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New models to predict coral bleaching

(Phys.org) -- Curtin University researchers have used computational fluid dynamics and powerful supercomputers to create new models for understanding and predicting coral bleaching.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global warming threat to coral reefs: Can some species adapt?

Coral reefs are among the ecosystems most severely threatened by global warming, but hopeful new evidence has emerged that some coral species may be able to adapt to warmer oceans.

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created Mar 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Corals can sense what's coming

Australian scientists have thrown new light on the mechanism behind the mass death of corals worldwide as the Earth's climate warms.

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Limited iron availability shown to exacerbate coral bleaching

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely held that coral bleaching occurs when temperatures and solar radiation are high, overwhelming antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and their coral hosts. Little understood ...

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created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cutting fishing could buy time for coral reefs

Stopping people fishing around Caribbean coral reefs by designating them legally protected marine reserves could help some of them survive the effects of a changing climate by more than 50 years.

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Caribbean reef ecosystems may not survive repeated stress

Coral reefs suffered record losses as a consequence of high ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean in 2005 according to the most comprehensive documentation of basin-scale bleaching to date. ...

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created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists say Asia's corals dying en masse

Coral reefs in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean are dying from the worst bleaching effect in more than a decade, Australian marine scientists said Tuesday.

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created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Smithsonian reports regional sea temperature rise and coral bleaching event in Western Caribbean

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Bocas del Toro Research Station and Galeta Point Marine Laboratory are reporting an anomalous sea temperature rise and a major coral bleaching event in the western ...

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created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Remote Hawaii atoll corals suffer some bleaching

(AP) -- Corals at remote atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian islands suffered some bleaching this summer as ocean temperatures rose to higher-than-normal levels for a couple of weeks, but they were spared the large-scale ...

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created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A tale of two atolls: Researchers study the impact of fishing on remote coral reefs

Coral reefs - kaleidoscopes of pink anemones and silver sharks - are the planet's most colorful ecosystems and among its most endangered, say marine scientists.

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created Jun 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Will coral reefs disappear?

This is the title of an upcoming symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual conference in San Diego, California. And it's a topic that should not be taken lightly.

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created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Discovery of the Jekyll-and-Hyde factors in 'coral bleaching'

Scientists are reporting the first identification of substances involved in the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation that changes harmless marine bacteria into killers that cause "coral bleaching." Their study appears ...

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The White Stuff: Marine Lab Team Seeks to Understand Coral Bleaching

(PhysOrg.com) -- With technology similar to that used by physicians to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, researchers from six institutions -- including the National Institute of Standards and ...

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created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coral bleaching increases chances of coral disease

Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral disease ...

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term recovery of reefs from bleaching requires local action to increase resilience

In the journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Professor Dr. Peter Glynn, and 2008 Pew Fellow for Marine Conservation and Assist ...

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created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 4


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