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Coral Reefs of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories
2013-03-14 08:41:25| Springer Environmental Sciences titles
series:Coral Reefs of the WorldThe tropical UK Territories have extensive coral reefs. Huge parts of these areas are exceptionally rich, productive and diverse. Their marine biodiversity exceeds that of the UK itself, and several are already, or are planned to be, strictly protected. Some of these areas serve as reference sites for many other countries with damaged reefs and they are oases of tropical marine biodiversity ...
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Climate Change Threatens Caribbean Coral Reefs
2013-02-14 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Scientists and researchers are working together in a new initiative to collect data that will help determine the effects of climate change on coral in the Caribbean Sea. "We want to know how climate change will impact our corals. So we will measure variables that would impact corals due to climate change," said Mark Bynoe, senior research economist at the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC). Bynoe told IPS that the idea behind the project is to be able to able to...
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How do corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet?
2013-02-01 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Catherine Beswick catherine.beswick@noc.ac.uk National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) Coral reefs are predicted to decline under the pressure of global warming. However, a number of coral species can survive at seawater temperatures even higher than predicted for the tropics during the next century. How they survive, whi…
FPL Poles Create Two Reefs Off of St. Lucie County
2013-01-15 22:04:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Off the coast of St. Lucie County, divers and anglers can enjoy two new artificial reefs that were created through a donation of 130 concrete poles provided by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL).
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