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Discovering rare ‘sponge reefs’ and new corals with SeaRover When scientist launched the EU funded SeaRover project to explore the depths of Ireland’s oceans, no one expected them to make groundbreaking discoveries. […]
New study highlights the correlation between live corals and fishing yields. What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led […]
World-first robotic hand to help cultivate baby corals for reef restoration. A world-first soft robotic ‘hand’, developed by researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, could revolutionise the delicate, labour-intensive […]
Research identifies microorganisms that may be essential to the survival of coral reefs threatened by climate change. A study led by a researcher at the University of Stirling has identified […]
Protecting coral ‘nurseries’ as important as safeguarding established coral reefs. When imagining corals, the picture that comes to mind is usually a stationary one: a garden of rock-like structures covering […]
Omegor and World Sustainability Foundation to restore corals in Thailand. The world’s leading specialised Omega-3 food supplement producer, Omegor has collaborated with the World Sustainability Foundation (WSF) and Friend of the Sea to restore corals […]
Plastic pollution on coral reefs mostly comes from fishing activities, Nature study finds. In a paper published in Nature, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, University of […]
Scientists discover deepwater pristine reefs in the Galapagos. Scientists have discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR)—the first of their kind ever to be documented […]
Heat resistant corals in western Pacific. Ocean warming is driving an increase in the frequency and severity of marine heatwaves, causing untold damage to coral reefs. Tropical corals, which live […]
Health of coral reefs written in the sand – and visible via satellite. How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than 10 […]
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provided a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change. Study authors, including researchers […]
Bleached coral reefs continue to supply nutritious seafood giving unexpected hope for millions. Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected ‘bright spot’ of hope […]
Rising sea surface temperatures driving loss of 14% of corals since 2009. The newly released report, ‘Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020’, documents the loss of approximately 14 per […]
A future ocean that is too warm for corals might have half as many fish species. Predicting the potential effects of coral loss on fish communities globally is a fundamental […]
Time running out to save coral reefs. New research on the growth rates of coral reefs shows there is still a window of opportunity to save the world’s coral reefs—but […]
Corals carefully organise proteins to form rock-hard skeletons. Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who championed the theory of evolution, noted that corals form far-reaching structures, largely made of limestone, that […]
Sharks functionally extinct from many reefs – A new landmark study published in Nature by Global FinPrint reveals sharks are absent on many of the world’s coral reefs, indicating they […]
Little relief in the deep for heat-stressed corals. A team of NOAA scientists recently examined more than a thousand hot water events on coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean. Combining […]
Scientists research Caribbean reefs. A group of scientists from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), MARUM (Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen) and ZMT (Bremen) […]
US report on new approaches to conserve coral reefs. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) commissioned report from the National Academies has provided expert advice on novel approaches to […]
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