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• Fall Reef

  
  World Market Portraits — Authority: 119
  I have been wanting to make some new reefs for my entry door and ventured out into craft land, otherwise also know as "Micheals" for some serious supply craft supplies shopping. When one of my friends heard what I was planning, she asked if she could join me and we turned it into a lovely afternoon of ...
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• Big profit from nature protection

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital. The Economics of ...
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• Sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that sponges recycle carbon to give life to coral reefs.The research was conducted by Jasper De Goeij, the student of marine biologist Fleur Van Duyl from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.Traveling to the Dutch Antilles with ...
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• Marine & Coastal Access Act a black day for marine environment

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  ForArgyll has recently written about the marine bills working their way through the Parliaments of Westminster and Holyrood. The Marine and Coastal Access Bill is the English and Welsh version which was given Royal Assent yesterday (12th November). If you were to believe the government spin surrounding it you could be ...
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• A hundred to one

  
  The Book of Barely Imagined Beings — Authority: 428
  If we were to expand marine protection from less than 1% to 30%, say, what would that cost? Establishing reserves, policing them and so on, would cost about $40-50bn per year - and the annual benefit would be about $4-5 trillion. -- says Pavan Sukdev, study leader of TEEB. The study also finds the ongoing loss of ...
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• Economic Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity — New Report

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  A new report, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), attempts to bring to the world’s attention the truly great economic value of ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the benefits of taking these into account when making policies. The value of the world’s natural ecosystems and biodiversity is ...
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• Economic Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity — New Report

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  A new report, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), attempts to bring to the world’s attention the truly great economic value of ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the benefits of taking these into account when making policies. The value of the world’s natural ecosystems and biodiversity is ...
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• Countries that invest in conservation will see higher financial returns, argues report

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 140
  A new report issued by the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative makes a strong case for valuing the planets ecosystem services. The report calls for investments in "ecological infrastructure" to protect wildlands and the services they provide; market-based valuation of ecosystem services; ...
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• Aquarium Disaster issue of Reefs Magazine is here to teach you something

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 142
  Aquarium disasters are a fact of life for all aquarium keepers and although this dark underbelly of the hobby often gets swept under the rug, the Fall 2009 issue of Reefs Magazine tackles the issue head on. From trying to pinpoint what is going wrong with a tank, to the dramatic measures we take to resuscitate an ...
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• Reefs Magazine Fall Issue, An Aquatic Disaster

  
  glassbox-design.com — Authority: 428
  The Fall 2009 issue of Reefs Magazine is now available and it is truly an aquatic disaster. Editor Randy Donowitz has put together an interesting series of article that are insightful–yet depressing. From the editor’s note:“My tank too has been causing me some sleepless nights, though it seems as though disaster ...
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• First in India, University Offers Scuba Diving Course

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 157
  Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) : Scuba diving is much more than an adventure water sport. Realising this, a university is offering, for the first time in India, a certificate course in scuba diving for marine biologists and researchers to study the impact of global warming on marine life. The 15-day course offered by the ...
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• BARNEY AND NICKY’S NEVER-ENDING CARBON PARTY

  
  REAL DIRT — Authority: 113
  This week we had the spectacle of climate-denier-politicians Barney Joyce and Nicky Minchin (Nobel prize-winning scientists and philosophers that they aren’t) telling us everyone else with a doctorate and a brain is wrong and that they are right. Humans have nothing to do with climate change, they say. We actually ...
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• Hawaii turtles recovering from severe tumor disease

  
  Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment — Authority: 111
  The debilitating tumor disease that racked Hawaiian green sea turtle populations starting in the 1950s appears to have declined since its peak, and some individual turtles seem to be able to overcome it. Its a hopeful sign in the upbeat story of turtle recovery in the Islands. (Image: A healthy green sea ...
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• Drastic action may save reefs

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  University of South Australia, Science Alert 12 Nov 09;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).Professors Charlie Veron (former Chief Scientist, Australian ...
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• Could the real value of artificial reefs be real estate revitalization? (not decent waves)

  
  Oceans Waves Beaches — Authority: 125
  I recently read yet one more piece on the Bournemouth artificial reef in the United Kingdom. There is plenty in the piece that meshes well with my series on this subject. Net net, the success of the reef from a surfing perspective is very questionable. But as I read the piece I found myself doing the equivalent ...
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• Dude, Where’s My Shoreline!?

  
  Green Living — Authority: 119
  Recently a G-20 economic summit was hosted by the United States of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss, among other things, the global economy, a growing global credit crisis, and ideas to stimulate the global economy to turn itself around.  The G-20 is a group of 19 industrialized nations plus the ...
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• Coral Reefs

  
  :: Delhi Greens :: — Authority: 415
  This day of 14th November also known as Bal Deen is the birthday of  Chacha Nehru our first prime minister and to put it in the current context Rahul Gandhi’s great grand father. Continuity, complexity of relationships, and interrelatedness to the web of life is the celebration.Beautifully done film festival called ...
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• Coral reef troubles indicate broader ecological problems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 140
  Today, many of our planets natural areas are seriously threatened by human incursion, overexploitation and global warming: Less than a fifth of the worlds original forest cover remains in unfragmented tracts, while just one-third of coastal mangroves survive to protect coastlines from storms and erosion. But none of ...
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• A boat, a good wind, and a blast of enthusiasm: Our correspondent reports from the Sulu Sea

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 556
  Adelle Horler, lucky girl, is currently at sea with the Mike Horn Pangaea Expedition. The good ship Pangaea, skippered by veteran explorer Mike Horn, is currently off the coast of Borneo while its crew of young explorers – drawn from communities around the world – are busy with projects that are a small but ...
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• Coral reef scientist slams Brumby over reckless vandalism

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 573
  Melissa Fyfe, The Age 9 Nov 09;One of the worlds leading coral reef scientists has slammed the Brumby Governments proposal to export Victorias brown coal to India as "reckless vandalism".John "Charlie" Veron, who discovered a quarter of the worlds identified coral species, said any move to export the states vast ...
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