Article: Cold-Water Corals Highlighted as New Global Conservation Challenge on World Environment Day 2004; UNEP and Canon Also Launch 2004-2005 International Photographic Competition `Focus on Your World'.

Article: Cold-water corals abound, as do threats.(Spectrum)
Environment;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Cold-water corals, which live in deeper waters than ... scientific knowledge held that cold-water corals, generally found 200-1,000 meters ... technologies, scientists have found cold-water corals off the coasts of more than 40 countries ...

Article: SHALLOW-WATER CORALS MORE RESISTANT TO BLEACHING ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... algae that live mostly in shallow-water corals of the Caribbean provide resistance ... sun. They also found that deeper-water corals host other Symbiodinium types that are ... researchers say this may explain why deeper-water corals with non-clade A symbionts bleach ...

Article: MARINE SPECIES: UNEP ISSUES WARNING ON COLD-WATER ...
Europe Environment;  June 10, 2004 ;     480 words ... ... Unlike their tropical cousins, cold-water corals live in deeper water (200 to 1,000 ... vulnerable to deep-water fishing. Cold-water corals are present off more than 490 countries ... comprehensive review to date of cold-water corals, will be released at the beginning ...

Article: Shallow water corals evolved in the deep sea
The Hindustan Times;  June 18, 2008 ;     474 words ...Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, June 18 -- A new study has shown that the second most diverse group pf hard corals first evolved in the deep sea, and not in shallow waters. Stylasterids, or lace corals, diversified in deep waters before launching

Article: Roundup: New findings of cold-water corals suggest ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 4, 2004 ;     660 words ... ... Day, titled "Cold-Water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight ... said that "the cold-water corals, mysterious and generally ... now discovering cold-water coral reefs in many of the ... Mediterranean. However, cold-water corals grow slowly - only a ...

Article: Mysterious cold-water corals need protecting
China Daily;  July 6, 2004 ;     637 words ... ... entitled "Cold-Water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight ... said that "the cold-water corals, mysterious and generally ... now discovering cold-water coral reefs in many of the ... Mediterranean. However, cold-water corals grow slowly - only a ...

Article: Living fossils: climate change threatens to dissolve the ocean's ...
Earth Island Journal;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... part of deep-water corals' importance ... identified 349 deep-water coral species new to ... that many deep-water corals are endemic ... record, cold-water corals are what Roberts ... ocean's deep-water coral is yet another ...