by Francis Yupangco | Oct 14, 2014 | Conservation, Corals, Fish, Science
This is an interesting article which seems counter-intuitive to what we would associate with the image of oil platforms. A new study from Occidental College, UC Santa Barbara, and the... by AquaNerd | Oct 14, 2014 | Corals, Science
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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 &... by Francis Yupangco | Oct 9, 2014 | Conservation, Corals, Science
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity has estimated that ocean acidification of coral reefs will cost approximately 1 trillion dollars by the year 2100. The report titled ‘An Updated Synthesis of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity’ came out... by Advanced Aquarist | Oct 9, 2014 | Advanced Aquarist, Corals, Invertebrates
Researchers collecting zoanthids from the Indo-Pacific realized that we haven't even come close to discovering all the zoa species. At least 9 of the 24 species they collected are undescribed. Even more remarkable, when they reviewed 600+ zoanthids collected as far back as the 1930s, they discovered many have yet to be formally examined. by AquaNerd | Oct 8, 2014 | Corals, Equipment, Events, Industry, Science
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