Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers most extensive coral bleaching
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered its most extensive coral bleaching event in March, with scientists fearing the coral recovers less each time after the third bleaching in five years. February, 2020, was the hottest month on record since records began in 1900, Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral […]
Disaster under the waves: the race to save the coral of the Caribbean
Key West, Florida, USReuters Emily Hower, a research assistant at Nova Southeastern University doing field work on coral off Key West in Florida, bobs up out of the water and removes her diving mask. The news is not good. Most of the pillar coral that her team have been monitoring for years are dead. A […]
OCEAN CONSERVATION: COLOMBIA’S ISLAND FISHERMEN DIVE INTO BATTLE TO PROTECT CORAL REEFS
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as climate change and growing tourism hurt coral, Colombian efforts to “garden” new coral – and save incomes – are paying off…