Leila Fujimori
Source: The Honolulu Star Advertiser
September 2, 2010

Native sea urchins—cows of the sea—and an underwater vacuuming system dubbed the "Super Sucker" might be the answer to saving Hawaii's coral reefs from alien algae, which smother them.

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Source: ScienceDaily
August 31, 2010

Coral reefs are sensitive to climate change and track sea level. New observations show that an extensive coral reef existed in the southern Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago. Woodroffe et al. used multi-beam sonar, coring, and dating to examine a relict reef...

Source: UPI
August 30, 2010

Palm Beach, FL - A rare series of cold-water upwellings from the deep ocean has severely damaged coral reefs in Florida already stressed by pollution, scientists say.

The blasts of cold water hit the reefs in July, fatally bleaching large areas of coral, already...

Curtis Morgan
Source: The Miami Herald
August 26, 2010

There's a turf war going on under the warm waters off the Florida Keys, a battle for no less than dominance of dying coral reef tracts.

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Fidelis E. Satriastanti
Source: The Jakarta Globe
August 25, 2010

Jakarta, Indonesia - Coral bleaching, which was found to have occurred at an alarming rate in waters off Aceh, is happening throughout the archipelago, an environmentalist group says.

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