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Parrotfish Could Be Key to Saving Caribbean Coral Reefs

Posted by tvernile on Friday, 04 July 2014 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

-Kiribati, a Pacific island nation, recently purchased land on the Fijian island Vanua Levu in preparation for climate change. The president doesn’t expect to move everyone there, “but if it became absolutely necessary, yes, we could do it," he said. The Guardian - The International...

Coral Reef Management and Your Future

Posted by Tiny on Monday, 16 December 2013 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University are engaging social science to help solve some of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Dr Christina Hicks, an interdisciplinary social science fellow at the ARC CoECRS, holds a joint positi...

Helping Preserve Reefs

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 06 October 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem — the world's largest coral reef ecosystem — chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27 years. Katharina Fabricius, a coral reef ecologist at the Aus...