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 […]
By Jake Johnson In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected habitat for the sake of profit, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation rolling back an Obama-era order and opening nearly 5,000 square miles off the coast of New England to commercial fishing. “We’re opening […]
A healthy coral reef is a noisy place. “You’ve got this constant crackling sound. … That’s the sound of snapping shrimp,” says Steve Simpson of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. “Then on top of that, pops, grunts, growls, trumpeting sounds, whooping sounds … and these are generally made by fish that are […]
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 […]
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, […]
The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. The Australian government is trying to buy its crown jewel some time, but is it willing to support what the reef needs most — a reduction in emissions? A few weeks ago, the world’s greatest coral reef suffered its third major bleaching event in five years, the most […]
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 […]
Tropical coral reefs are at a critical tipping point, and we’ve pushed them there, scientists say. Climate change may now cause previously rare, devastating coral bleaching events to occur in tropical coral reefs around the globe on a ‘near-annual’ basis, reported The Guardian. In February 2020, record-high sea temperatures at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef caused […]
The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching event, according to scientists who conducted aerial surveys over hundreds of individual reefs, as The Guardian reported. According to NBC News, the entire Great Barrier Reef is suffering a period of unprecedented heat stress. This bleaching event […]
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