Gee, it seems like only last week that we read about how the crown of thorns starfish was destroying the Great Barrier Reef. And now by the most amazing coincidence researchers have a promising bacterial fix for the problem. Isn’t that just great! Wonderful how serendipity works.

Hey, lets give them heaps of research funding!

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-australia-scientists-tackle-reef-killing-starfish.html

And sometime in the last couple of weeks I’m sure I heard an item along the lines of….we didn’t realize before, but actually, the crown of thorns does a sort of reef pruning job that might well be part of the natural cycle. I don’t recall where I heard it, but it would have been Radio National or 774 from Melbourne.

buffy said:

And sometime in the last couple of weeks I’m sure I heard an item along the lines of….we didn’t realize before, but actually, the crown of thorns does a sort of reef pruning job that might well be part of the natural cycle. I don’t recall where I heard it, but it would have been Radio National or 774 from Melbourne.

it could also have been on deadly 60 but I remembr seeing the story

buffy said:

And sometime in the last couple of weeks I’m sure I heard an item along the lines of….we didn’t realize before, but actually, the crown of thorns does a sort of reef pruning job that might well be part of the natural cycle. I don’t recall where I heard it, but it would have been Radio National or 774 from Melbourne.

I recall MV saying something like that as he was involved in research with it 10-20 years ago.