March 5, 2020 By Martin Wisckol The Mercury News
While 10 or more of Southern California’s 27 offshore oil rigs could be closed in the next decade, there’s a push to preserve the platforms’ habitat-rich underwater bases as artificial reefs — and possibly transform the tops into windmills, sea farms or marine research centers. But there’s a problem.
Palau’s marine sanctuary backfires, leading to increased consumption of reef fish
February 26, 2020 By Bernadette Carreon The Guardian
Palau’s much-touted marine sanctuary has backfired, with the fishing ban leading to an increased consumption of the reef fish in the western Pacific country – such as grouper, snapper and parrotfish – that the marine sanctuary promised to protect.
Microbes Point the Way to Shipwrecks
February 21, 2020 By Katherine Kornei The New York Times
Distinct microbiomes flourish around sunken ships as they become artificial reefs, new research in the Gulf of Mexico reveals.