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Corals can bounce back from bleaching, if humans don't ruin it

World / Science & Health Dec 10, 2020

Corals can bounce back from bleaching, if humans don't ruin it

Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor but support a quarter of marine species, providing them with food and shelter.

Half of Great Barrier Reef's corals have died over past 25 years

Asia Pacific / Science & Health Oct 14, 2020

Half of Great Barrier Reef's corals have died over past 25 years

Half of the Great Barrier Reef's corals have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the underwater ecosystem. A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal found an alarming rate of decline across ...

‘A bit surreal’: The lonely plight of the Great Barrier Reef

Asia Pacific Aug 23, 2020

‘A bit surreal’: The lonely plight of the Great Barrier Reef

by Livia Albeck-Ripka

The pandemic has fast-forwarded a looming reckoning for the city of Cairns, the main gateway to the reef.

Seaweed replaced with tropical coral as global warming hits Japanese waters

National Aug 11, 2020

Seaweed replaced with tropical coral as global warming hits Japanese waters

Fishers in Chiba Prefecture now struggling to catch seasonal fish as seawater temperatures rise.

Okinawa's fragile coral threatened by 'Black Devil' killer sponge

National / Science & Health | Regional Voices: Okinawa Aug 7, 2020

Okinawa's fragile coral threatened by 'Black Devil' killer sponge

Terpios hoshinota is like a sheet of paper of about 1 millimeter thick, and attaches itself to coral’s calcareous skeleton.

'Cloud brightening' experiment may help cool Great Barrier Reef

World / Science & Health Apr 23, 2020

'Cloud brightening' experiment may help cool Great Barrier Reef

Researchers trying to save the Great Barrier Reef are attempting to cool the unusually warm sea temperatures using ‘cloud brightening,’ a geoengineering technique designed to reflect more of the sun’s rays away from the Earth. The researchers are spraying microscopic sea water droplets into ...

Asia Pacific / Science & Health Mar 26, 2020

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers coral bleaching again

Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has suffered its third mass coral bleaching in five years, according to early results of aerial surveys over the World Heritage site. "I saw coral bleaching both at the surface and as deep as 16 meters," the Climate Council said ...

Close to tipping point, Amazon forest could collapse within 50 years

World / Science & Health Mar 11, 2020

Close to tipping point, Amazon forest could collapse within 50 years

The Amazon rainforest is nearing a threshold that, once crossed, would see one of the world's largest and richest ecosystems morph into arid savanna within half a century, scientists said Tuesday. Another major ecosystem, Caribbean coral reefs, could die off in only 15 years if ...

World's second-largest reef, Mesoamerican Reef, now in decline

World / Science & Health Feb 15, 2020

World's second-largest reef, Mesoamerican Reef, now in decline

The condition of the world's second-largest coral system, the Mesoamerican Reef stretching from Mexico to Central America, has taken a turn for the worse and faces further threats from climate change, according to a report by a group of scientists. Extending nearly 1,000 km (620 ...

Brazil's navy scrambles to save Abrolhos coral reefs from mystery oil spill

World / Science & Health Nov 1, 2019

Brazil's navy scrambles to save Abrolhos coral reefs from mystery oil spill

With mystery oil slicks still moving down Brazil's coast, the Brazilian Navy sent more ships on Thursday to try to prevent the pollution of unique coral reefs of the Abrolhos Archipelago marine park, a haven of South Atlantic Ocean biodiversity. Marine biologists warn that the ...

As new disease wipes out Caribbean coral, scientists tear up reefs to stop the spread

World / Science & Health Sep 27, 2019

As new disease wipes out Caribbean coral, scientists tear up reefs to stop the spread

Off the coast of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a group of scientists is tearing a reef apart in a feverish attempt to save some of its coral. They are battling a fast-moving, lethal disease that researchers say is unprecedented in the speed ...

In breakthrough that could aid depleted reefs, Florida scientists induce spawning of Atlantic coral in lab

World / Science & Health Aug 23, 2019

In breakthrough that could aid depleted reefs, Florida scientists induce spawning of Atlantic coral in lab

Scientists in Florida have artificially induced reproductive spawning of an endangered Atlantic coral species for the first time in an aquarium setting, a breakthrough they say holds great promise in efforts to restore depleted reefs in the wild. The achievement, announced this week at the ...

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