From the monthly archives: June 2009

"Future protection of the oceans could lie in the past"

By On June 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If we don’t know our history, then we can’t know our future. Historians arguing the relevance of their subject often repeat that mantra. But one group of researchers is showing how true it is. Members of the History of Marine Animals Project (HMAP) believe that scrutinizing the minutiae of historical documents is the key to protecting our oceans for generations to come.

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Testing the 'macroalgal dominated coral reefs' paradigm

By On June 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The paradigm of ‘coral vs algae’ has become entrenched in coral reef science over the last few decades. The classic example of this paradigm in the Caribbean was from a paper published byTerry Hughes in a 1994 article in the journal Nature, entitled “Catastrophes, Phase Shifts and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef”. The [...]

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Ocean acidification an 'underwater catastrophe'

By On June 1, 2009 · 2 Comments

‘Climate change is turning our seas acidic, academies warn’ - Reuters News, May 31st 2009

Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday.

Seventy academies from [...]

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