Sentences with phrase «from dead reefs»

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When Mote has enough pieces from the same organism, divers paste them all over a dead reef structure.

It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

«Right now, coral reefs around the world are either bleached, dead from bleaching or trying to recover from bleaching,» said C. Mark Eakin, who coordinates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch.

The starfish will typically reduce the amount of living coral from around 25 percent to less than 5 percent of a reef, which comprises mostly dead coral as well as other kinds of aquatic life.

This zone extends from Manta where the coastline faces due North with dead - on exposure to winter Northwest swells at several point and jetty breaks, out to the San Lorenzo Cape, a rugged zone containing a series of remote point and reef breaks which work on a wide variety of swell directions and tides with varying wind protection, and finally to the south facing end of the cape which contains some of Ecuador's hollowest beachbreaks and rivermouths.

This zone extends from Manta where the coastline faces due North with dead - on exposure to winter Northwest swells at several point and jetty breaks, out to the San Lorenzo Cape, a rugged zone containing a series of remote point and reef breaks which work on a wide variety of swell directions and tides with varying wind protection, and finally to the south facing end of the cape which contains some of Ecuador's hollowest beach breaks and river mouths.

Two excellent scuba diving and snorkeling areas called Seal Rock and Dead Man's Reef are both located offshore from Crescent Bay Beach, and tide pools are exposed at both ends of the cove during low tides.

The reef is supposedly almost dead from the combined effects of a warming climate, nutrient pollution from Australian farms, and smothering sediment from offshore dredging.

Japan's biggest coral reef is facing disaster from rising ocean temperature with the bulk of it having gone dead due to coral bleaching.

This week divers from different coastal communities around the world wrapped the bright yellow crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs in a series of underwater dives.

Perhaps so, according to research done by Dr. Graham Forrester from the University of Rhode Island, and a team of scientists, students and locals who worked to restore a dead reef in White Bay in the British Virgin Islands.

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The dead zone's return was discovered by oceanographers at Oregon State University, who deployed robotic underwater gliders and other monitoring devices over the past few months to assess oxygen levels in the water.They discovered that oxygen levels on reefs previously devastated by past dead zones had dropped to 0.5 mL / L by the end of June — a far cry from the 1.4 mL / L level considered to be hypoxic for most marine life.

Divers from coastal communities around the world wrapped crime - scene tape around dead coral reefs during a series of underwater dives to highlight the catastrophic damage to this valuable ecosystem and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry for its loss.

Hypoxia, or low oxygen levels, can create large dead zones that snuff out marine life and threaten dozens to hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, according to researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute or STRI.

The panning across the dead reef at the film's intro went from a blanket of bland brown calcium to an intricate collection of reds, oranges, browns, and purples, while scenes like the helicopter shot of the reef from above exploded with color, revealing electric blue, sapphire, and dazzling aquamarine.