by Admin | Aug 4, 2019 | Conservation
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...
by AquaNerd | Aug 3, 2019 | Conservation, Reef
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 Gallos, and Camaronera – earlier this month. Leonardo Ortiz Lozano, a researcher with University of Veracruz, made the discovery along with his colleagues, Earther reported. Like many of the coral reef regions, the corridor provides a habitat for many species that fuels a diverse ecosystem. As you might expect, this recent discovery is currently unprotected but the scientists that discovered the corridor want to change that before it becomes threatened from oil and gas drilling. “We want the coral corridor to be officially
by Admin | Jul 22, 2019 | Conservation
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.…
by Admin | Jul 4, 2019 | Conservation, Fish
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...
by xeniaforever | Jun 17, 2019 | Conservation, Corals
The northern Red Sea between Africa and Asia has acted as a “thermal refugia” that protects marine life from imminent destruction
by Afishionado | Jun 14, 2019 | Aquaculture, Conservation, Corals, Video
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.…
