Word: coral
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...took Marine Biology, and they would be showing slides of Bali, or of coral reefs in Australia,” she says. “I would miss the tour sitting there in class and realizing that I could actually be out there in other parts of the world doing exciting things. It was pretty hard getting into study mode...
...really about beach clothes--it's about beach dressing now," says Stefani Greenfield, owner of Scoop, a trendy specialty store with outposts in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. "It's all about this ethnic-inspired, nouveau-bohemian look. Think Mykonos or Santorini with those colors, coral and turquoise...
With help from the Japanese, the Maldivian government has shored up Mal's perimeters with sea walls and breakwaters (at a cost of $60 million, about 10% of the nation's gross domestic product in 2002). It has also taken steps to protect the living coral breakwaters that shield the rest of the island chain. Among other things, it has banned the mining of coral stone that for centuries has been used by villagers to construct mosques and houses. But what the government can't control is the temperature of the surrounding ocean--and that does not bode well...
...reason? Healthy reefs are capable of growing upward in response to higher sea levels. But when ocean temperatures rise too high, coral polyps become susceptible to a disease known as bleaching, so-called because it involves loss of the symbiotic algae that not only provide the polyps with essential nutrition but also color their tissues. Like a fever, bleaching is not necessarily fatal, but can be if ocean temperatures stay too high for too long. That's what happened seven years ago, when a prolonged heightening of sea-surface temperatures, triggered by the 1997-1998 El Nio, ripped through...
...countries that dot the southern half of the world's largest ocean are known for their peaceful, sand-ringed islands and their sun-drenched coral atolls. But the problems of the nuclear age are intruding on this tranquillity. Last week the 13-nation South Pacific Forum met in Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands, to consider a treaty declaring the area between the equator and Antarctica and between Australia and South America a nuclear-free zone. Eight members, including Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa and tiny Niue (estimated population 3,400), signed the treaty. Four others are expected to ratify...