Sentences with phrase «of dead coral»

Much of the dead coral has been covered over with a fuzzy, red algae, giving the reef a haunting appearance.

The southern section of white sand peters out into stones and bits of dead coral just south of Kacha Resort.

Many of the large coral fans have been smashed and much of the shallow reef is just a mass of dead coral.

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

The skeletons of the dead corals, the living corals, the shells of other organisms, and the lime secreted by certain encrusting and creeping algae accumulate and form the physical structure of the reef.

Now the color of dead corals has turned dark brown and are seen submerged under algae.

Not exact matches

Researchers who conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300 - kilometer (1,400 - mile) reef off Australia's east coast found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying, said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland scoral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying, said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland sCoral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland state.

Almost a quarter of the coral in the 132,974 square foot wonderland of marine life is dead, and 93 % has been touched by «bleaching,» a result of rising ocean temperatures.

In that time more than 500 tons of limy sand and dead coral have been jetted away with hoses and sucked and resucked through the maws of dredges, each cubic foot of it tediously searched for the small trinkets and fragments of the wreck.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Here in the land of hanging chads, where a recent poll shows the presidential race in a dead heat, you might expect incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to be feeling some reelection pressure.

That same day, a research vessel seven miles from the spill site discovered dozens of communities of dead and dying coral.

By May, 35 percent of the northern and central reefs» corals were already dead or dying.

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.

To measure bioerosion, researchers deployed small blocks of calcium carbonate (dead coral skeleton) onto the reef for one year.

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.

The news from coral surveys south of the popular tourist city of Cairns was bleak, with about 5 percent of corals found dead or dying.

Overall, 35 percent of the corals surveyed in the central and northern sections of the Great Barrier Reef were reported this week to be dead or dying.

In stunning new findings that have laid bare the limitations of marine parks as defenses against rapid environmental change, more than half of the corals surveyed in large chunks of this pristine stretch of the Great Barrier Reef are expected to soon be dead.

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.

The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones,...

He travels the world documenting dead and dying coral reefs, sometimes gathering photographs just ahead of their death, too.

Hidden impacts of ocean acidification to live and dead coral framework.

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.

Only the dead coral skeleton that forms the base of the reef starts dissolving at certain carbon dioxide concentrations.

The first occurred in the late 1990s, leaving one out of six of the world's corals dead.

At Coringa Herald, in the same area, approximately 70 % of corals were bleached, and of those 35 % were totally bleached and 20 % dead.

«For some surviving corals in the northern Great Barrier Reef, over 50 % of the coral cells are dead.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently returned from the Island and are reporting that 50 to 90 percent of corals they saw were bleached and as many as 30 percent were already dead at some sites.

I have realized over time, though, that it's not that I don't like pink, but that I am not drawn to cool toned pinks; I love warm peachy pinks, corals, and tawny dead shades of pink.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, [its] base of branches dead; so that passages can not be seen.

He states «Acidification, coral bleaching, the loss of biodiversity, with global warming and extreme changing weather patterns is causing alternating frequent typhoons and droughts where fisheries are collapsing and dead zones because of lack of oxygen are the virtual underwater deserts.»

These areas of the coral head are dead and silted in, probably due to the shallow water covering them which allows more sunlight and thus more colonization by algae.

The crew did a good job but most of the coral was dead and marine life was minimal, making the conditions disappointing, though we were visiting in late March and the fish repopulate through the wet season.

The first stage in restoring the ring reef around the entire island was started in 2008 and protecting its lovely beaches without concrete, dead coral walls, or plastic mesh bags pumped full of sand, which invariably disintegrate, rip, and leave plastic debris littering the sand.

«Yeah, I go from village to village teaching stuff like you know, you got ta use gravel instead of coral, and if you're gonna use coral, use dead coral.»

Good variety and a fair number of hard corals, unfortunately some dead coral patches destroyed by either dynamite fishing or damaged by sea stars (crown of thorn).

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.

So that's even more interesting now after this recent bleaching event when 25 % of the Great Barrier Reef's coral is dead.

The highlight of the exhibition is «Bleached,» a project motivated by the impact of mineral extraction in the Dead Sea, in which Nevi Pana allowed unnatural objects to crystallize like coral formations.

And I think I would keep drilling out of the Gulf of Mexico, which we are already doing a good job of wrecking (coral bleaching, the dead zone, etc).

Before The Flood feels like every other climate change documentary, full of spectacular sweeping panoramas of melting Arctic ice, burning rainforests, flooding South Pacific islands, dead coral reefs, and smoggy Chinese cities.

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.

Only 10 % of the GBR is actually dead from coral bleaching.»

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.

In one small area, you can find four very unique bodies of water: there is the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, the Med Sea and the Sea of Galilee.With the sea to the west, coral reefs to the south, waterfalls in the north and a freshwater system throughout, Israel's environment is deeply affected by issues of water use and conservation, says the course press release.

Only one third of the coral reef is dead in the gulf of Mexico.

It is now well accepted and verified that many biological organisms (e.g., trees, corals, plankton, animals) alter their growth and / or population dynamics in response to changing climate, and that these climate - induced changes are well recorded in past growth in living and dead (fossil) specimens or assemblages of organisms.