coral reefs

Coral reef bleaching is stark evidence of the damage being inflicted by global climate change on marine ecosystems, but a research team led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine has found some cause for hope. While many corals are dying, others are showing resilience to increased sea ...

Organized over a period of almost three years, the Tara Pacific expedition has made it possible to study some of the most isolated coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Indeed, given their isolation, many of these reefs remain scantly documented. This is the case of the Samoan Islands in Polynesia. The scientists ...

St Kitts has launched an important new program to study the state of coral reefs. The St Kitts Department of Environment, in collaboration with the Department of Marine Resources, has installed a Coral Reef Early Warning Systems at the island's Paradise Reef. The initiative aims to better understand what is ...

For coral reefs around the world, time is running out. That bad news for reefs is also bad news for the rest of the ocean and for humanity, since we depend on the planet's seas. One-third of the 3,863 reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — went ...

New study says mankind has permanently messed up the ocean's coral reefs ... If the ocean's coral reefs have one arch enemy, it's definitely humans. ... Now, scientists studying the devastation of the largest coral reef system on the planet are delivering the worst possible news: we've permanently things up.

Scientists aboard a Greenpeace ship have discovered a massive and unique coral reef near the mouth of the Amazon, in an area where the French company Total intends to drill for oil. The 1,000km long and 56,000 sq km Amazon coral reef is a biome thought to contain dozens of undiscovered species ...

In his book Coral Reefs of The World, Charles Darwin called Belize home to “the most remarkable reef in the West Indies.” As we head further out, ..... “When coral reef countries come together, Belize is always seen as a leader,” said Melanie McField, the founder and director of HRI. Oceana scientist Tess ...

Like other coral reefs around the world, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is facing big threats from climate change — such as warmer and more acidic seawater and increased ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. Last year experts said large sections of the reef were essentially dead, bleached into oblivion.

At the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Central Pacific, researchers found CM expanding and smothering otherwise pristine coral reefs in an area near a shipwreck. Starting in 2007, USGS scientists and partners surveyed the CM-infested coral reef before and after removal of the shipwreck.

Jennie Webber's illustrations are the big draw in The Coral Kingdom (Words and Pictures, £12.99, 4+) a picture-poem that celebrates “the coral reef, beautiful beyond belief”. Written by Laura Knowles, the book explores the diversity of coral colonies and the cornucopia of life it shelters and sustains.

Over the years there have been several technologies developed to tackle the issue of coral reef destruction, like robots that repair coral reefs after being impacted by trawling, but this one is one of the few specifically addressing coral bleaching. The film needs to undergo more testing before it can be piloted ...

Gulf of Mexico coral reef dodges bullet from Hurricane Harvey, scientists report. Updated March 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM ; Posted March 29, 2018 at ... "Coral reefs are extremely important as nursery areas for many species of fish," he said. "They are just an incredible ecological system and, I would say, one of ...

Several dozen seamounts that lie in international tropical waters may support coral reef habitats, including twilight coral reefs, so called because they thrive in deep waters where little sunlight penetrates. Many of these open-ocean coral reefs have never been explored, and because they aren't protected by ...

Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface—termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)—is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe. Although submarine groundwater is natural, it can act as a conduit for highly ...

How much is a coral reef worth? Factor in the tourism it rakes in, the fish that live there and nowhere else, the fishing industry it supports. How about a reef's ability to protect coasts from destructive, pounding waves — how much do you figure that'll run you? A future without them is bleak, and increasingly ...

... of the coral reef was dead,” says Lisa Wedding, research associate at the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University and a lead author on a paper describing the research, which appears in PLOS ONE. “These are some of Hawaii's most vibrant coral reefs, so we were heartbroken—and determined ...

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- While there are many reefs in the waters around the Diego Garcia Atoll just South of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, one particular reef serves a function like no other. Detachment 1, 21st Space Operations Squadron, call sign “REEF,” is responsible for ...

Coral reefs don't just harbor unique ecosystems that take millennia to grow. ... "What we found was that if you lost the health of your coral reef, if it lost its structural integrity and its live coral cover, you could get waves that were larger than what were predicted due to high sea levels," said Daniel Harris, ...

Lead author Bradley Eyre from Southern Cross University and co-authors found that sands, which provide material for building and maintaining coral reefs, will begin to dissolve due to increasing ocean acidity. In addition, their paper shows coral reef sediments dissolve at a rate that is ten times more ...

Off the coast of Southeast Florida, a mysterious new disease is killing coral reefs, turning them white and leaving nothing but a skeleton behind. More than half of the state's 330-year-old Coral Reef Tract, which stretches across 175 miles in the Florida Keys, is infected with the disease. It's called “white ...

Since the allotment of a P500-million budget for the rehabilitation of damaged coral reefs in 2016, DENR's Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) Director Theresa Mundita S. Lim told the BusinessMirror last week in a telephone interview that new coral-reef areas were discovered which will add spice to ...

If your mental image of coral reefs is one of lifeless rocky outcrops on the ocean floor, “Saving Atlantis” will correct that misconception. ... Oregon State University's first feature-length documentary tells the story of the rapid decline of coral reefs around the world through the eyes of the people who depend on ...

“The dire situation is here now,” Dr Mark Eakin, coordinator of the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch, told the committee at its first meeting last week. Proposals being suggested by scientists range from genetic modification of corals to geoengineering the ...

As the world's oceans heat up with climate change, coral reefs are increasingly under threat. Bleaching events ... The UCLA study indicates that as the world continues warming with climate change, coral reefs are likely to grow more slowly. ... “They rely on that coral reef for fish every single day of the week.

A mysterious disease hammering Florida's dwindling reefs was found for the first time this week in the Lower Keys, alarming scientists who have used epoxy Band-Aids, amputated sick coral and even set up underwater "fire breaks" in a four-year battle to contain the outbreak. Mote Marine Laboratory ...

We're currently facing the worst bleaching of coral reefs ever known in history, but what would happen if all the coral reefs died off? We've already lost ... In fact, some estimates predict we are 300 to 400 times more likely to find new drugs from coral reef ecosystems than land-based ones. But that's only if ...

It's long been known that sharks help nourish coral reefs, but exactly how—or to what extent—has never really been mapped out. Until now. A study with grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), a predatory species commonly associated with coral environments but whose wider ecological role has ...

Researchers studied reef sands at Heron Island, Hawaii, Bermuda and Tetiaroa. In this photo, white areas show the predominance of sand on reefs. Credit: Southern Cross University. Carbonate sands on coral reefs will start dissolving within about 30 years, on average, as oceans become more acidic, ...