Melbourne (Global Adventures): Improving the quality of local water increases the resistance of coral reefs to global climate change, a new study conducted by the Florida Institute of Technology finds. Coral reef ecologist Robert van Woesik his team showed that when waters in the Florida Keys warmed over the last few summers, corals living in [...]

Washington, D.C. (Global Adventures): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Washington (UW) will continue to work in the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) to study marine ecosystems, ocean acidification, climate change, and tsunamis. The institute is one of the biggest beneficiaries of about 20 [...]

Nairobi (Global Adventures): Species are declining at an alarming rate, the United Nations says in the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook report. The process may soon begin to undermine the performance of national economies since global ecosystems have to deal with the loss of large areas of forests and the collapse of coral [...]

Chicago (Global Adventures): Scuba divers exploring the Great Lakes are now warned to pressure wash all gear before using it in other bodies of water to avoid spreading the sea lamprey, an invasive species that destroys native lake trout populations by attaching themselves and drawing blood and nutrients from the fish. Victims typically die from [...]

Washington, DC (Global Adventures): The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a five-year, $2.2 billion plan to revitalize the Great Lakes, including cleaning up polluted water and beaches, restoring wetlands and fighting invasive species such as Asian carp. At the end of last year, Congress authorized $475 million to be spent on improving the ecosystem that [...]

Washington, D.C. (Global Adventures): The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a five-year, $22.5 million grant to a new entity called The Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology. It will be headquartered at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Pierce, Florida, and co-managed by the University [...]

Monterey (Global Adventures): Researchers from NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have carried out the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin. Harmful algae blooms and marine bio-toxins can impact the whole marine food web and the human endeavors associated with living marine [...]