Coral Reefs

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"We've wiped out a lot of species over the years. This will be the first time we've actually eliminated an entire ecosystem," laments ecologist Peter F Sale, in Our Dying Planet, his latest book, published by University of California Press. It's full of nasty surprises.

Climate Central lampooned geoengineering -- ideas for planetary-scale projects to cool Earth -- with its own set of not-so-serious proposals, including giving Maalox to livestock.

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First New York, then other cities around the world. Now the Occupy movement has spread underwater and it doesn't even involve humans. Taiwanese art...

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At present, there are no fewer than 140 laws and 20 agencies that govern our seas, each with its own agendas and mandates. Such piecemeal governance is unwieldy and fails to effectively address many of the oceans' problems.

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Coral Reefs are in deep trouble due to warming and acidifying oceans, but they may not be in as much danger as previously thought.

Marine spatial planning will map out our seas and designate the best areas for industry use. It calls for all of the different government agencies that have a toe in the ocean to talk to each other and work together; it will make them work better.

Abundant marine, animal and plant life in the Philippines support a rapidly growing population of 90 million. The nation's wealth in natural resources also serves as profitable products in the global market.

I've become passionately involved with the Protect Our Coral Sea initiative, which aims to create the largest marine park in the world, free of fishing, oil and gas exploration, and seabed mining.

Though we have feet not fins, we are more dependent on the oceans than you may imagine. On World Oceans Day it pays to reflect on all that our seas provide and how we can repay the many favors.

In an era of spiraling health care costs, nature's most promising pharmacy is the only thing that is still free. We ought to take better care of it.

MANILA, Philippines -- Officials say a ship loaded with coal has run aground and destroyed a large portion of a marine sanctuary in the southern Phili...

Palmyra's isolation has allowed it to escape most of the damage usually caused by human populations. It allows us to look back in time to see what a healthy ecosystem should really look like.

A recent study has found that all of the world's coral reefs could be gone by 2050. If lost, 500 million people's livelihoods worldwide would be threa...

Last week saw the publication of two high-profile studies in the journal Nature on the links between climate change and precipitation extremes.

A new paper describes a framework to measure the impacts of coral loss on fish populations. Taken broadly, the results indicate that more than a third of coral reef fish species are in jeopardy of local extinction from climate change.

We're hard wired by evolution to respond to the most immediate threats (secret police and Tsunamis), not the broad long-term challenges such as climate disruption, population, consumption and loss of biodiversity.

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