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  • The two entities have continued to work together on other projects, such as incorporating satellite measurements on coral-reef bleaching.

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

  • The two entities have continued to work together on other projects, such as incorporating satellite measurements on coral-reef bleaching.

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

  • Earth Day's 40th anniversary will be celebrated across the globe Thursday: There will be children studying pollution in Baltimore Harbor, volunteers cutting down invasive ivy in the District, a coral-reef cleanup in the Virgin Islands, a concert in Rome.

    Born in 1970, event has cause for celebration -- and a midlife crisis 2010

  • Earth Day's 40th anniversary will be celebrated across the globe Thursday: There will be children studying pollution in Baltimore Harbor, volunteers cutting down invasive ivy in the District, a coral-reef cleanup in the Virgin Islands, a concert in Rome.

    Born in 1970, event has cause for celebration -- and a midlife crisis 2010

  • His research ranges from the field discovery and description of new coral-reef species, through experimental study of coastal and estuarine food web interactions, to collaborative efforts to quantify and publicize the role of marine biodiversity in providing essential ecosystem services.

    Contributor: J. Emmett Duffy 2010

  • In the sea, think of a coral-reef fish, which never ventures into deep water.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Cleaning, among coral-reef fish, is a well-established way of life, like hunting or grazing or anteating among mammals.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Boasting more than 500 species of reef-building coral -- 75% of all those known and almost seven times the number found in the entire Caribbean -- it represents one of the richest coral-reef systems in the world.

    Dive Time 2009

  • In the sea, think of a coral-reef fish, which never ventures into deep water.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Cleaning, among coral-reef fish, is a well-established way of life, like hunting or grazing or anteating among mammals.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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