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Mapping our coasts is critical for the conservation of coral reefs, atolls, mangroves, islands, estuaries, seagrass beds and ...

The plan was part of an executive order issued in 2023 that set an ambitious timeline to build a coral pipeline to restore the ailing reef. Now labs are scrambling to shuffle funding or risk losing ...

The study, published in Coral Reefs, tests how winters influence coral sensitivity to bleaching—either priming them to cope with heat stress or leaving them more vulnerable in the subsequent summer.

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In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

University of Guam researcher Dr. Laurie Raymundo conducting a health assessment of a bleached Acropora muricata thicket in Apra Harbor, Guam, October 2017. Credit: Dave Burdick Benefits to society ...

MIAMI — Scientists have created an AI model that forecasts moderate heat stress — a major precursor to coral bleaching — at sites along Florida’s Coral Reef up to six weeks ahead, with predictions ...

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human actions, including ...

Tristan Salles receives funding from Australian Research Council. Laurent Husson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...