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Coral Reefs

UN Ocean Conference Opens With a Call to Defend the Deep Sea

Marine experts say governments must protect fragile ecosystems from destructive practices such as bottom trawling and deep sea mining to combat the climate crisis.

By Teresa Tomassoni

Workers handle a fishing net next to a commercial trawler docked at the port of Nea Michaniona in northern Greece on May 22. Credit: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images
WHOI marine biologist Amy Apprill conducts a visual survey of a degraded coral reef in St. John to count the number of young corals that have recently settled on the reef. Credit: Dan Mele/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands

By Teresa Tomassoni

Fish swim over a reef affected by coral bleaching from extreme heat on May 8, 2024, in Trat, Thailand. Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Every two weeks at the beach of Costa del Este, in Panama City, marine biology students descend about five meters in the sea to take care of a coral nursery of the staghorn species in Portobelo, Panama, with which they aim to restore reefs damaged by climate change and pollution. Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

Global Scientific Community Urges World Leaders to Transform Research Into Policy Ahead of UN Ocean Conference

By Teresa Tomassoni

Alizee Zimmermann applies antibiotic paste to a star coral affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Patricia Guardiola Slattery

Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

By Teresa Tomassoni

A member of the Coral Restoration Foundation brings up threatened coral transplants from the Florida Keys waters for safe keeping on land during a marine heatwave on July 24, 2023 near Islamorada, Florida. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Federal Report Details More of 2023’s Extreme Climate Conditions

By Bob Berwyn

Bleaching of soft Gorgonian corals had never been documented in the western Caribbean until the summer of 2023. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

NOAA Declares a Global Coral Bleaching Event in 2023

By Bob Berwyn

Coral on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, in September 2021. Record warm ocean temperatures this summer are leading to what scientists fear may be a global bleaching event. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images.

For Florida’s Ailing Corals, No Relief From the Heat

By Amy Green

A pair of raccoon butterflyfish swim the reef off Palmyra Atoll while a scientific diver conducts research in the area as part of a month-long expedition to study the health of the reefs associated with the Line Islands, which are remotely located in the Pacific Ocean close to the equator. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

In the Pacific, Some Coral Survived the Last El Nino, Thanks to Ocean Currents

By Lydia Larsen

Aerial view of a heavily touristed reef near resort developments near Sharm El-sheikh, Egypt. Runoff from landscaping at the resorts is a potential threat to the health of the reefs. Credit: Bob Berwyn

The Red Sea Could be a Climate Refuge for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A diver checks the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Major bleaching is occurring on the coral reefs of the islands in French Polynesia. The marine biologist teams from the Centre for Island Research and Environmental Observatory, specialists in coral ecosystems, are working on “resilient corals.” The teams identify, mark and perform genetic analysis of corals that are not impacted by thermal stress. They then produce coral cuttings which are grown in a “coral nursery” and compared to other colonies to study the resilience of the corals. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images).

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

A diver looks at reef of a major bleaching on the coral reefs of the Society Islands on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn

Great Barrier Reef. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Latest Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef Underscores Global Coral Crisis

By Bob Berwyn

A turtle swims over bleached corals. Coral reefs are critical habitats for young fish and other sea life. Credit: NOAA

Climate Change Is Transforming the Great Barrier Reef, Likely Forever

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Coral bleaching in the Maldives. Credit: The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey

Coral Bleaching Subsiding After 3 Extreme Years, but Recovery Could Take Decades

By Bob Berwyn

A diver among the corals of Flower Garden Banks

The Coral Reefs You Never Heard of, in the Path of Trump's Drilling Plan

By Marianne Lavelle

Seaweed off the coast of Ireland

Key Link in Ocean Food Chain Endangered

By Katherine Bagley

coral reef off the Florida coast

Is It Too Late for the World's Oceans?

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

Thailand: Dive Sites Closed Due to Coral Bleaching

By David Wilson

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