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News stories for July 2008 Click the image or link to read the full story.

Coral jewellery trade threatens reefs
24 July 2008
Coral reef experts meeting in Florida last week said rising global temperatures and increases in ocean acidity are threatening to wipe out a third of the world's coral species by 2050.

New Coral Bleaching Prediction System
23 July 2008
A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year...

No-fishing zones studied
22 July 2008
Reeling in a 45-pound grouper used to be just an average day on the water in the Florida Keys.

More help urged for Hawaii's reef systems
21 July 2008
More and larger marine conservation areas and stronger enforcement of fishing regulations are needed to protect Hawaii's endangered coral reefs and fish populations, scientists say.

St Abbs leads the way
20 July 2008
St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve has been very successful in balancing conservation of marine life with economic growth for the past 24 years

Europe's first artificial reef
19 July 2008
Marine life off the South Coast is set to be enriched by Europe's first artificial surf reef, construction of which began today.

Territorial waters
18 July 2008
Conservation and economic growth tend to be difficult bedfellows, yet fishermen, environmentalists and renewable-energy generators have all welcomed the proposals for a Marine Bill for Scotland.

Sea die-out blamed on volcanoes
17 July 2008
Undersea volcanic activity has been blamed for a mass extinction in the seas 93 million years ago.

Victory for Scotsman to safeguard seas
16 July 2008
Scotland's seas today – marking a significant victory for The Scotsman's "Save Our Seas" campaign.

'Alarming' plight of coral reefs
15 July 2008
A third of the world's reef-building coral species are facing extinction. That is the stark conclusion from the first global study to assess the extinction risks of corals.

Japan charges Greenpeace for 'whale theft'
14 July 2008
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday two of its activists had been charged with stealing a box of whale meat while conducting a covert operation into suspected cases of embezzlement.

New Southern Atlantic Reef System
13 July 2008
Scientists announced the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state.

Experts tag jellyfish for study
12 July 2008
Scientists are tagging jellyfish to study their role in marine life off the Welsh and Irish coasts. Although consisting of 98% water and some being the size of dustbin lids, biologists say they are "tough, robust animals", making tagging possible.

Danger to coral reefs
11 July 2008
Like a tooth dipped in a glass of Coca-Cola, coral reefs, lobsters and other marine creatures could soon dissolve as climate change turns the oceans increasingly acidic.

Battle to save Cambodian dolphin
10 July 2008
Sun Mao leans forward in the boat, shades his eyes with his hand, and squints across the wide expanse of the Mekong River where it twists through the town of Kratie.

Rise In Dolphin, Whale, and Porpoise Deaths
09 July 2008
Four weeks since the shocking incident that led to the death of 26 dolphins near Falmouth, England, research sheds new light on the extent of the problems facing Cornwall's marine mammals.

G8 aims to halve greenhouse gases
08 July 2008
World leaders say they will aim to set a global target of cutting carbon emissions by at least 50% by 2050 in an effort to tackle global warming.

Diving spot murk threatens tourism
07 July 2008
Water quality at previously pristine diving spots is declining, posing a threat to tourism, dive specialists say.

Extinction risk 'underestimated'
06 July 2008
The risk of extinction for many species may have been seriously underestimated, according to new research published in the journal Nature.

Africa moves to stop fish theft
05 July 2008
African ministers are meeting in Namibia to discuss how to stop illegal and unregulated fishing.

Diver 2008 Project
04 July 2008
A group of Europe’s leading marine conservation and research organisations have joined forces to carry out further crucial research into some of the rarest and most elusive marine animals on the planet.

True cost of the ocean heist
03 July 2008
There is a kind of theft that happens every day in a majority of the world's poor countries - and in many of the richer ones too.

Register clears out 'fishy' names
02 July 2008
Huge numbers of fish and other marine organisms have been named several times over, say scientists trying to tidy up the system for cataloguing ocean life.

Study: Shark species face extinction
02 July 2008
The Mediterranean Sea shark population fell 97 percent in the past two centuries and 19 shark species face extinction, researchers have concluded.

Turtles return home
01 July 2008
Two loggerhead turtles, which were washed up on the south-west UK coast this winter, have been flown to Gran Canaria and released back into the sea.

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