Word: reefs
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...Academy of Sciences in San Francisco looks like the old MGM lot back when they used to shoot five pictures at one time. Caterers hauling pumpkins are brushing past construction workers sweeping out the man-made rain forest. Divers in wet suits are hauling themselves out of the coral-reef tank. And Renzo Piano, the Italian architect who is very good at finding order in chaotic situations, looks pleased...
...August in the journal PLoS One by Thierry Work, a wildlife-disease specialist at the U.S. Geological Survey, and his colleagues. The corallimorph were probably attracted to the leaching iron, a valuable nutrient in the sea, says Work. Since the organism, which sparsely populates other parts of the reef, grows fast, is aggressive and reproduces in three different ways, it outcompeted other marine life on the reef. "It's a carpet of living animals that destroyed all the other organisms underneath," said Work. "We were able to show man-made structures were responsible for the growth of these organisms...
...some cases, ships are purposely introduced to the underwater landscape. In 2006 the U.S. Navy sank the decommissioned WWII aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., in the Gulf of Mexico and turned it into an artificial reef. It is the first and so far only artificial-reefing project undertaken by the Navy Inactive Ships Program, which is charged with disposing of old warships (which are typically dismantled and recycled or turned into museums). It took nearly $20 million to ready the ship for safe sinking in accordance with standards set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...Reef Rescue Congratulations to florida for be-coming a world leader in the protection of coral reefs [Aug. 4]. Many governments are taking the easy option and closing reefs to both fishing and tourism. Only in Florida has the state government had the initiative to buy the sugar industry out of the mangrove swamps. Protection of these wetlands will ensure cleaner water around the nearby coral reefs, greatly improving their health. If more governments around the world recognized the interaction between reefs and nearby ecosystems, many more reefs would have a chance at survival. Virginia Graham, Glen Iris, Victoria...
...mark the edge of what, before crime hollowed out downtown Johannesburg, were some of the most imposing city blocks on the continent, stands an intriguing vision of Africa. Here, the Yung Chen Noodle Den and the Sui Hing Hong Wholesale and Chinese Gift Company rub shoulders with the Gold Reef Restaurant. "Ah, Africa," sighs William Lai, 60, as he gazes out across the great plains of parking lots that define Johannesburg's Chinatown. "Where I was born. Where my children were born. Home...