Good News — and Bad — for Coral Reefs
One of the most troubling warning signs of environmental degradation in general, and climate change in particular, is the gradual destruction of the world's coral reefs. A 2004 World Wildlife Fund...
View ArticleRe-reefing the Florida Keys
A mile off Florida's Big Pine Key and 30 feet under water, sunlight streams down onto lumps of brain coral. Scarlet grouper, white hogfish and electric-blue angelfish dart about. It seems the kind of...
View ArticleTeach a Man to Share a Fish, and He’ll Fish Forever
By the early 1990s, Alaska's halibut stocks had dwindled to the point that the commercial season lasted just two days. Fishermen were forced to frantically haul in as much halibut as they could over...
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Riddles of an Acerbic Sea
Just a quarter of the carbon dioxide generated by burning fuels ends up being recycled through the biological processes of terrestrial plants and animals, according to the National Oceanic and...
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Profile: Reddy Stayed Steady During Gulf Oil Spill
Last November, a half year after the BP oil spill, as Christopher Reddy sat in a Mobile, Ala., restaurant, he overheard a customer at a nearby table ask a friend if he would order fish. "The other...
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Breeding Tropical Fish to Save Their Schools
Inside her humid Texas lab, Joan Holt weaves through 36 tall, cylindrical PVC tanks containing the nearly invisible larvae of one of the tropical fish species she studies. In each tank, the oxygen and...
View ArticleHow Marine Spatial Planning Calms Choppy Waters
Imagine starting to build a house by first deciding where to put the kitchen sink, suggests scientist Benjamin Halpern. The placement is first class — for a sink — and helps the next project on your...
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