Scientists are calling for mobile, rather than static, marine reserves to help protect those creatures that don’t stick to a single area. They made their call for these new designations at a recent AAAS meeting in Vancouver, Canada. It’s tracker data that is causing them to rethink the way reserves are set up and giving   Read More …

Looking back tens of millions of years, scientists are taking lessons from the past as a means to save the current reef habitats. Interaction  between corals and reef fish is something that developed relatively recently, and according to Professor David Bellwood of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, it’s   Read More …

New evidence shows that rising CO2 levels may actually affect reef fishes’ entire central nervous systems. CO2 concentrations are predicted to hit levels between 700 and 900 before the end of the century according to the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University.

An estimated 20 tons of dead herring recently turned up on one of Norway’s beaches and then as quickly as it was there, it mysteriously disappeared. The mass amount of dead fish turned up and New Years Eve, and there still doesn’t seem to be a clear explanation as to what happened. “People say that   Read More …