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
ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2010) — Whale feces — should you be forced to consider such matters — probably conjures images of, well, whale-scale hunks of crud, heavy lumps that sink to the bottom. But most whales actually deposit waste that floats at the surface of the ocean, “very liquidy, a flocculent plume,” says University of […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2010) — Hopes that coral reefs might be able to survive, and recover from, bleaching caused by climate change may have grown dimmer for certain coral species, according to new research by University at Buffalo marine biologists published this week in PLoS One. Read the full article
ScienceDaily (Oct. 13, 2010) — Researchers looking at corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean have found records linking a profound shift in the depth of the division between warm surface water and colder, deeper water traceable to recent global warming. Read the full article
This Sunday, 10/10/10, in every corner of the globe, groups will gather to support solutions to the climate change crisis. From solar panels to community gardens, wind turbines to bike workshops, we’ll start to change our world from the bottom up. Oceana will be sponsoring a Key West event to collect hand written letters to […]