Millions of people and species of wildlife depend on coral reefs. While climate change threatens their future, science shows that corals can adapt and survive if we keep them healthy.
As you dine, be sure to look for sharks, sea turtles and rays as they swim in this wondrous coral reef. And did you know? Coral reefs are crucial to the biodiversity of the world's oceans. They cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, but provide food and shelter to over 25% of ...
Owing to their remoteness, broad spatial coverage and cross﹋urisdictional locations, there are no high‐resolution remotely sensed maps available at the global scale. Here we present a framework that is capable of mapping coral reef habitats from individual reefs (~200 km2) to entire barrier ...
The Coral Restoration Foundation is a non-profit ocean conservation organisation which has created a unique method of cultivating corals on ‘coral trees’ that has been implemented in several locations around the world, includingBonaireand more recently, on the Great Barrier Reef. The four nurseries...
Although recognized as a global concern, the distribution and quantity of plastics trapped in the world's coral reefs remains uncertain. Here we survey 84 shallow and deep coral ecosystems at 25 locations across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean basins for anthropogenic macrodebris (pollution ...
are also important sources of new medicines that treat cancer and other diseases. While scientific knowledge about coral reefs, their structure, function and responses to pollution and stresses has increased over the past few decades, the state of reefs globally has declined, at almost the same ...
Coral Reef Inhabitants Coral Reefs are one of the most beautiful and important habitats on Earth. They cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, yet over 25% (that's 1 quarter) of marine species depend on this habitat in… SEA LIFE Bangkok, Coral Reefs Find Out More Clownfish Did you ...
By the end of 2014, about 300 reef locations will have been recorded, including the Great Barrier Reef, 10 countries in the greater Caribbean region, and the Coral Triangle region. While many of the stresses on coral reefs originate from local sources, such as fishing activity and pollution,...
AThe Great Barrier ReefDescriptionThe Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reefsystem composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islandsstretching for over 2,300 kilometers over an area ofapproximately 344,400 square kilometers. The reef is located inthe Coral Sea, off the ...
It is not just one continuous reef, but a complex system of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands 3. Aurora Borealis Location: Various locations in the Northern Hemisphere, including Alaska, Norway, and Finland Type of wonder: Astronomical The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern...