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New NOAA coral bleaching prediction system calls for low level of bleaching in Caribbean this year

A new NOAA coral bleaching prediction system indicates that there will be some bleaching in the Caribbean later this year, but the event will probably not be…

Flatfish Fossils Fill in Evolutionary Missing Link

Hidden away in museums for more that 100 years, some recently rediscovered flatfish fossils have filled a puzzling gap in the story of evolution and answered a…

Could Climate Change Impact Costa Rica? New Study Says Yes

“Central America is a major, emerging “hot spot” in the tropics where climate change impacts on the environment will be pronounced, and the loss of species…

Ocean Wind Maps Reveal Possible Energy Sources

The new maps, based on nearly a decade of data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite, have many potential uses, including planning the locations of offshore wind…

Shells – a unique climate archive on the ocean floor

For Professor Bernd Schöne, however, these hard calcium shells provide a profound insight into the history of our earth and especially into the climate of the…

NOAA report states half of US coral reefs in 'poor' or 'fair' condition

The report issued today, The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008, says that the nation's coral reef…

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