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For people who are not experts, what are the signs of a collapsing reef system? Firstly, less color, because there’s less ...
Reefs occupy just 1% of the world’s marine environment, but they provide a home to a quarter of marine species—including a unique set of fish, turtles and algae.
A new study conducted by researchers from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama ...
It's also important to Florida. A large part of our fishing industry survives on fish that breed and grow in the coral reef. "It also supports over 71,000 jobs and generates over $6.3 billion in ...
A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. ENVIRONMENT ...
More than 40 countries are pledging to raise $12 billion to protect the world’s coral reefs from threats such as overfishing and human pollution. The new initiative, Coral Reef Breakthrough, was ...
[Related: World’s largest known deep-sea coral reef is bigger than Vermont.] While disease treatment can help, it does not remove it from a coral population, the way that simply treating a cold ...
This ocean warming has led to more coral reefs being bleached than ever before. Prior bleaching events in "1998, 2010, and 2014-17 saw 21%, 37% and 68% of reefs subjected to bleaching-level heat ...
While scientists studied a coral reef ecosystem in the South Pacific, rising temperatures led them to believe it was doomed. Then, something miraculous happened.
The state's Environmental Protection Authority is signaling it will reject this A$30 billion project, known as Browse, which is part of Woodside's much larger Burrup Hub project.