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RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT MARINE ISSUES

• NEW Haiti: Seven places where The Earthquake Money did and did not go, HaitiAction.net, Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, 1/3/2012

• NEW Saving the Coral, Martin Lorilla, The MIT Spectrvm, Winter, 2008

• NEW Documenting global coral reef restoration, a film by Seth Greenspan, September 2011

• NEW Sportsmen need to take lead to protect artificial reef fund, Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune, October 17, 2010

• NEW Gulf Fishermen Finding Sick Fish, Few Crabs and Shrimp, Linda Moulton Howe, Earthfiles, 2011

• NEW WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord, Environment, TheGuardian, 8.12.2010

• NEW Dead Coral Found Near Site of Gulf Oil Spill, John Collins Rudolf, New York Times, 11/5/2011
• NEW Reef Reborn – Into the Unseen World,  Most of Bali’s coral reefs have been destroyed. Coral bleaching and aggressive fishing have wiped out the reefs and much of the marine life. This is the story of a new technology which rebuilds coral reefs faster than they would naturally.
• NEW Kuwait’s coral is dying as sea warms up, James Calderwood, The National September 22. 2010
• NEW The Perils of Progress, Boracay, Philippines,  Mitch Moxley Journeys, The Caravan July 2010
• NEW Corralling Info on BP Spill & Coral, Daniel Edward Rosen, NY Daily News, 7/6/2010
• NEW Global Assault on Coral Reefs, What’s killing the great reefs of the world?, Lucy Bunkley-Williams and Earnest H. Williams, Jr., Natural History, April 1990
• Caribbean Marine Mass Mortalities: A Problem with a Solution, Earnest H. Williams, Jr and Lucy Bunkley-Williams

• A Life Support System for Ailing Coral Reefs, Phuket Gazette, 11.1.2005
• A Pacific Odyssey, (PDF) Caspar Henderson, Open Democracy, 16 September 2004 (See also on the same subject:
     Hotsarihie (Helen Reef) Project Report,  
     Hotsarihie (Helen Reef) Project Report Photos (1-26), 
     Hotsarihie (Helen Reef) Project Report Photos (26-55),
• A Pacific Odyssey, Caspar Henderson, Open Democracy, 16 September 2004
• A Rescatar Isla de Ratones, Nélida González, Redacción VISION, 3/26/2003, (English and Spanish)
• A Shore Thing for North Bali Kids, Teaching Children at Pemuteran, North Bali to Care for the Island's Shorelines and Reefs, Shown on balidiscovery.com Earth Day 2010.
• Addicted to Sand Pumping Despite Damages, Investigative Series: 2 of 3, Terry Gibson, Florida Sportsman, May 2005
• African Dust Storms Could be Killing Caribbean Reefs, Kathryn Winiarski The State, Columbia South Carolina
• Against All Odds, David Esponosa, Asian Diver, April/May 2004
• Arcas de Corales,  Gabriel Despaigne C., La Prensa Panamá, 23 de Septiembre de 2002  (Spanish)
• Arcas de corales, La Prensa,  Gabriel Despaigne C. September 2002
• ARCHE SAYA, Mare No. 34,Von Olaf Kanter, July 2004
• Articles about reef restoration projects and children's underwater education program, (In Chinese) Copel Magazine, Jun Li, August, 2008.
• Artificial Reef to be Removed Fort Lauderdale, Fla. USA
• Associazione L.I.S.A. (Life In the Sea Again), Project Lisa, July 2004
• Autopia by Volker Schmidt
• Bacterial Pathogens and Rising Temperatures Threaten Coral Health, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1/20/2008
• Balance Of Life, Djuna Ivereigh, Indonesia Minister of Culture and Tourism, IslandLife, 2002
• Bali Revisited in Depth, (PDF) ScubaDiver Australasia, Sue Crowe, Michael Aw,
• Bali Something Old, Something New, Always Predictable, (PDF) ScubaDiver Australasia, Michael Aw
• Beach Renourishment Stirs Doubts, Antigone Barton, Palm Beach Post, 12 05.05
• Biohazard? Scientist Alleges Clean-Up Hazardous, Queens Tribune, Michael Rehak, June 16, 2005,
• Biorock Coral Project, Agung Bali Nirvana, Bali
• Biorock Offers Hope in Restoring Reefs, Gulf News, Fran Gillespie, 3/12/2005
• Biorock Stimule la Repousse du Corail, (French) Novethic, Maxence Layet, 03/02/2005
• Biorock the Electric Advantage, Asian Geographic, Issue 2, 2005
• Biorock to ‘Build a Beach’ on Troubled Shores, The Peninsula, 6/1/2004
• Biorock: Le Recif Electrique, Plongeurs Dive Magazine, April 2005
• Biorock® Technology – Offering Hope for Coral Reef Restoration Around the World, Joni Lawrence, Editor, MarineBio.org
• Biorocking on Frankenstein Reef, Divernet, Diver Magazine, October, 2003
• Breathing Life into Dying Coral Reefs, Jay B. Hilotin,  Gulfnews.com, 07/05/2004
• Bt1.5m Project to Restore Coral Reefs Launched, Samui Express, January 26, 2006,
• Call for halt to Bakers Bay development, K. Nancoo-Russell, Freeport News 3/1/2007
• Can ‘electric oysters’ restore New York’s waters? Experiment aims to reestablish bivalves staggered by pollution, overharvesting, and disease. Moises Velasquez-Manoff| Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor/ October 9, 2008.
• Cancun, Nature at War Over Beaches, By Julie Watson, Associated Press, ENN Weekly: March 19th - 23rd
• Caribbean Coral Suffers Record Death, Ancient and Delicate Caribbean Coral Suffers Record Bleaching, Death, Seth Borenstein, ABC News, Copyright--Associated Press, Mar 30, 2006
• Coral Bleaching and Ocean Hot Spots, AMBIO, Journal of the Human Environment, 1994, T. J. Goreau1, R. L. Hayes
• Coral Bones, Will tropical coral reefs be the first ecosystem to be eliminated by global warming? Caspar Henderson, 11.9.2005
• Coral Reef Restoration in Komodo, BIWA Communique, 9/2003
• Coral Reefs: A Growing Concern, Discovery,  3/8/1999
• Corallo alla griglia, Prisma (Italian) PDF, March, 2003
• Corals in Peril as Reefs Suffer Worldwide, Kathryn Winiarski, USA Today, 10/19/1998
• Corals, Mangroves Good for Economy, Samui Newspaper, March 15, 2005
• Counties Flush Dirty Water Into the Ocean, Carl Hiaasen, MiamiHerald.com - 11/04/2007
• Efforts Afoot to Protect Bali's Coral Reefs, Louis Lebel, SeaSpan, 3/7/2002
• Efforts Afoot to Protect Bali's Coral Reefs, The Jakarta Post, February 19, 2002 Pariama Hutasoit, Contributor, Bali
• Efforts to Save Ailing Coral Reefs Should Continue, Scientists Say, Kathryn Winiarski, The State, Columbia South Carolina, 10/28/2000
• El proyecto Karang Lestari es el vivero de coral más grande jamás desarrollado en el mundo con electricidad, Marilyn August, Hablemos Online, September, 2004
• Electric Current Saves Corals in Indonesia, Mikhail Tsyganov, RIA Novosti, February 14, 2006 – Russian Information Agency, RIA (English translation), Click here to link to the original article with illustrations, in Russian.
• Electric Reef, Jo McFarlane, Jesper, Meyer ScubaGlobe Asia Pacific Vol 3, No. 1,
• Electric Reefs, Caspar Henderson, New Scientist, 6/7/2002   
• Electric Reefs, DiversAlertNetwork (DAN), Elizabeth Cook, Photos, Robert Yin,  September, October, 2007
• Electrically charged frames are being used to create the limestone on which coral lives, Sean Hargrave, The Sunday Times of London, 3/14/1999
• Electroshock para salvar corales, BBC Mundo.com, (Spanish) October, 2004
• Environment - Against All Odds, Asian Diver, David Espinosa, Scott Tuason, April 2004
• Eritrea's mangroves show way to fight hunger, Andrew Cawthorne, Hirgigo, Eritrea, Mail and Guardian Online, 21 May 2008
• Excessive Dredging Threatens Florida Marine Life Investigative Series: 1 of 3. By Terry Gibson, Florida Sportsman, April, 2005
• Fear land poisoned, Pols call for tests on site of planned homes, Donald Bertrand, Daily News, Boroughs 2/01/05
• Fighting Algae in Kaneohe Bay, Science, Volume 319, Issue 5860, dated January 11 2008
  Thomas J. Goreau;, Jennifer E. Smith, Eric J. Conklin, Celia M. Smith and Cynthia L. Hunter
• Florida site under threat from dredge-dump projects, Marine Scientist, 4Q 2003
• Following the Death of the Corals, Diario de Yucatan, Cozumel, November 23 2003, by Alejandro Moreno Pena. (English and Spanish)
• Giant Barnacle Brings New Life to Coral Reefs in the Maldivian Island of Ihuru, Angsana Resort, Maldives
• Global Coral Reef Alliance and Sun & Sea e.V.: Second BiorockT Workshop, United Nations Development Programme, October 2003
• Global Warming and Coral Reefs, Thomas J Goreau, openDemocracy, May 31, 2005
• Global warming and untreated Sewage pose threat to coral reefs, GulfNews, Jay B. Hilotin, 9/11/2004
• Grief on the Reef, NewScientist, March 5, 2004
• Groei rif door spanning. Duiken, Dutch journal 'Duiken, Antillian New,' St Maarten: April 2007
• Hilbertz y Goreau--Visionarios, Constructores, Buceadores, Vladimir Riera, Buceadores, 1999
• HK's taste for seafood wrecking region's reefs, Audrey Parwani, South China Morning Post, December 8, 2006
• How to Grow a Living Reef from Iron and Seawater, Casper Henderson, Financial Times, 2/11/2001
• Innovative Program to Resurrect Dying Coral Reefs Launched in Lombok, Vila Ombak Diving Academy, 1/03/2005
• Inselträume, Wolf Hilbertz will im Indischen Ozean ein Korallenriff erschaffen und darauf einen Staat gründen Berlin Online, Thorkit Treichel, October 2003
• Is the Sun Setting on Scrumptious Seafood?  John Cairns, Editor, Cairns Media Magazine, December 9, 2006 
• James Oysters. 
• Jolts of low-voltage electricity are reviving damaged coral reef off Indonesian resort, Marilyn August, Associated Press,   8/20/2004
• Korallenriffe unter elektrischem Strom, Tagesanzeiger.ch Von Daniel B. Peterlunger, July 2004
• L’eletro-stimulation au secours du corail et des homes, Maxence Layet, EfferveSciences,  10/11.2005 (French)
• La salvezza per i coralli?,  a cura della redazione GT,  La sedia elettrica, (Italian) Ecplanet, June, 2007
• La salvezza per i coralli?, Giornale Tecnologico, La sedia elettrica, 3.2005, (Italian)
• Locals, Officials Fume Over Toxic Foam, Queens Tribune, Asron Rutkoff
• Maldives Diving and Ecotourism, Banyan Tree, 5/2004
• Maldives Nurses Its Coral Reefs Back to Life, Haveeru Daily, Alan Wheatley , May 3, 2004
• Maldives Shorelines: Growing a Beach, Thomas J. Goreau, Wolf Hilbertz, & A. Azeez A. Hakeem, May 1, 2004
• Man-made ark charged with regrowing coral (Article about a Biorock installation), Edward Black, The Scotsman, 5/21/2005
• Marine Biology IT'S ALIVE!, Lance Leonhardt, Rodale's Scuba Diving, 12/2002
• Marine life hurt by development: Boro biologist, Alexander Dworkowitz, Bayside Times, 08/28/2003
• Marshall atolls declare emergency, BBC, Published: 2008/12/25 08:25:14 GMT
• Mind and Hand—and Rebar, Using renewable energy to restore Philippine coral reefs, Katherine Bourzac, Technology Review, May/June, 2007
• MODERNIZATION OF BALI: DIVINE OR DEMONIC?, Mikhail Tsyganov, RIA Novosti, AsianAffairs, September, 2007
• Mysterious New Diseases Devastate Coral Reefs, New York Times, Science Desk, August 19, 1997, Carol Kaesuk Yoon
• NAUKA Metalowy kwiat lotosu ożył,  Newsweek Polska, June 2004
• New Coral Reef Habitat, Gila Islands News, December, 2004
• New Horizons for Indonesia, I Gede Ardika, IslandLife, Special Edition, 2002
• New wave Coral Reef Rejuvenation, Asian Geographic, June/August 2000 (PDF)
• North Bali Reef Project - A Real Winner!, Bali Discovery Tours, 3/27/2005
• Not Waving, Drowning, Murray Hogarth, The Sydney Morning Herald Magazine, 12/19/1998
• Nursery of Artificial Reef in Tulamben, North East Bali, (PDF) International Warriors Divers Assoc., 3/2004
• Ocean Care Foundation Shows the Beauty of Coral, Expresses Concern About its Health, Wim Hart, Daily Herald Weekender, 9/24/2005
• Ocean Care’s Dream Comes True, First Artificial Reef Installed in St. Maarten Waters, The Daily Herald, Elaine Polack, 11/18/2006
• Odd Couple Seek Renewal of College Pt. Wetlands, Scott Sieber, Times Ledger.com, 04/28/2005
• Poor Results Prove Need for Overhaul of Beach-Fill Policy. Investigative Series: 3 of 3. , Terry Gibson, Florida Sportsman, June 2005
• Prana dedicates award to fishermen, Rita A.Widiadana, The Jakarta Post, Sanur, Bali, 2.23.
• Presentan Metodo Para Rehabilitacion de Isla Ratones, Rafael Suarez, De La Estrella de Puerto Rico, (English and Spanish)
• Program Defends Fish, Coral, Kathryn Winiarski, The State, Columbia South Carolina, 10/26/2000.
• Project to preserve the habitat of the turtle Chelonia mydas" Isla Aves, (Spanish) Venezuela, June, 2007
• Proposed Residential Complex In Queens To Be Built On Toxic Waste Dump,  NY1News, Susan Jhun, Jun 17, 2005,
• Pushing To Build Ahead Of Rezoning, Queens Tribune, Aaron Rutkoff, 8/5/2004
• RAFA POD PRĄDEM, Na stalowych prętach jak na grządkach rosną koralowce. To sztuczna rafa dokarmiana prądem elektrycznym, Wiedzaizycie, Dorota Wrońska, (Polish)
• Reef Dreams, The Australian, June 2004
• Reef Rescue Volunteers Take to the Air and Sea, Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, 3/1/2007
• Reef's continued downfall dismays divers, scientists, Palm Beach Post Antigone Barton January 03, 2006
• Rescate de Arrecifes, Lourdes Cruz Sosa, Diario de Yucatan, 11/19/2003. (English and Spanish)
• Restore reef habitat, says expert, Tia Belau (Palau) 2/7/2003
• Restoring New York’s Oysters, How volunteers and scientists are fighting an uphill battle to bring the mollusk back to the city’s waters, Eric R. Olson, Scienceline, September 10th, 2008
• Reviving Natures Bounty, Simple Technology Can Result in Spectacular Recovery for Dying Reefs, Samui Community Magazine, September, 2005
• Saving The Coral Reefs, The Green Millennium Club, July, 2004
• Saving the Corals, The Green Millennium Club online magazine, 1/2004
• Saya De Malha Bathymetric Survey Report, Dr. Thomas Goreau, Wolf Hilbertz, Frank Gutzeit, Lange Reihe, Funded by the Lighthouse Foundation, September, 2002,

• Saya De Malha, Complete Report, Dr. Thomas Goreau, Wolf Hilbertz, Frank Gutzeit, Lange Reihe, Funded by the Lighthouse Foundation, September, 2002, (2MB PDF)

• Scientists get funds to test College Pt. waterfront site, Cynthia Koons, Times Ledger, 11/26/2004
• Scientists Seek Return of Oysters to College Pt. Waters, Stephen Stirling, Times Ledger, 03/01/2007
• Senate to SoFla: No more poo-pumping, MiamiHerald.com, April 16, 2008
• Shock Treatment for Coral Restoration, Clark Boyd, BBC News, 10/8/04
• Shwerpunkt . KUNSTLICHE INSEL, Mare No. 34, Oktober/November 2002 (German)
• Silent Sentinels was originally broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 19/5/1999. This transcript contains Real Audio excerpts.
• Study Blasts Flushing Airport Plan, Aaron Rutkoff, Queens Tribune Online, 3/22/2004
• Study Blasts Flushing Airport Plan, Queens Tribune, Aaron Rutkoff, 3/22/2004
• Taman Sari Hotel Reef Project, Bali, April, 2002
• The Electric Reef That Just Keeps Growing!, Michael Cortenbach, Vila Ombak Diving Academy, Lombok Times, Issue 32, May, 2006
• The Most Unique Reef System in South-East Asia, (PDF) SeaScience, Asian Geographic
• The Reef Electric – Bio Rock, Innovative Program to Resurrect Dying Coral Reefs Launched in Lombok, Bali Discovery Tours, 1/3/2005
• The Reef Electric – Bio Rock.  Innovative Program to Resurrect Dying Coral Reefs Launched in Lombok, Bali Discovery Tours, 1/3/05
• The Reef Is Dying: Officials Rethink Why, Mark Howell, Reef Relief, 12/10/2004
• The Submerging Republic of the Marshall Islands, What do you do when your island home is in the cross hairs of climate change and faces forever being swallowed by the tide of a rising ocean?"  12.13.2009
• The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan, Why plastic is the scourge of sea life, The Independent, Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden, February 5, 2008
• Third Generation Artificial Reefs, Wolf Hilbertz, Thomas Goreau, Ocean Realm, Summer, 1998
• Tide Turns Toxic On College Point Waterfront, Aaron Rutkoff, Queens Tribune, 11/04/2005
• Tire Reef off Florida Proves a Disaster, Brian Skoloff, AP, Feb 16, 2007
• Tulamben Newsletter, Nursery of Artificial Reefs in Tulamben, Northeastern Bali, 8/2004
• Turning the Tide, Samui Newspaper, March 15, 2005
• Un Corallo per Alassion, Mondo Somerso, 7/2004 (Italian)
• Un Cunero Para Los Corales,  Suplemento Científico Técnico EN RED, La Habana. Cuba
• Underwater Regeneration, Biorock Reefs, Underwater Life-support Systems for Ailing Reefs are Helping Return Samui to its Original State, Kevin Luton, SI-Samui, February, 2006
• US Group Calls for Project to be Dumped, Keva Lightbourne, Nassau Guardian, 3/1/2007
• Wenn Inseln von alleine wachsen, Geoscience Online, Wolfgang Hilbertz, July 2004
• We're Killing our Beaches. "Renourishment" projects are destroying our beaches., Byorrin Pilkey, Independent Weekly, 8/17/2005
• What Lies Beneath: Scientist says homes may be built on dirty soil, Aaron Rutkoff, Queens Tribune, 1/21/2005
• You are what You Fish, Jim Harper, Biscayne Boulevard Times, 8/2006

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