This study provides insights into the functional roles of microbial symbionts within the reef-building coralAcropora kenti. The findings reveal molecular mechanisms underpinning coral health and adaptation to local environmental stressors, which may support host resilience in the face of anthropogenic clima...
ringing alarm bells about the health of the world's oceans. Seventy-seven percent of the world's coral reefs have experienced "bleaching-level heat stress" over the last 22 months. Derek Manzello, coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, joins CBS News to dive deeper into the ...
Corals are tiny animals that live in large communities made up of individual polyps that secrete a calcium carbonate substance that hardens and builds up to form the reef structure over time. There are different types of corals, such as brain corals and fan corals, that form different types of...
Recovery of Coral Reefs in Great Barrier Reef08 Aug 2022 8 min readTags: GS Paper - 3 Conservation Environmental Pollution & Degradation For Prelims: Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Corals, Acropora corals, Coral bleaching. For Mains: Significance of Coral Reefs in Marine Ecosystem.Why in News?
Australian government scientists say 91% of the Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed this year was bleached in the fourth mass event in seven years.
"We brought up the most amazing and colorful animals I have ever seen on an expedition." Sadly, not all news about the reef is good. The whole area has been earmarked for oil exploration. Dr Yager warned that: "From ocean acidification and ocean warming to plans for offshore oil explorat...
A group of scientist divers discovered a massive reef of rose-shaped corals between 98 and 213 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface near French Polynesia’s Tahiti islands, UNESCO announced on Thursday, January 20, 2022. The reef st...
August 4, 2022 / 7:41 AM EDT / CBS News The central and northern stretches of Australia's Great Barrier Reef are showing the highest coral cover seen in 36 years, showing that the fragile UNESCO World Heritage site could still recover from decades of damage, a monitoring group reported Thu...
< Reef News Index 28th of September 2022 Before and after - Impressive coral bommie restoration research projectIn July 2018, Quicksilver embarked on an Australian-first collaborative reef research and restoration project with scientists from Reef Ecologic to restore a cyclone impacted coral bommie. ...
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