Marine Palaeoecology
University of Queensland
Scary news for corals – from the Ice Age
There is growing scientific concern that corals could retreat from equatorial seas and oceans as the Earth continues to warm, a team of international marine researchers warned today. Working on clues in the fossil coral record from the last major episode of global warming, the period between the last two ice ages about 125,000 years [...]
Historic coral collapse on Great Barrier Reef
Australian marine scientists have unearthed evidence of an historic coral collapse in Queensland’s Palm Islands following development on the nearby mainland. Cores taken through the coral reef at Pelorus Island confirm a healthy community of branching Acropora corals flourished for centuries before European settlement of the area, despite frequent floods and cyclone events. Then, between [...]
Sea life ‘facing major shock’
Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world’s leading marine scientists has warned. The researchers from Australia, the US, Canada, German buy cheap viagra soft y, Panama, Norway and the UK have compared events which drove [...]
We can still save our reefs: coral scientist
John Pandolfi keeps his optimism alive despite the grim scientific evidence he confronts daily that the world’s coral reefs are in a lot of trouble – along with 81 nations and 500 million people who depend on them. The coral scientist from the order cialis online no prescription ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef [...]
