Located in the exotic Southwest Pacific Ocean, almost exactly halfway between Vanuatu and Tonga, Fiji is a spectacular archipelago consisting of 332 islands and 522 isles, lying about 3,100 kilometers from Sydney, Australia and a little over 5,000 kilometers Southwest … Read more
Corals are colony-forming polyps, invertebrates (backboneless animals) that excrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, which forms the coral reefs. The polyps live in symbiosis with photosynthetically active algae (zooxanthellae). The algae supply the coral polyp with nutrients such as glucose, glycerol … Read more
Ocean acidification is the ongoing increase in the acidity of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Increasing acidity is having harmful consequences for marine organisms, such as altering metabolic rates and immune responses … Read more
Sounds strange? Those are two words most people do not interconnect with each other. But upon hearing the term, you can associate the word blue with the ocean and the word carbon makes you think of carbon dioxide. So you … Read more
BY: DAVID PATON,1, NADINE GIBBS1 and PHIL CLAPHAM2 1Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre, PO Box 157 Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia 2Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA INTRODUCTION On 11th March 2003, the Fijian … Read more
The Fijian Cicada (Raiateana knowlesi) is a periodic cicada that is endemic to the primeval forests on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. Cicadas are grasshopper-like insects that occur on all continents. Well over 45,000 species have been described … Read more