{"673489":{"#nid":"673489","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sea Cucumber \u0022Nurseries\u0022 Could Protect Coral Reefs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs play a crucial role in the region\u2019s biodiversity, food security, employment, tourism, and medical research, but many reefs are suffering degradation due to pollution, ocean warming and overfishing. Growing sea cucumbers in underwater nurseries could be a way of restoring their services as \u201cvacuum cleaners\u201d of the ocean to protect the Asia-Pacific\u2019s declining coral reefs, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E suggest in their recently released study.\u0026nbsp;(This was also covered at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/environment\/sea-cucumber-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/2024\/03\/sea-cucumbers-clean-the-ocean.html\u0022\u003EGizmodo Japan\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Good Men Project\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs play a crucial role in the region\u2019s biodiversity, food security, employment, tourism, and medical research, but many reefs are suffering degradation due to pollution, ocean warming and overfishing. Growing sea cucumbers in underwater nurseries could be a way of restoring their services as \u201cvacuum cleaners\u201d of the ocean to protect the Asia-Pacific\u2019s declining coral reefs, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/mark-hay\u0022\u003EMark Hay\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=hIj0CIAAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003ECody Clements\u003C\/a\u003E suggest in their recently released study.\u0026nbsp;(This was also covered at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/newatlas.com\/environment\/sea-cucumber-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003ENew Atlas\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gizmodo.jp\/2024\/03\/sea-cucumbers-clean-the-ocean.html\u0022\u003EGizmodo Japan\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/goodmenproject.com\/featured-content\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Good Men Project\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2024-03-12 18:49:20","changed_gmt":"2024-04-11 14:44:04","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SciDev.Net","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/global\/news\/sea-cucumber-nurseries-could-protect-coral-reefs\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"565971","name":"Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"182537","name":"coral reef conservation"},{"id":"193538","name":"sea cucumber"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}