9 stories tagged with #coral-reefs, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
⌘ RSS feed for this tag → or search "Coral Reefs"
El Niño could bring more widespread coral bleaching, NOAA warns
The expected arrival of El Niño this summer could trigger another mass coral bleaching event, which would be the fifth on record, researchers said.…
Papua New Guinea will protect 200,000 km² in the Bismarck Sea from fishing and all other destructive human activity, sheltering an extraordinary breadth of life: coral reefs, seabirds, sharks, dolphins, whales, and deep-sea species, all threatened by global warming, overfishing and plastic pollution
Even careful scuba divers can damage coral reefs
Hours of diving videos and hundreds of survey responses reveal the common diver mistakes that can cause irreversible reef damage.…
Can Concrete Molds Revive Coral Reefs Ruined by Bombs and Climate Change?
South China Sea coral reefs reveal carbon stores rivaling mangroves and seagrasses
More than 1,000 uncharted coral reefs mapped in vast, understudied northern Australia
Scientists have layered hundreds of satellite images to reveal more than 1,000 previously uncharted coral reefs in the turbid waters of northern Australia. The number is comparable…
New conservation effort launched to protect coral reefs in Yap
Conservation groups have launched a new initiative to safeguard coral reefs in Yap, a state in the Federated States of Micronesia, through both scientific innovation and traditiona…
As coral reefs are wiped out from bleaching, this one brings hope
In the midst of a mass coral bleaching event along the West Australian coast, a group of scientists have discovered a section of reef that has been able to withstand the heat.…
How hard-surface feeding unlocked a burst of reef fish evolution 50 million years ago
Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it's because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces.…