The Guardian, Wednesday 5 January 2011 Researchers have tracked ‘nature’s ancient mariners’ as they spend several months traveling from Africa to South America On 2 February 2009, at 4am, a turtle known as Tika set off from the coast of Gabon, west Africa. She spent almost six months swimming across the Atlantic, a 5,000-mile (8,000km) […]
By Morgan Erickson-Davis, mongabay.com January 05, 2011 A new study investigating the ability of coral to record sea temperatures indicates that the Northwestern Atlantic has experienced unprecedented warming during the past 150 years Read the full article
Tuesday, November 30, 2010, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Read the full article Scientists fear the planet is on the brink of another mass extinction as ocean dead zones continue to grow in size and number. More than 400 ocean dead zones — areas so low in oxygen that sea life cannot survive — have been reported […]
ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2010) — Global biodiversity surveys over the past few years have provided increasing evidence that our planet is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction. Plants, animals, and microorganisms are disappearing thousands of times more rapidly than they have for more than 65 million years, and for the first time in […]
Science Daily (Dec. 16, 2010) — Results of a five-year monitoring effort to repair seagrass damaged in a boat grounding incident suggest that restoration techniques such as replanting seagrass can speed recovery time. The finding is included in a new report released December 16 by NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. Read the full article […]
by, Jeremy Hance mongabay.com November 10, 2010 “We have a very good scientific understanding of what causes reefs to decline—what we now need is a clearer picture of how to help them back onto the reverse trajectory,” says lead author, Terry Hughes from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2010) — A major new study that sounds a conservation alarm for the world’s vertebrate species notes that the world’s seagrass species are faring somewhat better, says a University of New Hampshire researcher who was a coauthor of the study. Read the full story
ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2010) — Seeing a child or a dog play is not a foreign sight. But what about a turtle or even a wasp? Read the full article
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 […]
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 […]