A field expedition to investigate remote islands on the Great Barrier Reef has discovered the islands are growing.
Category: coral reefs
Unexpected hope for millions as bleached coral reefs continue to supply nutritious seafood
Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected ‘bright spot’ of hope for communities who depend upon them for food security.
Analysis: Obura et al Coral Bleaching Study: Models Used Misrepresent Warming Rate….”30% Too High”!
The headline of the agency report once again conveys threatening scenarios about the imminent death of “all coral reefs”, which cannot be justified or supported.
Bleached from a Distance
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog September 26, 2021 By jennifer I lent my underwater camera (Olympus TG-6) to a dear friend who recently visited Lady Elliot Island at the Great Barrier Reef.…
AIMR Playing “Frying Bacon” Sounds to Combat Coral Climate Damage
Scientists working to save coral reefs from climate change are testing whether underwater speakers continuously playing reef mood music, mostly the sound of predatory shrimp attacking prey, can attract more…
Claim: Coral reef cover, biodiversity, fish catches have declined by half since the 1950s
. “The effects of degraded and declining coral reefs are already evident through impacts on subsistence and commercial fisheries and tourism in Indonesia, the Caribbean, and South Pacific, even when…
What Corals Can Tell Us About Climate Change
“The public and politicians have been conditioned to associate ‘climate change’ with the destructive behaviour of generations of humans since the onset of the industrial revolution about 130 years ago.…
Claim: China Weaponising UN Protection For the Great Barrier Reef
China’s ongoing effort to punish Australia for opposing their South China Sea territorial ambitions has now allegedly extended to stacking the UN Heritage Committee.
World’s first, satellite-based monitoring system goes global to help save coral reefs
Today, the Allen Coral Atlas released the world’s first, real-time, satellite-based global coral reef bleaching monitoring system. Combined with the Atlas’ reef extent and composition maps, scheduled for completion in…
New Scientist: Bleaching Protects Coral – But Only Up to 2C of Global Warming
New Scientist has discovered that bleaching is a mechanism by which coral protects itself from abrupt warming (or cooling). But if global warming hits 2C, somehow all the coral will…
Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperatures
Coral reefs are highly sensitive to temperature change. Therefore, identifying those that respond differently to thermal stress aids in understanding the mechanisms of environmental adaptation in corals. In addition, researchers…
FSU researchers discover how ‘cryptic species’ respond differently to coral bleaching
“If we maintain the right type of diversity, nature in a way can pick the winners and losers,” Burgess said. “However, the worry for us scientists is that unless the…
Who Ate the Green Plate?
I’m so proud of the 360 underwater photographs taken along 36 transects that were laid in four different habitat types: at the reef front, in the back lagoon, at the…