from a few weeks ago on Australia’s Channel 7 national news interviewing Alicia Crawley , a PhD student from my lab on the impacts of CO2 and ocean acidification on photosynthesis in corals. In a nutshell, Alicia’s research indicates that under higher CO2 ...
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• Online Reefs (Part 2): Darwin and the ‘reef problem’ in the XXI century

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  In the second part of a series of videos and lectures on coral reefs and climate change (Online Reefs) is Dr Roberto Iglesias Prieto . Roberto is a lead research scientist at the Unidad Academia Puerto Morelos in Mexico, who has a long and distinguished career investigating the symbiont responses to coral stress. ...
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• Preservation of coral reefs: why isn’t the majority heard?

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  A recent study done by the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii shows that majority of people visiting the coral reefs in Hawaii deeply care about their protection.  This might not be surprising due to the large amount of money that tourism brings to the economy of Hawaii, and with over 80% of those ...
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• Saving Seahorses, Conserving Corals

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 110
  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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• Study Shows Coral Spawning Depends on Wind; Makes Local Conservation Imperative

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Photo via Paul and Jill With the future of corals looking grim - grim enough for a proposal to start freezing them for future reintroduction - its more important than ever to understand what corals need for healthy reproduction. The synchronization behind coral spawning has always been a bit of a mystery. Lunar ...
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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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• “The only way to save our reefs is to freeze them.”

  
  Matador Change — Authority: 125
  Photo: ctenophor e Climate change specialists resign themselves to the possibility that it may be too late to save our reefs. Well, this is a depressing way to start your Thursday. As if the news of glacial melt and polar bear deaths wasn’t enough to make you want to crawl into a hole until the ...
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• From Long Island to the Solomon Islands, Communities Tackle Climate Change

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 533
  As UN negotiators from around the world gather in Barcelona this week to continue hammering out a global climate deal , the question of emissions reduction targets has grabbed center stage in the press. But even if all countries stopped emitting greenhouse gas pollution today, the impacts of climate change will be ...
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• 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: 533
  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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• Cryogenic reefs

  
  Climate Shifts — Authority: 126
  I must admit I hadn’t thought of this one -apparently the Zoological Society of London is proposing the world’s first ‘cryobank’ for corals (similar to the Millenium Seed Bank project). According to news reports, the proposal is to preserve samples of coral in liquid nitrogen, allowing them to be ...
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• Aerial Photos Show off Hawaii’s Spectacular Beaches and Attractions

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 150
  HONOLULU, Oct. 29, 2009 — When it comes to vacation planning, Hawaii visitors have a massive appetite for beach information. Now HawaiiGaga.com, one of Hawaii’s premier travel Web sites, has partnered with Hawaiian Images Photography and Video to supplement its panoramic beach and attraction pictures with aerial ...
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• As Corals Kick the Bucket, Its Time to Freeze Them for Posterity

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Photo via Wildxplorer Coral reefs are dying, and despite our best efforts at conservation, many scientists think theres no stopping their decline. In a move on par with the creation of seed banks, scientists think its time to start freezing species specimens in case we need to clone them for future reefs. ... Read ...
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• The Best of Fast Company: OceanWorks International Airport, Health Care in the Developing World, and Global Warming PR Stunts

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  This week at Fast Company , we looked at a proposed offshore airport in San Diego, creative health care ideas for the developing world, global warming PR stunts, and the Bournemouth Reef.San Diego, California needs a bigger airport, but it doesnt have any space. The solution? Build a massive offshore airport , ...
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• Freezer plan bid to save coral

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  The prospects of saving the worlds coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future.
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• ‘Freezer plan’ bid to save coral

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 439
  Image via Wikipedia The prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. A meeting in Denmark took evidence from researchers that most coral reefs will not survive even if tough regulations on greenhouse gases are ...
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