Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half of Its Coral in the Last 27 Years ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) — The Great Barrier Reef has lost half its coral cover in the last 27 years. The loss was due to storm damage (48%), crown of thorns starfish (42%), and bleaching (10%), according to a new study published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesby researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville and the University of Wollongong.Share This:112See ...
Updated 10-08-2012 at 09:40 PM by melev
OK I have a theory and only a theory. As long as I have been keeping fish I am drawn to odd shaped fish like copperbands and long nose butterflies but I could never keep them as long as most other fish and looking back there were two causes for their deaths. One was jumping out. For some reason those types of fish like to jump. I lost about half of them from that. The rest of them died from something else. Last year I lost a copperband that got a bump and then a sore on it's side just before dying. ...
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