Clive Wilkinson, coordinator for the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, lives in Townsville, Queensland.
The family-owned Coral Reef Club comprises 88 luxury rooms set amid 12 acres of landscaped grounds.
The coral reef system stretches for 2, 600 kilometers and can be seen from outer space.
The IMAX film "Coral Reef Adventure" based their shooting locations on Reefs at Risk information.
Coral reef: complex tropical marine ecosystem dominated by soft and stony (hard) corals, anemones and sea fans.
Many of the buildings are high-rises whose skeletons are making Panama City look like an out-of-water coral reef.
Surrounded by its own coral reef, the island measures 1.5 acres and contains a Bahamian-style 4-bedroom, 3-bath home.
"You're living and sleeping on top of a wild coral reef, " says DiBenedetto.
We're reminded that the "Titanic" director is an avid deep-sea diver: Pandora's rainforest resembles a spectacular coral reef.
Sikkel's team is studying the relationship between coral reef destruction and the parasites.
"There's a coral reef off Norway that was discovered in 2007 and it's likely to be dead by 2020, " says O'Dor.
Strengthen local and regional efforts to protect coral reefs through support for priority items identified in the U.S. Islands Coral Reef Initiative.
In 1991, the ferry Salem Express hit a coral reef outside the Port of Safaga 375 miles southeast of Cairo, killing 474 people.
Barrier reef: a coral reef separated from the land by a large lagoon or, in some cases, by several kilometres of open sea.
It monitors coral reef, mangrove and seagrass sites in San Salvador.
During the past 50 years oceans have become "one-third of a pH unit more acid" according to Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, (CoECRS).
The project looks at four main threats to coral reefs -- marine-based threats, over-fishing, coastal development, and land-based sources of pollution -- in six main coral reef regions.
The Coral Reef Alliance, based in San Francisco, lists several things people can do to help protect coral reefs: choosing sustainably-harvested seafood and not buying coral jewellery are a few.
The spill damaged coral reef formations, according to researchers.
Peter Mumby of the University of Exeter, in England, and his colleagues looked at how the ecology of a coral reef in the Bahamas changed following the banning of fishing in 1986.
When the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation's research ship recently needed help getting permission from the Egyptian government to enter the Red Sea, Ludwig made several phone calls, and the mission was under way.
The Coral Reef Task Force consists of senior leaders of 11 federal agencies and representatives of seven states and territories, and is co-chaired by the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Commerce.
The final report that will be published in September will also look to the future, to 2030 and 2050, projecting what may happen to coral reef communities and what could be done help them survive additional climate-related threats.
In the second meeting of the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force this month in Maui, Hawaii, Commerce Deputy Secretary Robert Mallett, on behalf of the task force, announced a series of actions to begin the collaborated effort to strengthen protection of natural coral reefs around the world.
The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.
Coral-reef fish tend to grow slowly, take many years to reach reproductive age, and then spawn in only a few localised sites.
Chuck Birkeland, a coral-reef biologist at the University of Hawaii and specialist in marine protected areas, has been in the business for 30 years.
Divers and adventurers will salivate at the sight of the translucent waters and massive coral arrays of the Mesoamerican Reef - the second-largest barrier reef in the world.
There are at least 260 species of reef-building coral and 70 species of sponges, plus dugong (a manatee cousin), sharks, manta rays, and about 14 species of whale, dolphin, and sea turtles.
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