Two special marine sessions will be part of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility's "Climate Adaptation in Action 2012" conference in Melbourne on 27 June 2012.

Both rising ocean temperatures and ocean acidification pose serious long-term threats to coral reefs, but findings recently published in the prestigious scientific journal, Science, have helped clarify the relative impact of these two threats to date. In their study on reefs off the coast of Western...

Recent experiments conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) produced striking results, showing for the first time that corals hosting a single type of "zooxanthellae" can have different levels of thermal tolerance – a feature that was only known previously for corals with a mix...