Guest “How did they miss this?” by David Middleton PRESS RELEASE / OCTOBER 26, 2020 AUSTRALIAN SCIENTISTS DISCOVER 500 METER TALL CORAL REEF IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF–FIRST TO BE DISCOVERED IN…
Category: coral reefs
Claim: Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs
Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification is affecting corals’ ability to build their skeletons, but it has been challenging to isolate its effect from that of simultaneous warming ocean…
University Appeal Upheld, Peter Ridd Loses – We all Lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when he called-out his colleague Terry Hughes for falsely claiming healthy…
Study: Coral Reef Islands Grow with Rising Sea Level
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Another study confirming that coral reef islands are dynamic, and adjust rapidly to changes in sea level. NEWS RELEASE 10-JUN-2020 Island ‘drowning’ is not inevitable as…
CSIRO Scientists Accidentally Prove Coral Rapidly Adapts to Global Warming
Guest essay by Eric Worrall CSIRO Scientists have subjected coral symbiont algae to heat stress over four years, and produces a strain of algae which can help coral thrive in…
Coral tells own tale about El Niño’s past
Rice, Georgia Tech study in Science reveals Pacific temperatures over a millennium Rice University Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb samples an ancient coral for radiometric dating. She is part…
Coral reefs in Turks and Caicos Islands resist global bleaching event
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the…
NYUAD researchers find new method to allow corals to rapidly respond to climate change
Reef-building corals transmit epigenetic adaptations to their offspring that can combat the effects of global warming New York University IMAGE: Ras Ghanada reef in Abu Dhabi Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi…
Scandalously Bad Science – No Data on Coral Growth Rates for 15 Years
Reposed by request from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog January 2, 2020 By jennifer CORALS are animals, closely related to jelly fish, but they differ in having a limestone skeleton. This is…
Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island?
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s blog Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island? November 21, 2019 By jennifer We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to…
Researchers describe a survival strategy in living corals which was only seen in fossil records
Heatwaves in the Mediterranean University of Barcelona Some corals can recover after massive mortality episodes caused by the water temperature rise. This survival mechanism in the marine environment -known as…
Marvelously Resilient Coral
Guest post by Jim Steele Published October 2, 2019 in California’s Battle Born Media newspapers – the Pacifica Tribune, the Novato Advance, the Sausalito Marin Scope, the Mill Valley Herald,…
Extreme mangrove corals found on the Great Barrier Reef
The first documented discovery of ‘extreme corals’ in mangrove lagoons around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is yielding important information about how corals deal with environmental stress University of Technology Sydney…
Aussie Government: UNESCO Should NOT cite Climate Risks to the Great Barrier Reef
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Adding to the confusion of Australia’s approach to international climate change diplomacy. Australia pressures Unesco over impact of climate change on Great Barrier Reef Lisa…
Inconvenient Study: Sea level rise likely not to drown low-lying Pacific atolls
By H. Sterling Burnett A new study published in Geology, the journal of the Geological Society of America, indicates even if seas continue to rise, low-lying islands and atolls, such…
What’s really killing the Coral Reefs?
From ScienceAlert! There’s Another Thing Killing The Coral Reefs, And We Can Actually Fix This Problem CARLY CASSELLA 17 JUL 2019 Coral reefs are one of the most threatened ecosystems…
Study: Pacific Islands Will Survive Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Who could have imagined that islands which survived rapid sea level rise at the end of the last ice age have no problem coping with…
More Evidence for Rapid Coral Adaptation
By Jim Steele Good news continues to accumulate regards corals’ ability to rapidly adjust to changing climates. The view of coral resilience has been dominated by the narrative of a…
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