declined 14 percent on the Great Barrier Reef between 1990 and 2005. Ocean acidification seems to affect corals' ability to produce new colonies as well. Corals can, in effect, clone themselves ...

For example, corals are growing about 16 percent slower than in the 1990s in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Near-future levels of ocean acidification could become corrosive enough to erode the shells ...

Researchers are urging policymakers to take action in light of 'catastrophic' damage to the world's largest coral reef system ...

"A Critical Review of Environmental Management of the 'Not So Great' Barrier Reef ... "Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification." Science 333 (2011): 418–22. Pocock, ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...

This is an experimental set-up and research team at a coral reef flat ... Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The studies conducted here represent the first ocean acidification experiment ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to a tremendous array of endangered species, some found nowhere else in the world. Renowned for its beautiful corals and water clarity, the reef was listed by ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of ...

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg describes the Great ... and ocean acidification - both are ultimately linked to anthropogenic (human-induced) high CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere. Reef death ...

What impact do heatwaves have on coral reefs? This is what a recent study published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters hopes to address as a team of res | Earth And The Environment ...