Coral Reef Fact: The Gulf of Mexico is known to have 21 marine mammal species “ all are protected, and six (sperm, sei, fin, blue, humpback and North Atlantic right whales) are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.” Fact source:http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/oil-spill/affected-gulf-resources/ Join Reef Relief today & help protect our marine environment, go to reefrelief.org/act/donate
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 April 2011 11.46 BST Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials discussing how to influence the work of scientists A clean-up operation on Queen Bess Island, June 2010. BP pledged a $500m fund for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of […]
From tiny coral polyps grew a marvel: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Could it all come crumbling down? National Geographic, May 2011 By Jennifer S. Holland Photograph by David Doubilet Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives, parrotfish teeth grind against rock, crab claws snap as they battle […]
Coral Reef Fact: Nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum ) are nocturnal hunters. They spend the daylights hours in large groups resting in the reef or under ledges. It has been observed that they have favorite resting sites. Fact source: Wikipedia Join Reef Relief today & help protect our marine environment, go to reefrelief.org/act/donate
13 April 2011 | Nature 472, 152-154 (2011) |by, Mark Schrope The Gulf of Mexico oil spill set records for its size and depth. A year on, the biggest impacts seem to be where they are hardest to spot. Late last year, oceanographers prowling the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico came upon what […]