Study helps nations plan for protein alternatives as fisheries decline A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a [...]
Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs. A team of ‘coralbots’, each individually working to simple rules, will piece together damaged bits of coral, allowing them to [...]
Ocean health index provides first global assessment combining natural and human dimensions of sustainability Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, scientists have evaluated the ecological, social, [...]
Most people head off to an art exhibit with comfortable shoes and a deep appreciation for creativity. Jason deCaires Taylor’s work requires flippers and, to really appreciate it, a depth of at least 12 feet. Mr. [...]
Unfortunately this unique habitat is the latest victim of government budget cuts. Fabien Cousteau paid a visit to Sylvia Earle and the underwater base in danger of losing its funding, and says that the work [...]
I’m an optimist, I really am, especially when it comes to technology and its ability to transform the world. But today I can’t shake the feeling that we as a species are really screwing up. [...]
IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive in any functional [...]
“Not for 55m years has there been oceanic disruption of comparable severity” IN 1998 a rise in sea temperatures caused by El Niño, a periodic eastward surge of warm Pacific water, caused a mass bleaching [...]
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. In a delicate operation at sea, 28 healthy laboratory-raised staghorn coral colonies were transplanted last month by our Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center researchers to a threatened [...]
The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow-motion disasters, with knock-on effects for years For Tim McClanahan, a zoologist studying fisheries, what happened in Kenya during the spring of 1998 was a [...]
These results show us that fisheries can be both highly productive and sustainable In the search for sustainability of the ocean’s fisheries, solutions can be found in a surprising place: the ancient past. In a [...]
Co-management partnerships are having considerable success A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific [...]