The Center for Biological Diversity recently prepared and filed a scientific petition to have 83 coral species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed on October 20, 2009, looks to use the powers of…
Coral Cryobank being developed to preserve the diversity of threatened coral species
The Coral Cryobank is the first global effort to help preserve coral species from the world’s struggling reefs that is being spearheaded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The Coral Cryobank aims to protect the future of coral species…
Dubai’s biggest coral reef moved
While some of us have moved our fair share of reef tanks to new homes and living spaces, few of us, if any at all have moved actual coral reefs. That is exactly what the scientists and coral gurus did…
Coral Reefs Damaged from recent 8.0 Earthquake in the Solomon Islands
In the Solomon islands, coral reefs were heavily damaged from a recent 8.0 scale earthquake in the region. In an instant, the grinding of the Earth’s tectonic plates in the 8.0 magnitude earthquake Monday forced the island of Ranongga up…
