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Coral Reefs in Crisis: Why Traditional Conservation Is No Longer Enough

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Vast areas of climate-resistant coral reefs found: study

Conservationists Install Artificial Reefs Where Corals Once Stood

Miles of coral reef around Pom Pom Island in Malaysia have been ruined by climate change and blast fishing. A conservation group hopes to restore the area by installing concrete st...

New Coral Study Identifies Areas Where Reefs Are Hanging On

New research has identified areas around the world where cooler currents and other favorable conditions are helping to protect coral from the worst effects of global warming.

As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat

Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.

Abu Dhabi’s Coral Promise to the Future

VICTORIA, Seychelles, July 3 (IPS) - In just the first half of this year, Abu Dhabi’s Environment Agency has cultivated 302,415 new coral colonies, bringing the total under the Ab...

Scientists Found the Coral Reefs That Can Survive Climate Change

Some coral reef ecosystems have a far greater chance of surviving the effects of climate change than previously understood, according to new global research. About 166,000 square k...

Twenty Nations Unite To Save Resilient Coral

The global movement to safeguard marine biodiversity reached an inspiring milestone at the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. Five new nations—Kenya, Comoros, the Dominic...

There’s a bit of good news for coral reefs

NAIROBI, Kenya — As spiking ocean temperatures are devastating reefs around the world, a handful of scientists have found a reason for cautious optimism. They’ve used artificial in...

Can Concrete Molds Revive Coral Reefs Ruined by Bombs and Climate Change?

In a devastated section of the Coral Triangle in the Pacific Ocean, a conservation group is trying to build an artificial reef.

Coral preservation efforts at Hawaii island bay are paying off

In September 2015, the coral reef off of Kahaluu Beach was not doing well.

New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap

Conservation groups have launched a new initiative to safeguard coral reefs in Yap, a state in the Federated States of Micronesia, through both scientific innovation and traditiona...

The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction

Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new interventions have revealed that corals can be remarkably resilient if we can give...

Can Coral Reefs Be Resuscitated? Scientists May Have A Solution

Each time we see a photograph of bleached coral reefs, we feel saddened — there is no greater iconography of the climate crisis that surrounds us. The United Nations warned this mo...

Africa: Hope Exists for Coral Reefs, But Scientists Warn Time to Act Is Running Out

[allAfrica] Mombasa -- For years, the story of coral reefs has been written as dying, doomed, gone. Coral reefs have been framed as ecosystems in irreversible decline, threatened b...

Kent Carpenter spent half a century counting the life of Philippine reefs

By some accounts, in the Philippine reefs of the 1970s, large groupers appeared every 50 feet or so. Some seemed as large as Volkswagen Beetles. Around them were snappers, fusilier...

500-million-year fossil record reveals corals' symbiotic advantage shifted with changing environments

Coral reef ecosystems, widely seen as a climate change bellwether, are more complex than previously understood. A new international study by the universities of Bristol, Wuhan in C...

Africa: When Coral Reefs Die, Coastal Communities Pay the Price

[allAfrica] Mombasa, Kenya -- For decades, the outlook for the coral reefs has been increasingly bleak.

Save our endangered kelp forests

Until recently, the main threats to kelp and coral reefs were overfishing and pollution. Now it’s our warming seas. The post Save our endangered kelp forests appeared first on West...

Coral reef conservationists brace for active hurricane season

The Nature Conservancy and its partners across the Hawai'i Emergency Reef Restoration (HERR) Network are working to restore coral broken off in the recent Kona Low storms, while al...

Scientists Have Found Climate-Resistant Coral Reefs Around the World Totaling the Size of Wisconsin

A sophisticated AI-powered examination of coral reef resistance extrapolated into the future found that there’re about 64,000 square miles of coral reefs on Earth that could still...

Bouncing back: Coral preservation efforts at Kahalu‘u are paying off

In September of 2015, the coral reef off of Kahalu‘u Beach was not doing well. The post Bouncing back: Coral preservation efforts at Kahalu‘u are paying off appeared first on West...

Is Malaysia risking its world-class coral reefs for offshore oil?

Every booking inquiry that lands in dive operator Richard Swann’s inbox these days carries the same undertow of anxiety. Before his clients commit to a dive trip off Kota Kinabalu,...

Proposed Sai Kung marine park to cover most coral reefs: Hong Kong authorities

A planned marine park in waters surrounding Sharp Island in Sai Kung will cover most coral reefs, Hong Kong authorities have said, allaying a green group’s concerns about insuffici...