Sentences with phrase «dead coral on»

Teaser image: Bleached, dead coral on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia caused by rising ocean temperatures.

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Within the past century, however, humans have flattened the coral reefs on the continental shelves and scraped the sea grass beds bare; a dead zone bigger than New Jersey grows at the mouth of the Mississippi; all the world's cod fisheries have collapsed.

These hardy corals — known as coralliths — grow on pebbles or fragments of dead reefs, and they can survive being buffeted by waves and ocean currents.

According to a study published today in Frontiers in Zoology, the shrimpicide happens because the crustaceans — which feed on fish parasites and dead skin cells near coral reefs in the Indo - Pacific region and the Red Sea — grow slowly if there's too many of them in a tank.

After six weeks in the slow cooker, more than half of corals on a given reef were typically dead, and the mix of species left alive was radically transformed.

coral Marine animals that often produce a hard and stony exoskeleton and tend to live on the exoskeletons of dead corals, called reefs.

Some soft corals and small hard corals on and around the wreck, but Turtle point was a debris of dead bits of coral... devastating!

On Lizard Island's fringing reef, we found some large patches of bleached coral and some dead coral.

The snorkelling trip we went on was very disjoin ting, we were taken to 4 spots and all had dead coral and rubbish everywhere.

5:10 p.m. Updated below A spirited discussion has built on Dot Earth and elsewhere in response to the potent weekend Op - Ed article by Roger Bradbury of Australian National University challenging hopeful visions of coral reef restoration and calling them «zombie ecosystems» — the living dead — in a human - dominated world.

Why is a thorough, accurate, compelling story about the problem of coral reefs not on the front page, complete with a large picture of a declining or dead reef juxtaposed with a picture of a healthy reef?

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

After measuring water quality and going through thick bacterial slime and dead marine animal bodies on the ocean floor, the researchers found extremely low oxygen levels in greater depths while there was still high oxygen in shallow waters where corals were healthy — a symptom of a dead zone.

When Lt. Laz Ojeda of the Coral Springs Fire Department reached Maddy Wilford at Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, he thought she was dead.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Parents of students from Parkland and Coral Springs are headed to Tallahassee on Monday to pressure Florida lawmakers to reform gun laws in the state in the wake of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Parents of students from Parkland and Coral Springs are headed to Tallahassee on Monday to pressure Florida lawmakers to reform gun laws in the state in the wake of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people Coral Springs are headed to Tallahassee on Monday to pressure Florida lawmakers to reform gun laws in the state in the wake of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 people dead.

The other rooms I like but only if the styled elements are removed: the big, useless vases and dead branches, the topiary on the counter, the impersonal art (giant pears, giant coral — reminds me of paintings you see in offices or department stores).