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23 July 2008: New Coral Bleaching Prediction System
A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year... |
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15 July 2008: 'Alarming' plight of coral reefs
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. |
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11 July 2008: Danger to coral reefs
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. |
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19 June 2008: Sun lotions help to kill coral reefs
Tourists heading to the tropics were warned yesterday that their suntan lotion can kill off one of the main attractions of their holiday - the colourful corals that thrive in warmer waters. |
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10 May 2008: Everything's coming up corals
Two University of Miami (UM) students have received prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their doctoral work on coral reefs. |
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21 April 2008: Coral spawn turns Palau pink
The annual mass spawning of corals on the Palau archipelago in the western Pacific has occurred right on cue. With Sunday night's full moon, coral polyps let forth a huge swathe of sperm and egg, to seed the next generation. |
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17 April 2008: Eritrean coral 'hope for global marine future'
Silver bubbles pop to the surface as a snorkeler glides over a colourful coral reef, bright fish speeding to safety in its protective fronds. Experts say this small Horn of Africa nation has some of the most pristine coral reefs left... |
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16 April 2008: Nuked coral reef bounces back
What does a coral reef look like 50 years after being nuked? Not so bad, it seems. Coconuts growing on Bikini Atoll haven't fared so well, however. |
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08 April 2008: Microbes implicated in coral reefs' death
Climate change is often cited as the cause of the death of some of the world's coral reefs but a new study says other factors are equally to blame. |
