Earth Hour 2019: Switch Off Your Lights

Earth Hour 2019: Switch Off Your Lights

The World Wildlife Fund is inviting citizens, cities, businesses, and institutions to turn off all unnecessary lights for one hour on Saturday evening, March 30. via WWF We live in an interconnected world. Every action we take impacts life around us, and increasingly...
Mystery Animal

Mystery Animal

This is a colonial tunicate well known to science as Botrylloides leachii (Savigny 1816). It is sometimes called the Ladder Ascidian and is seen in a range of color forms, this being the most distinctive. (Note: Its name is commonly misspelled as “Botrylloides...
Hot Zone Corals: Gaining immunity to bleaching?

Hot Zone Corals: Gaining immunity to bleaching?

New study finds that coral reefs exposed to frequent temperature stress may be adapting to warming temperatures, while those further from the Equator remain more vulnerable MELBOURNE, FLA. — Ocean warming is threatening coral reefs globally, with persistent thermal...