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- Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2021-22 12 comments
- Google Coral AI Board Steps Out of Beta to Battle Raspberry Pi – HotHardware https://hothardware.com/news/google-coral-ai-board 3 comments
- Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis 28 comments environment
- Seventy percent of Florida’s coral reefs are eroding, new study finds https://news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/stories/2022/12/seventy-percent-of-floridas-coral-reefs-are-eroding-new-study-finds.html 16 comments science
- Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/great-barrier-reef-areas-show-highest-coral-cover-seen-in-36-years.html 14 comments climate
- The Great Barrier's coral comes back https://theaustralian.com.au/the-oz/news/record-coral-cover-for-great-barrier-reef-australian-institute-of-marine-science/news-story/e62b55f8c4952451da2911460c79c86c 9 comments climate
- Corals convert sunscreen chemical into a toxin that kills them https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/corals-convert-sunscreen-chemical-into-a-toxin-that-kills-them/ 4 comments science
- One of the world’s leading coral scientists claims a sixth mass bleaching event is unfolding across the Great Barrier Reef. Observations from the Bureau of Meteorology show water temperatures at between 1C and 2C above average across wide areas of the reef. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/great-barrier-reef-hit-by-sixth-mass-bleaching-event-leading-coral-scientist-says 17 comments environment
- ‘There’s not much hope’: Mediterranean corals collapse under relentless heat https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/theres-not-much-hope-mediterranean-corals-collapse-under-relentless-heat/ 299 comments worldnews
- Climate change killed 14% of the world’s coral reefs in a decade, study finds | “We can reverse losses, but we have to act now,” a U.N. official warned. https://wapo.st/3uEOTR6 64 comments environment
- Climate change killed 14% of the world’s coral reefs in a decade, study finds | “We can reverse losses, but we have to act now,” a U.N. official warned. https://wapo.st/3uEOTR6 15 comments climate
- “Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds.” Environment needs to be top political priority. https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/barrier-reef-doomed-as-up-to-99-percent-of-coral-at-risk-report-finds-20210331-p57fng.html 7 comments politics
- Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report finds. Environment needs to be top political priority. https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/barrier-reef-doomed-as-up-to-99-percent-of-coral-at-risk-report-finds-20210331-p57fng.html 8 comments science
- Australian scientists find huge new healthy coral reef off northern coast. https://reuters.com/article/sciencenews/idukkbn27e0uh?il=0 28 comments science
- The Florida Aquarium just made a breakthrough that will help save the third largest coral reef in the world https://www.albanyherald.com/news/world_nation/the-florida-aquarium-just-made-a-breakthrough-that-will-help-save-the-third-largest-coral/article_1e52a4da-19e4-5e8e-ae11-0ac6230e86f5.html 5 comments worldnews
- Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/since-2016-half-the-coral-in-the-great-barrier-reef-has-perished/558302/ 35 comments worldnews
- Next generation ‘may never see the glory of coral reefs’ - Undersea forests, bleached and killed by rising ocean temperature, might disappear in a few decades, experts warn https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/11/next-generation-may-never-see-coral-reefs 110 comments worldnews
- Palau bans sunscreen to protect coral reefs: "Palau will ban reef toxic sunscreen by 2020 in an effort to protect its coral reefs after the president of the country signed a bill into law." https://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2018/11/05/palau-bans-sunscreen-protect-coral-reefs/1855857002/ 6 comments economy
- Scientists grow baby coral on Barrier Reef. http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientists-grow-baby-coral-on-barrier-reef-20171126-p4yx7v.html 184 comments worldnews
- Scientists discover population of “super corals” that appear to have become resistant to extreme environmental conditions—being able to survive and thrive in hot, acidic, and low-oxygen waters. And they now plan to search for more climate-adaptable coral populations within the Great Barrier Reef. http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2017/05/searching-super-corals-living-edge 8 comments science
- This coral from the Red Sea thrives under global warming simulations, researchers reported in Royal Society Open Interface, giving them hope reefs will survive climate change. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleno/49464/title/a-coral-to-outlast-climate-change/ 647 comments science
- 99% of coral reefs to be impacted by climate change, study says http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article124752339.html 626 comments science
- Great Barrier Reef not likely to survive if warming trend continues, says report. Report projects by 2050 more than 98% of coral reefs will be afflicted by ‘bleaching-level thermal stress’ each year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/09/great-barrier-reef-not-likely-to-survive-if-warming-trend-continues-says-report 39 comments worldnews
- Coral reefs fall victim to overfishing, pollution aggravated by ocean warming | "The end result is a global decline of coral reefs that is now reaching catastrophic proportions" http://phys.org/news/2016-06-coral-reefs-fall-victim-overfishing.html 4 comments science
- Analysis of fossil corals and mollusk shells from the Pacific Ocean reveals there is no link between the strength of seasonal differences and El Niño. This contradicts the top 9 climate models in use today, which associate exceptionally hot summers and cold winters with weak El Niños, and vice versa http://news.usc.edu/89793/current-climate-models-misrepresent-el-nino/ 4 comments science
- Scientists attempt to breed 'super coral' to save threatened reefs - Researchers in Hawaii are using an assisted evolution experiment to grow coral that can withstand the hotter & more acidic oceans caused by global warming http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/05/scientists-attempt-to-breed-super-coral-to-save-threatened-reefs 4 comments worldnews
- Corals are already adapting to global warming, scientists say http://phys.org/news/2015-06-corals-global-scientists.html 15 comments science
- The Great Barrier Reef is under siege. About half of the reef’s coral died between 1985 and 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-great-barrier-reef-is-under-siege/2015/03/23/cd478050-bd21-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html 51 comments worldnews
- AFP : "Fears over plastic-eating coral in Australia's Barrier Reef" https://bulletnews.net/news/fears-over-plastic-eating-coral-in-australias-barrier-reef 3 comments worldnews
- A coral reef far from the coast of Australia made a surprising recovery from being decimated by El Nino. The reason? There were no humans to hunt plant-eating fish that protected the larvae. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/scienceshot-coral-reef-back-from.html?ref=hp 5 comments science
- Lad from the town next to me had 1p on 8 correct scores to win a million, he was one off. Good guy Coral with some amazing marketing here! https://twitter.com/coral/status/304345556778622976 54 comments soccer
- USS Guardian gets stuck and damages World Heritage-listed coral reef in the Philippines, ignores warnings from park rangers http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-21/stranded-us-navy-ship-ignored-warnings3a-philippines/4476824 3 comments worldnews
- Rapid coral death by a deadly chain reaction, oxygen depletion, together with an acidification of the environment, creates a chain reaction that leads to coral death. http://www.mpg.de/5810970/coral_death_chain_reaction 14 comments science
- WAY TO GO BP: USGS finds 2,000-year-old coral near BP Gulf well http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/mar/31/310704/usgs-finds-2000-year-old-coral-near-bp-gulf-well/news-breaking/ 7 comments science
- Massive Coral Die-Off Found Just 7 Miles from BP Oil Spill Site http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/11/08/massive-coral-die-off-found-just-7-miles-from-bp-oil-spill-site/ 193 comments science
- The death of coral reefs would mean no more stable nutritional source of protein for 1+ billion people that rely on fish. http://www.csmonitor.com/from-the-news-wires/2010/0326/death-of-coral-reefs-could-devastate-nations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+feeds%2Ftop+%28christian+science+monitor+%7C+top+stories%29&utm_content=google+reader 5 comments science
- This is a video of a Fungia plate coral eating a prepared coral food. The video is sped up several times. http://www.asaquaculture.org/15.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Half a century after being subjected to more than 20 nuclear tests, Bikini Atoll boasts a flourishing coral reef – but the coconuts are radioactive http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13668-nuked-coral-reef-bounces-back.html 104 comments science
- Woman gets arrested for disputing $3 on a bill in Coral Gables...how did this become a 'criminal' matter? http://www1.wsvn.com/features/articles/helpmehoward/mi63676/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Cayman coral reefs 'critical' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/05/12/etcayman112.xml 2 comments reddit.com