Carnegie Institution researchers say coral reefs are overwhelmed by the effects of climate change, and may "disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acidic." (...

The involvement of locals is a key ingredient in the success of marine parks which protect coral reefs and fish stocks. The largest-scale study to date of how coastal communities influence successful outcomes in marine reserves has ...

Carnegie Institution researchers say coral reefs are being overwhelmed by the effects of climate change, and may "disintegrate before the end of the century as rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere make the oceans more acid...

Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today's human activity. Reef ecosystems were able to persist through massive envi...

Marine reserves are increasingly important for species that are being forced by climate change to move to a new home, adapt to new conditions or die. Biologists have now compared the relative benefits of large and small protected ar...

Rising acidity of the oceans is threat to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, new research shows.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is benefiting from marine reserve areas. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced there five years ago...

Corals that harbor unusual species of symbiotic algae have been discovered thriving in water that is too warm for most other corals. The discovery gives hope that coral reefs and the ecosystems they support may persist -- at least i...

How vulnerable are coral reefs to climate change due to higher ocean temperatures?

Deep-sea trawling is devastating corals and pristine marine habitats that have gone untouched since the last ice age, a leading marine biologist has warned....

Warmer ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to corals around the world.  Warmer waters typically kill the brown or green algae that a reef depends on for food, leading to bleaching and death of the reefs, but Penn State scientis...

Yesterday, Gateway Pundit highlighted how the Alarmists said Global Warming would decrease and increase the amount of fog in San Francisco. Now it is the coral reefs’ turn on the Merry-Go-Round: “The polar snap enveloping much of th...

Openly gay Illinois Senate candidate Jacob Meister drops out, endorses opponent. Illinois gubernatorial candidate Dan Hynes makes stop in Boystown. Hotel proposed for Alcatraz. "Overnight visitors would not stay in the main cell blo...

Coral reefs the world over have been taking a beating over the past few decades. Warming water temperatures and decreased pH levels have led to wide-scale bleaching of coral reefs and have decreased the corals' ability to produ...

Coral reefs the world over have been taking a beating over the past few decades. Warming water temperatures and decreased pH levels have led to wide-scale bleaching of coral reefs and have decreased the corals' ability to produ...

photo: Marc via flickr. Ocean acidification is only likely to be a growing problem in the coming years as the world's oceans continue to warm. One severe effect is the bleaching and death of coral reefs, one of the most biodiverse...

A new study by scientists in the UK provides the first evidence that coral reefs can recover from the devastating effects of climate change. The research shows for the first time that coral reefs located in marine reserves can recov...

A study of prehistoric coral reefs shows that these shallow-water congregations of corals, fish and shell fish aren’t just diversity magnets, they actually create new species. And that is worrisome news in the face of climate change...

James Delingpole has a great round-up of enranged warm-mongers furious at the "failure" of Nopenhagen/Copenhoaxin'. The Guardian's George Monbiot: Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rai...

After being a highly successful life form for 250 million years, disruptions in the biological and communication systems of coral reefs have been found to be the underlying cause of the coral bleaching and collapse of reef ecosystem...