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    Lab-Grown Corals May Prevent Reef Bleaching

    Lab-Grown Corals May Prevent Reef Bleaching

    By Johan Augustin In a lab on Australia’s east coast, scientists are concocting what they hope will be the solution to the steadily worsening problem of coral bleaching. Few people understand the Great Barrier Reef, and the challenges it faces, better than the scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). And events of […]

    Corals Turn Bright Neon in Last-Ditch Effort to Survive

    Corals Turn Bright Neon in Last-Ditch Effort to Survive

    Viruses, pollution and warming ocean temperatures have plagued corals in recent years. The onslaught of abuse has caused mass bleaching events and threatened the long-term survival of many ocean species. While corals have little chance of surviving through a mass bleaching, a new study found that when corals turn a vibrant neon color, it’s in […]

    Coral Rescue Team Races to Save Endangered Corals From Mystery Killer

    Coral Rescue Team Races to Save Endangered Corals From Mystery Killer

    Six years ago, during a global coral bleaching event and after the Port of Miami was dredged, endangered corals on Florida’s coral reef began rapidly wasting away and dying. Their “mystery killer,” whose exact pathogen still remains unidentified, is referred to as the “Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease” (SCTLD). In response, scientists launched an unprecedented, […]

    2020 Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Event Is Most Widespread to Date

    2020 Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Event Is Most Widespread to Date

    The Great Barrier Reef‘s third mass bleaching event in five years is also its most widespread, according to new data released Tuesday. Professor Terry Hughes, director of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, spent nine days in a plane surveying 1,036 reefs from the air, The Guardian reported. He […]