Coral Bones

"We didn’t expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years" Terry P. Hughes to The New...

A report from Haiti

If [pressures on reefs are ]left unchecked, more than 90 percent of reefs will be threatened by 2030 and nearly all reefs will be at risk by...

A combination of greenhouse gas mitigation and improved coral reef management will be required to avoid the degradation of the world’s coral...

A "lucky combination" of rare circumstances has meant the GBR has been able to make a recovery from the 2006 bleaching event. See:...

Fred Pearce reports on a controversy over Chagos.

A study that found a decline in calcification rates on the Great Barrier Reef (see Getting lumpy on the GBR ) has recently received widespre...

Getting lumpy on the GBR at The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

The story is here .

At Maribo ( The fierce urgency of now ), Simon Donner expresses disappointment at what he sees as a well intentioned but weak efforts at the...

News and reports from the International Coral Reef Symposium here . Highlights for 7 July included: Presentation of a check [cheque] for...

...Coral reefs, the rainforest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species in the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reas...

A version of this review is to appear shortly on Chinadialogue.net Caspar Henderson reviews A Reef in Time - The Great Barrier Reef from Beg...

Coral Bones emerges momentarily from hibernation to note Reef Ramblings on Arthur C. Clarke – Pioneer of Scuba Diving and Reef Exploration .

There are unlikely to be more posts on Coral Bones , at least for a little while. (I do, however, continue to blog on a variety of topics at...

In Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification , Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and sixteen other distinguished marine scientists cal...

On 7 Dec, the Jakarta Post reported Asia to push coral reef into Kyoto system : Indonesia and five other countries within the Asia and Pacif...

Economics of Overexploitation Revisited shows in four disparate fisheries that dynamic maximum economic yield can exceed maximum sustained ...

I've been critical of ecotourism in the past, perhaps intemperately so. Conceding that "there is substantial evidence that well run...

Nothing new, as far as I can see, in the Reuters feature ' Indonesia's corals threatened by climate change '; yet another heads-...

10 Downing Street has responded to a petition (noted on this blog here ) asking the Prime Minister "to drop the [UK government's] a...

Tim McClanahan, a Senior Conservation Zoologist with Wildlife Conservation Society who is based in Kenya, circulates notice of a new paper m...

This came in yesterday from Tom Goreau, who is on his way to the Sustainable Mariculture Conference in Makassar before attending the Bali cl...

At the time, there was much comment in the media, not all of it well-informed, about the impact of the Sumatra-Andaman tsunami of 26 Decembe...

John French , whose recent work also includes revolutionary undergarments , has drawn an introduction to a seaweed farming project in Buton,...

Project Sea Camel is posting a series of underwarer classes about corals and other marine organisms on YouTube here .

It's too late. We have now actually missed the boat in finding some key pharmaceuticals. There is a huge gap in our knowledge of soft co...

John Bohannon 's lively account of the Genoa Festival of Science ( Celebrating Food, Feces, and 3 Billion Years of Evolution ) links to ...

Carl Hiaassen writes that "One of South Florida's dirtiest secrets is the daily dumping of a half-billion gallons of sewage into t...

To Ivy-Mike and the thermonuclear age. The fireball was over 3 miles (5 km) wide, and the mushroom cloud rose to an altitude of 57,000 fee...