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NEW SCIENCE
A new study published in Nature Communications points out how important forests are to coral reefs. Joseph Maina of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Macquarie University and his colleagues modeled river flow and sediment supply in four watersheds. They looked at a range of future climate change and land-use scenarios, and found that the impacts to the reefs from deforestation were even greater than those predicted to occur from climate change. Photo: Tobias Zimmer
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CORAL IN THE NEWS
The coral reefs at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean eventually recovered from dozens of nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Yet some of the less dramatic, chronic stresses to reefs may be even more devastating to their health and long-term survival. CORAL's Executive Director, Dr. Michael Webster, speaks out about this topic. Read the article at the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal » Photo: U.S. Government |
JUST PUBLISHED
Mantas in the Moonlight Did you know that manta rays are more likely to gather during full or new moons? That’s just one interesting fact that came out of a study by researchers in Australia that used data collected by dive operators. Better knowledge of the behavior of these elasmobranchs—animals with skeletons made from cartilage instead of bone—can help managers plan sanctuaries for them. Read more in the June edition of E-current » Photo: Jim Catlin via Marine Photobank |
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