The deep, cold waters off the rocky coast of Point Sur, California, are home to an unexpected community of organisms that most people associate with tropical settings—corals. Scientist Charlie Boch and his colleagues recently ...
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Sep 19, 2019
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Super-corals from extreme reefs can acclimatize to temperatures much lower than their natural environment but struggle to cope with their home reefs becoming hotter due to climate change, according to a global research team ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2019
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The fate of the world's coral reefs could depend on how well the sea creatures equip their offspring to cope with global warming.
Environment
Sep 16, 2019
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New research into co-culturing—raising juvenile sea urchins alongside lab-spawned corals—has found the technique produces an eight-times-higher survival rate in young corals, and could have major implications for the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2019
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UNSW scientists have released a world-first framework for guiding the building and management of coastal infrastructure at a global scale. It is hoped that the framework—published today in journal BioScience—will influence ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2019
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When ocean temperatures rise, corals are put at risk of a phenomenon known as bleaching, in which corals expel the algae living in their tissues and turn white. Bleached corals are at increased risk of disease and death. ...
Environment
Aug 8, 2019
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For decades, overfishing and trawling devastated parts of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, wrecking deep-sea corals and destroying much of their ecological community.
Ecology
Aug 7, 2019
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If you think climate change is only gradually affecting our natural systems, think again.
Plants & Animals
Jul 26, 2019
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A new scientific paper co-authored by the University of Plymouth has said that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the global ocean, amid signs of steeper and faster ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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Climate change is the fastest-growing global threat to World Heritage. However, no systematic approach to assess the climate vulnerability of each particular property has existed—until now.
Environment
Jul 3, 2019
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