Coral reefs are famous for supporting colorful marine life, but new research reveals they have shaped something much larger: ...
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For More Than 250 Million Years, Coral Reefs Have Had a Major Influence on Earth’s Changing Climate
The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...
Coral reefs, crucial for marine biodiversity, are suffering immensely from climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, overfishing, and coastal development. Iconic reefs like the Great Barrier ...
As tropical corals reach a climate tipping point, Ireland's own cold-water coral reefs, deep in the Atlantic, are only just beginning to be understood.
Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate ...
Rising ocean acidity weakens corals, boosts algae and makes reefs flatter. Even small chemical changes reshape reef life.
PARIS – The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: At 1.5 deg C of global warming, most are expected to die. This is not a far-off scenario.
Coral reefs didn’t merely mirror global change, but helped regulate how fast the climate bounced back from massive surges of ...
Four years after Mars-owned pet food brand Sheba announced a global initiative to restore coral reefs, the business’s global VP Mindy Barry, and Professor David Smith from its marine science team, ...
Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...
University of Sydney marine biologists have identified a devastating combination of coral bleaching and a rare necrotic ...
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