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		<title>Corals in trouble by middle of this century</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2012/01/corals-in-trouble-by-middle-of-this-century.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly one-third of CO2 emissions due to human activities enters the world's oceans, making them less alkaline and affecting calcification of corals. By the middle of the century, corals at the Northern edges of the tropics will be in trouble with the Hawaiian island reefs will be among the first to feel the impact.]]></description>
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		<title>Creature of the Month: Yellow Saddle Goatfish Work Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yellow saddle goatfish are a common site on the reefs of the Red Sea. A team of scientists from Switzerland though have discovered that these fish exibit very unusual behaviour: they work together to catch their dinner. The researchers claim that similar co-operation has only been identified in a handful of species &#8211; primarily mammals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live fast and die young: same-sex sexual behaviour in a deep-sea squid</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2011/09/live-fast-and-die-young-same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-a-deep-sea-squid.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a study published today in Biology Letters, male squid were found to routinely and indiscriminately mate with both males and females. ]]></description>
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		<title>Soft Coral is Reef Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have long believed soft corals, one of the many endangered elements of marine life, are only minor contributors to the structure of coral reefs. But that&#8217;s not true, says new research from Tel Aviv University.
A new in-depth analysis of reefs in the South China Sea has revealed that massive parts of the reefs are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping Coral Disease Clusters in the Caribbean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral in the Caribbean has disappeared because of a disease of unknown origin. 
Now, scientists from the University of Florida have used a GIS (geographic information system) to show the whereabouts of the clusters of diseased coral.  Their findings, published in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Warn of Unprecidented Marine Exctinctions</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2011/06/iucn-warn-of-unprecidented-marine-exctinctions.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We knew it was bad, but it is even worse than we thought. World rushing heedlessly towards global marine extinctions.]]></description>
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		<title>Jellyfish blooms move food energy from fish to bacteria</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2011/06/jellyfish-blooms-shunt-food-energy-from-fish-to-bacteria.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years reports of jellyfish blooms around the world have been increasing. This is bad news for the marine food web, as the jellyfish are voracious predators of plankton, but are not readily consumed by other predators.  New study shows that jellyfish shunt food energy from fish toward bacteria.]]></description>
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		<title>How Life on the Surface affects Life on the Seafloor</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2011/02/how-life-on-the-surface-affects-life-on-the-seafloor.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of a comprehensive database has revealed strong links between biological productivity in the surface oceans and patterns of biomass and abundance at the seafloor, helping to explain large regional differences. 
The vast majority of the biological production in the world’s oceans occurs within sunlit surface waters – the &#8220;photic zone&#8220;. Through the process of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish mucous cocoons: the mosquito nets of the sea</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2010/11/fish-mucous-cocoons-the-mosquito-nets-of-the-sea.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have found that fish have developed their own mosquito nets in order to get a good night's sleep. 
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		<title>New Species of Squid Found</title>
		<link>http://news.scubatravel.co.uk/2010/11/new-species-of-squid-found.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a new, large, species of squid in the Indian Ocean. The squid was found during a seamounts cruise in the southern Indian Ocean. Seamounts are typically deep, steep-sided, extinct volcanoes which are extremly important for life in the oceans.]]></description>
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