Shorter New York Times: The salt water aquarium trade is killing the Florida Keys!Full disclosure: I used to hang out with a few people involved in this trade, usually over wine coolers and beer and panic over tests. So, yeah ( Read more... )

"Shadows on the Reef" continues, as the marine biologists head out to one more survey before winter conditions make diving completely impossible.(That part isn't mentioned in the article; when this section was originally written I had vague thoughts of summer/early fall in mind which ended up not working with the real life publishing realities. ( Read more... )

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