The scourge of plastic in our oceans has received lot of publicity in recent years, especially in the UK where TV documentaries (notably the Blue Planet series) have brought the issue into the nation’s homes. It seems the country is doing well in saying ‘no’ to one of the major culprits, the [...]
Scientists have just discovered five new coral reefs that form a vast, 310-mile corridor in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists from the University of Veracruz and Mexico’s National Institute of Technology released their findings about the reefs – Corazones, Pantepec South, Piedras Altas, Los [...]
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been largely accepted as the standard way to protect marine biodiversity. However, a new study has shown that their benefit is even better than first suspected, and it all comes down to the size of the fish. I’ve dived in a number of MPAs, and in one in [...]
Various news agencies are reporting the first cull of lionfish in the Mediterranean, five years after the invasive species was first found off the coast of Cyprus. It is believed that a recent widening and deepening of the Suez Canal has made it easier for Lionfish to reach the Med from the [...]
The northern Red Sea between Africa and Asia has acted as a “thermal refugia” that protects marine life from imminent [...]
For this video, we headed to downtown Miami, Florida to visit Dr. Rivah Winter, the Inventor in Residence and Curator of Aquarium Content & Marine Science at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. On a personal level, I feel that this video may be the single most important video that [...]
MASNA is proud to announce that the Quarter 2, 2018 publication funded by the Dr. Junda Lin Memorial Fund for Publishing Open Access Marine Aquarium Research is now freely available to the public as an open access article. In 2017, MASNA introduced the Dr. Junda Lin Memorial Fund for [...]
The Horniman Museum and Gardens’ pioneering coral reproduction work, Project Coral (as seen on BBC One’s Blue Planet UK, yesterday), has this week taken a step closer to having real-world benefit for coral reef conservation, thanks to international partner The Florida Aquarium. Staff [...]