Caribbean Reef Buddy, a non-profit organization based on the island of Carriacou in the West Indies, has a slew of ongoing projects you can offer a helping hand to. Opportunities include reef monitoring, invasive-species (cough, lion fish, cough) monitoring &...
Vincent Callebaut has designed and proposed a 1,000-unit plug-in matrix for "The Pearl of the West Indies", inspired but the organic form of coral. The project, appropriately, if not bluntly named "the Coral Reef, is built upon seismic piers off the coast of the...
In light of Tasmanian warming heating up, Sydney's eight-armed sea-folk are packing up, heading south, and reproducing with a greater population turnover and greater growth rate. Talk about things heating up down there. The common Sydney Octopus (Octopus tetricus) ...
Well, maybe not the best day for EVERYONE, but it's a pretty damn good day for me - we're celebrating my favorite cephalopod of the deep today in honor of Octopus Awareness Day. Please, refer to this post I did the other day, and think twice before indulging in some...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has reached a final decision to award The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to the following individuals: Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan and Nagoya University, Japan, Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University, Japan...
"100G of Bliss, Crated and Shipped to your door!". Felix Bordon of Reef Savvy is at it again, donating a Reef Savvy™ 100Gg Limited Edition RedBottom Aquarium with all the bells and whistles to fight the good fight against childhood cancer. Better yet, this time around...
Well here's some seriously troubling, ass-backwards news for you today. In the face of what seems to be the greatest deterioration we've yet to see over the past five years of one of the world's most treasured reef systems, The Great Barrier Reef, Federal Government...
Here's some eye candy for you today. If you haven't yet stumbled upon Mark Strickland's underwater photography portfolio - go there. Go there now. This post will still be right here waiting for you when you get back (warning, make sure you have a good amount of time -...
Here's some positive news for you on the often believed bleak outlook for the health and survival of our beautiful coral reefs. A new longitudinal study from UC Santa Barbara California's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) gives us hope for...
Sadly, not all of them are alive. On a beach just outside the village of Point Lay of Southeast Alaska, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration snapped photographs depicting more than 35,000 walruses hauled to shore, including 36 of...