NCSE Launches a new OCEAN-OIL (Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking – Oil Interdisciplinary Learning) project. OCEAN-OIL will be a comprehensive online teaching resource on the oil disaster and its impacts on the Gulf of Mexico. This project has been developed in collaboration with Boston and Louisiana State Universities with National Science Foundation funding. Check […]
CNN-October 20th, 2010 Coral reefs are dying around the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia at rates that may be the worst ever recorded, scientists said this week. Death rates as high as 80 percent have been recorded for some species, according to the study performed by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2010) — International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions. Read the full article
Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death there. Abnormally warm water since June appears to have dealt a blow to shallow and deep-sea corals that is likely to top the devastation of 2005, when 80% of corals were bleached and as many as 40% died in […]
Sarasota, FL – On Wednesday, Oct. 13, scientists with Mote Marine Laboratory released corals of four species at two sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The release, permitted by Sanctuary officials and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is designed to test the feasibility of using corals grown in land-based raceways and recirculating […]
This is the fourth cruise in a four-year project to discover and characterize deep-water coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico, to conduct a variety of experiments and analyses that will help us to predict where other communities will be found, and to understand why we find them where we do. Read more about NOAA’s […]
Story on Democracy Now!, a daily independent radio and TV news program: Should an oil giant responsible for the worst spill in US history play a role in what public school children learn about the environment? Well, if you’re in California, there’s a good chance they will. BP has helped develop the new environmental curriculum […]
By, Rudy Bonn Reef Relief’s Director of Marine Projects When most people consider Climate Change, they fail to realize that most of Earth’s climate is significantly influenced by the salt water ocean that covers approximately 72% of the Earth’s surface to an average depth of over two miles. Winds, currents, precipitation, and other natural phenomenon […]
Reef Relief Events, November 1 – 7 Reef Relief Environmental Center Open House Monday – Friday 11/1-11/5 Reef Relief will host a week long “Explore the Reef” Open House, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm, at the Reef Relief Environmental Center at 631 Greene Street in Key West, behind the Conch Republic Seafood Company. The […]
Friday, 08 October 2010 – ARC Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies The “turtle and dugong capital of the world”, the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and Torres Strait region, faces increased pressure under climate change from human actions such as fishing, hunting, onshore development and pollution. Read the full article