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Coral Bleaching
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Reef relief: how a late summer monsoon helped cool the Great Barrier Reef at just the right time
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a true natural wonder: a unique and diverse underwater seascape the size of…
Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
Kai Kopecky, University of Colorado Boulder and John Kominoski, Florida International University People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death…
Two decades of research show Indonesia’s coral reefs are heat‑tolerant — but only up to a point
Tries Blandine Razak, IPB University Indonesia is home to the world’s largest and most biodiverse coral reef system,…
Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life
Kai Kopecky, University of Colorado Boulder and John Kominoski, Florida International University People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death…
Massive marine heatwave caused Caribbean coral reefs to collapse much faster than predicted – new research
Chris Perry, University of Exeter and Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) For decades, coral reefs…
In 2024, the climate crisis worsened in all ways. But we can still limit warming with bold action
abstractaerialart/Getty Thomas Newsome, University of Sydney and William Ripple, Oregon State University Climate change has been on the…
Safe no more: off-the-charts marine heat has severely damaged Ningaloo and other pristine coral reefs
Safe no more: off-the-charts marine heat has severely damaged Ningaloo and other pristine coral reefs James Paton Gilmour, Australian…
Ancient fossils show how the last mass extinction forever scrambled the ocean’s biodiversity
Even bivalves looked different during the time of the dinosaurs, as these fossils of an ultra-fortified oyster, left,…
Will surging sea levels kill the Great Barrier Reef? Ancient coral fossils may hold the answer
marcobriviophoto.com Jody Webster, University of Sydney; Juan Carlos Braga, Universidad de Granada; Marc Humblet, Nagoya University; Stewart Fallon,…
Reality check: coral restoration won’t save the world’s reefs
A coral ‘rope’ nursery in the Maldives. Luca Saponari/University of Milan, CC BY-ND Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders…