Archive for 'Coral Reefs'
From Long Island to the Solomon Islands, Communities Tackle Climate Change
As UN negotiators from around the world gather in Barcelona this week to continue hammering out a global climate deal, the question of emissions reduction targets has grabbed center stage in the press.
But even if all countries stopped emitting greenhouse gas pollution today, the impacts of climate change will be felt for years to come.
We [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, The Caribbean, United States.
Tags: adaptation, Caribbean climate, Choiseul, Climate Change, climate impact, coast climate change, Coastal Resilience, cop15, Copenhagen, Karen Foerstel, Lauru Land Conference, Long Island climate, Long Island sea rise, Mike Beck, Planet Change, Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands climate, Solomon Islands sea rise, UNFCCC Barcelona
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Eat Lionfish and Stop These Caribbean Reef Invaders
My husband returns to the same reefs every year in the Bahamas, where he has been teaching a coral reef ecology class for the last 14 years. On his 2008 trip, he noticed that the reef fish were missing. The culprits were quickly identified — and during his 2009 course, he and his students were [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Central America, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Fish, Invasive species, Oceans & Coasts, Science, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Caribbean, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: artisanal fishing, Bahamas, Bahamas lionfish, Caribbean Fisheries Management Council, Colombia lionfish, coral, coral reef, eat lionfish, grouper, grouper overfish, invasive fish, lionfish, lionfish recipe, Monterrey Bay Seafood Watch, reef fish, snapper Caribbean, Stephanie Wear, stop lionfish, Virgin Islands lionfish
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Nature Photo of the Week: Curacao Scorpionfish
With so many great photos from our online community this week, it was hard to pick just one… but this curacao scorpionfish by Flickr user DiamondPete has a certain “now you see me, now you don’t” quality that’s just too alluring to pass up.
Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Coral Reefs, Nature Photo of the Week, The Caribbean, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: curacao scorpionfish, nature image, nature photo, Nature Photo of the Week
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Bangkok Dispatch: Climate Negotiations Resume
We are back on the negotiating trail, this time in Bangkok, continuing international discussions that happened in Bonn in June and August. I arrived here late last night wondering what I would wake up to in the morning. So much has been happening recently on climate change, from last week’s “Climate Week” in New York [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Policy, United States.
Tags: climate agreement, Climate Change, cop15, Copenhagen, Coral Reefs, countries around the world, developing countries, ecosystems, fires in southern california, global climate, hot issues, impacts of climate change, international discussions, negotiation, senate committee, UN Bangkok, urgent action
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Ticking Clock for Coral Reefs and Climate Change
I should start out by reminding readers that I am a coral reef optimist, as previously stated in my first Cool Green Science blog post.
However, the news this week for coral reefs – and the ocean in general – is alarming and my optimism may quickly disappear if the global community doesn’t take appropriate action in short order.
What’s [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2009 under Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Science, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Climate Change, Copenhagen UN Climate Conference, ocean acidification, Reef Resilience, Royal Society, Stephanie Wear, The Coral Reef Crisis
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Listening to Coral Reefs: It’s Loud
Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her posts from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and climate [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Science, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Alison Green, coral audio, coral reef sounds, coral sound, Coral Triangle, Coral Triangle coral, Coral Triangle Nature Conservancy, Ecological Acoustic Recorder, healthy coral, healthy reef, Kimbe Bay, NOAA, NOAA audio, Papua New Guinea, reef audio, reef sound, snapping shrimp sound, stressed coral, stressed reef, University of Hawaii
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Cryptic Coral Reef Organisms! (What Are Those?)
Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her first post from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Australia, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Alison Green, Australia, Australia coral animal, Australia reef animal, Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures, Census of Marine Life, climate change reef, coral animal, coral climate change, coral monitor, coral reef organism, Coral Reefs, Coral Triangle, cryptic coral reef organism, cryptic reef organism, Hawaii, Hawaii coral animal, Hawaii reef animal, Kimbe Bay, Mark Eakin NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, NOAA ARMS, ocean acid, ocean acidification, octopus, Papua New Guinea, reef animal, reef monitor, sea snail, sea sponge, sea squirt, sea star, The Nature Conservancy, Walindi Plantation Resort
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Beam Me Up, Scotty! First Satellite Buoy to Monitor Ocean Temps in the Coral Triangle
What can a buoy in the ocean do in the fight against the effects of climate change? A lot, as I found out last week in the Coral Triangle — the most biodiverse marine region in the world.
I visited Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea with three scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Alison Green, Australia coral reef, Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, climate change science, coral bleaching, coral reef bleaching, coral science, Coral Triangle, CRED, Danny Merritt NOAA, Kimbe Bay, Mark Eakin NOAA, NOAA, NOAA climate, NOAA coral reef, NOAA Coral Reef Watch, Papua New Guinea, Rusty Brainard NOAA, satellite climate, satellite climate monitor, sea surface temperature, sea surface temperature buoy
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Hoping for a Hurricane? Coral Reefs Are
Having lived in the hurricane zone for most of the last decade, I have developed a bit of an addiction to The Weather Channel this time of year. Until recently, the general feeling around hurricane coverage and anticipation of hurricane season in the United States has been a fear of “the big one.” Now, and [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2009 under Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Oceans & Coasts, The Caribbean.
Tags: bleached coral, Caribbean coral bleaching, Caribbean coral reef, coral bleaching, coral reef management, Coral Reef Watch, El Nino, El Nino coral, El Nino coral bleaching, El Nino reef, Florida coral, Florida coral bleaching, Florida reef, hurricane, Hurricane Bill, hurricane coral, hurricane reef, hurricane season, hurricane season prediction blog, Lesser Antilles coral, Lesser Antilles reef, Nature Conservancy, Nature Conservancy coral, Nature Conservancy reef, NOAA Coral Reef Watch, ocean warming, sea warming, Stephanie Wealr, superoxide coral, superoxide reef, The Nature Conservancy, zooxanthellae, zooxznthellae bleaching
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, August 25
From the serious (climate change in Africa, declining reef fish in the Caribbean) to the not-so-serious (carbon-friendly ice cream? robotic fish to help detect pollution?), our round-up of Cool Green Morning news is sure to help start your day off on a green foot.
It’s the new robo-cop of the underwater world: scientists have developed a [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Africa, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Coral Reefs, Energy, Fish, Forests, Green Living, Green Technology, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Caribbean.
Tags: ambient ice cream, Blogfish, Brazil deforestation, Caribbean reef fish, climate change in Africa, drought, Environmental Capital, flood, global carbon emissions from deforestation, heatwave, low-carbon ice cream, National Institute for Space Research, population growth, robofish, sea level rise, underwater pollution
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