Coral Reef Maps - Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Gulf

03/10/2010
New Caledonia taps Australia to protect massive coral reef (AsiaOne)
CANBERRA - New Caledonia on Wednesday enlisted Australia's help to protect its massive coral reef, the world's second biggest after the Great Barrier Reef. more info

03/11/2010
Whale sharks return to reef (Perth Now)
THE largest fish in the ocean – the mighty whale sharks – have made an early appearance this week at Ningaloo Reef on WA's Coral Coast. more info

03/10/2010
Roverta Boen, owner of Bo's Coral Reef, dies (The Florida Times-Union)
Roverta Boen of Neptune Beach, who owned the area's oldest gay bar, died Tuesday night at Baptist Beaches Hospital of heart disease. She was 86. more info

03/11/2010
Coral reefs face new El Niño threat (Manila Bulletin)
An international conservation group warned Thursday that the current El Niño episode may have adverse effects on the recovering corals reefs in the country. Gregg Yan, information, education and communications officer of the World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines (WWF-Philippines), noted that during the 1997-1998 El Niño event, Apo Reef in Occidental Mindoro suffered heavily from increased sea ... more info

03/10/2010
New Caledonia Asks Australia For Reef Help (redOrbit)
New Caledonia asked for help from Australia on Wednesday to protect the world's second biggest reef, according to AFP. more info

03/09/2010
Who’d have thought that such ancient coral could survive us, too? (Herald Sun)
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the warming alarmist who keeps predicting catastrophe for the Great Barrier Reef, finds… more info

03/09/2010
January freeze killed acres of Fla. coral (UPI)
MIAMI, March 9 (UPI) -- A January chill in South Florida killed hundreds of acres of corals in the Florida Keys, scientists say. more info