One of the many factors causing the global loss of reef building corals is anthropogenic climate change, which is slowly warming the world’s oceans. When summertime temperatures are warmer than usual, corals can die from “bleaching” and disease outbreaks. This in turn is devastating for the countless [...]
A new study just published in PLos One (Castillo et al 2010) indicates massive corals (Siderastrea sideria) on the outer reefs of the Belizean Barrier Reef are growing more slowly than they did during the early and middle 20th century.
Lead author Karl Castillo (a post doc in my lab) is from southern [...]
Did it swim into a ship? Does it have scoliosis? Do it’s peers tease it? The world wants to know!
Read about it here
The pristine or natural state of a population or community is called the baseline in conservation biology. A baseline serves as a guide for setting conservation and restoration targets. Unfortunately, scientists rarely have reliable information on baselines, because in most cases quantitative data are not collected until long after the resource has been modified. This [...]
Tropical cyclone Yassi is heading WSW at 21 mph with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts to 165 mph. This is a massive and severe store. It is going to rock the GBR and could cause massive flooding and destruction in northern Queensland. I hope for minimal damage to man and beast…
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As I heard from lots of friends Tuesday (I think I’m getting to be known in my community as being slightly obsessed about this topic!), Obama didn’t have much to say about climate change in his State of The Union speech (just like last year). This is a calculated strategy to avoid the [...]
Ove and I organized a session on climate change impacts on ocean ecosystems at the NCSE “Our Changing Oceans meeting” this week in Washington, DC.
Session summary: Rapidly rising greenhouse gas concentrations are driving ocean systems toward conditions not seen for millions of years, with an associated risk of fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation. Changes [...]
Given all the debunking we have done here on CS of the biased reporting on climate change and coral reef health coming from another Murdoch-owned rag, AKA The Australian, e.g., see here, here, here, and here, this isn’t surprising. And people continue to say that the publics misperceptions about climate change [...]
The National Council For Science and the Environment runs a big conference every year in Washington DC. This years theme is “Our Changing Oceans” and it is shaping up to be one of the most important ocean conservation conferences ever.
Some of the major speakers include:
Dr. Carl Safina, President, Blue Ocean Institute
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