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You Darwin Some, You Lose Some
One coral species found able to adapt to warmer waters; others screwed |
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27 Apr 2006 |
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| You Darwin Some, You Lose Some One coral species found able to adapt to warmer waters; others screwed Last year, unusually warm Caribbean waters killed some 40 percent of the coral around the U.S. Virgin Islands and weakened much of the rest. This year, wouldn't you know it, the waters are warming again. "It's impossible to overstate how important this is," says biologist Caroline Rogers. High ... |
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| Topics: Caribbean, Hawaii, news, oceans, US Virgin Islands (all these topics) |
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Life's a Bleach and Then You Die
Caribbean coral reefs hammered by bleaching, disease |
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11 Apr 2006 |
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| Life's a Bleach and Then You Die Caribbean coral reefs hammered by bleaching, disease It hasn't been a good year for coral. Last summer, reefs from Panama to the Virgin Islands suffered bleaching; now coral in the Caribbean, some of it centuries old, is being attacked by deadly diseases. The whole grim sequence can be traced back to unusually high Caribbean ocean temperatures last summer, which caused the coral to freak out and exp ... |
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| Topics: Caribbean, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Reefer Badness
Caribbean corals bleaching at unprecedented rate |
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25 Oct 2005 |
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| Reefer Badness Caribbean corals bleaching at unprecedented rate This year's notably warmer-than-usual Atlantic waters -- fuel for 2005's intense hurricane season -- have been devastating some life below the waves as well. Water temperatures have remained elevated for about 15 weeks, causing coral reefs to bleach from the Florida Keys to Puerto Rico to Panama. The micro-algae that feed corals, and give them their br ... |
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| Topics: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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