Alaskan Coral Beds Get New Protection
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By Raloff, Janet  ENVIRONMENT  Huge tracts of delicate coral gardens and soft-coral forests off the coast of Alaska will be permanently protected from fishing gear that targets groundfish and shellfish by scraping the seafloor.
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Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski  announced on Friday the creation of a new state agency to  oversee oil and gas infrastructure as a response to the  widespread pipeline corrosion that partially shut the giant  Prudhoe Bay oil field in August.
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By Anonymous  In what is seen as the largest coral protection effort in the region, Continental Shelf Associates (CSA), based in Jupiter, Florida, successfully moved some 4,500 coral colonies from future gas pipeline corridors for Qatargas.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 3--How the dangerous pathogen Myxobolus cerebralis got into Alaska's fisheries is something scientists may never know.
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A rare break in rough Bering Sea weather is allowing officials to gain a better sense of damage from a large spill in the Aleutian Islands.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where  a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days,  needs the type of environmental protections that are given to  better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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The collapse of two Antarctic ice shelves is offering scientists a glimpse of rarely seen species&#8212;and at how pristine ocean ecosystems respond to sudden change.&#149; See photos >>
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More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the stateâs struggling timber industry.
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About 70 percent of the world's coral reefs have been wrecked or are at risk from human activities but some are showing surprising resilience to global warming, a report said on Monday.
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Rising sea temperatures will boost coral growth, according to Australian research that flies in the face of predictions that climate change could spell death for the world&#39;s coral reefs.
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The discovery of florescent proteins in corals and sea anemones has provided new tools to researchers studying AIDS, cancer, and other diseases.
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America's favorite deep-sea sponge is coming to the surface.
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Sea erosion brings an urgency to archaeologists' work, as bodies emerge on the shoreline of northern Alaska.
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Canada announced the discovery of three coral &quot;hot spots,&quot; which the World Wildlife Federation urged Tuesday must be protected from commercial fishing.
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Corals stressed by warming conditions may benefit from the passage of a hurricane &#151; as long as it doesn't slam right into them. Bleaching of corals has been a growing problem in recent years with the loss of algae or reduction of pigment in the living corals that occurs when they are stressed by warming water.
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Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third because of increased ocean warming, according to a new Australian study which contradicts the long-held belief that global warming is destroying the reefs.