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iLCP Photo Expedition to Document Cradle of Marine Biodiversity
Posted by International League of Conservation Photographers on March 15, 2013 
“Long term and meaningful conservation success really is only possible if NGOs and photographers work together – very often also working with scientists. If you can get those three sectors working together, you’re pretty much a non-stoppable force.” Thomas Peschak, Conservation Photographer and iLCP Fellow The International League of Conservation Photographers has pulled together an…
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By Mera McGrew Similar to people in danger, corals under attack do what anyone would do—they call for help. A new study reported in the journal Science, shows that corals under attack by toxic seaweed send chemical distress signals to “emergency responder” fish, which respond within a matter of minutes to what is effectively a…
Posted by Follow along as NG Grantee Rhian Waller explores the surprisingly diverse corals that dwell deep in the fjords of the southern tip of South America, and discover what they can tell us about the rest of the ocean as well.
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This Saturday is the one-month anniversary of Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) new 86,000 square-foot Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research. The $50-million facility, located at NSU’s Oceanographic Center at John U. Lloyd Beach State Park in Hollywood, Florida, celebrated its grand opening at the end of September. The massive and multifaceted project…
Posted by I had an opportunity to visit Cuba in May 2012 under a licensed program with the Vermont Caribbean Institute. This article is a follow-up effort to learn and engage with other environmental researchers yearning for more cooperation between the United States and Cuba. I have not dealt with the political aspects of the conflict between…
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After rough weather and not seeing a lot of fish we headed out of the lagoon against the oncoming waves, zigzagging at high speed while trying to miss the shallow rocks and corals, and trying not to capsize.
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Expedition team member Alan Friedlander describes the scientists’ most recent dive, saying “With over 6,000 hours underwater, I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
Diving at Henderson it is so easy to be fascinated by the sharks and other large fishes, that we risk missing entire little universes. As these photos show though, no matter what scale we view things at, Henderson reefs are full of life.
This morning we arrived at Henderson Island, where in 1820 three survivors of the wreck of the whaling ship Essex lived for more than 4 months after their ship was sunk by a bull sperm whale, and while their companions made a horrific journey through storm, starvation, death, and cannibalism until finding rescue in the waters off South America.
The coral reefs of Ducie Atoll are some of the last tropical marine paradises, memories of what the ocean was like before extensive human impacts.
Beyond the island’s halo of muck caused by four days of relentless rains, we found clearer deeper waters and an unexpected coral reef, teeming with fish.
Global Fishing Communities Putting the Heat on Climate Change Talks
Posted by Wildlife Conservation Society on December 7, 2011 Political disagreements on how to address climate change continue, while in the real world, shifting weather patterns, increasing temperatures, and more acidic oceans indicate that climate change is having significant impacts on people around the world.
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Freezing coral sperm might sound like a dirty job, but it’s a passion for marine biologist Mary Hagedorn.
Climate Certainties, Climate Confusion: Kim Cobb at PopTech
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 27, 2010 Scholars need to do a better job of distinguishing between what’s known (that fossil fuel use warms the planet) and what we’re still learning (what that means in terms of droughts, monsoons, big storms, and other consequences), says climate scientist Kim Cobb. By Ford Cochran Georgia Tech geochemist and climate scientist Kim Cobb is one…
Posted by This year’s National Geographic/National Park Service bioblitz takes place Friday, April 30-May 1. Hundreds of scientists and many more volunteers will fan across Biscayne National Park, creating an inventory of every living species over 24 hours from midday to midday. Biscayne is an unusual national park in that most of its 172,000 acres is covered…
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced the creation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the British Indian Ocean Territory yesterday, doubling the total area of the world’s oceans under official protection. The new MPA includes a “no-take” marine reserve where commercial fishing, including whaling, will be banned. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) consists…
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Posted by Stuart Pimm on March 17, 2010 By Stuart L. Pimm Another perfect day in paradise. The winds are light, the sunrise glorious, the sky blue all day. The temperature is a pleasant low 70s F and humidity is low. But then, most days at this time of year are perfect here in the Florida Keys. Yes, I know many of you…
After meeting with President Obama last week, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo stopped by National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., to talk about conservation in the Pacific’s Coral Triangle region. Spread across a vast swath of ocean spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and the Solomon Islands–an area half the size…
It is only relatively recently that it has dawned upon humans that the ocean is not something that can be taken for granted. Vast, deep, unfathomable in so many ways, the great body of liquid that envelops our planet at an average depth of some six miles acts as the main regulator of our weather…
NASA We hear a lot about how carbon dioxide emissions are warming the atmosphere and changing climate in ways that are damaging, if not catastrophic, for life on Earth. Increasingly we are also learning about the impact of carbon dioxide on the oceans. As the sea absorbs carbon from the air its chemistry is changing, becoming more…
Photo courtesy Enric Sala Three new marine national monuments proclaimed by President Bush today won him a standing ovation in the final weeks of his Presidency. “These locations are truly among the last pristine areas in the marine environment on earth,” Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality James Connaughton said in a media call…
Four years after the tsunami, corals are thriving in this transplant site on Achech, Indonesia. Photo courtesy WCS Coral reefs in areas of Indonesia devastated by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean four years ago today have made a rapid recovery, a team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reports. The…
Photo courtesy ARC Centre of Excellence Spread across a vast swath of ocean spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and the Solomon Islands — an area half the size of the United States — the Coral Triangle has the highest diversity of marine life of any area on Earth. This “Amazon…
Human impacts are laying the groundwork for mass extinctions in the oceans on par with vast ecological upheavals of the past, a sea scientist warned this week. Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, in the photo on the right, believes that overfishing, pollution, and climate change…
