by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 17, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Science, Sustainability
Coral CoE is at it again trying to understand how human impact can effect change on coral reefs around the globe. Studying marine reserves in and around the Great Barrier Reef scientists “surveyed more than 80,000 corals around the Whitsunday Islands for six... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 17, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Science, Sustainability
Researchers from the University of Miami are perfectly placed to collect their recent findings supporting the need for human intervention when it comes to climate change and coral reefs. “For many years we have known that some types of symbiotic algae can convey... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 16, 2015 | Corals, Science, Sustainability, Tanks
It’s long been a theory of mine that corals exchange zooxanthellae within our aquariums to combat environmental stressors, and a new study proves this theory to be true in controlled systems as well as in the wild.… by Chris Maupin | Jun 11, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Science, Sustainability
In the boreal (Northern Hemisphere) Spring of 2014, warm waters began to appear at the surface of the equatorial East Pacific. This appearance caused much stir and speculation about the potential development of something we have not seen in nearly two decades now: a... by Kenneth Wingerter | Jun 8, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Sustainability
As if tensions between regional powers were not hot enough, a new issue of contention has emerged in the South China Sea. Recently, the Japanese government has denied Chinese fishermen shelter from a coming typhoon near the Ogasawara Islands, where Tokyo suspects many... by Chris Maupin | Jun 7, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Science, Sustainability
Tye Pettay and Todd LaJeunesse at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and others have published new work that does some unique finger-pointing. The genetic lineages of Symbiodinium trenchii from the Indo-Pacific have opportunistically invaded Caribbean...
