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Mysterious Coral Disease Ravaging Caribbean Reef
07/09/2019
Off St. Thomas, the disease is moving faster and killing more corals than any disease before….
Deadly Coral Disease Spreads Through Sand
02/06/2022
Sand at the bottom of the ocean can transmit stony coral tissue loss disease, which has killed millions of coral colonies, according to a new study. This finding could help mitigate transmission of the disease, which has spread throughout Florida and the Caribbean since 2014…..
Remote Indian Ocean Reefs Bounce Back
03/24/2022
Coral reefs in remote or protected areas can recover quickly after mass coral bleaching events, new research shows…..
Student Researchers Improve Coral Restoration Efforts
03/24/2022
A study published recently in Coral Reefs and led by University of Hawai’i (UH) at Mānoa student researchers revealed that exposing rice coral larvae to warmer temperatures did not improve survival once the coral developed into juveniles and were exposed to heat stress…..
GREAT BARRIER REEF: Australia confirms new mass bleaching event
03/25/2022
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is being devastated by another mass bleaching event, officials have confirmed. It is the fourth time in six years that such severe and widespread damage – caused by warm sea temperatures – has been detected….
Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022
05/10/2022
Coral bleaching affected 91% of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year, according to a report by government scientists that confirms the natural landmark has suffered its sixth mass bleaching event on record…
Senators Hirono, Schatz, Rubio, Scott Introduce Legislation to Restore, Conserve Coral Reefs
12/19/22
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would promote the conservation of coral reefs in the United States. The Restoring Resilient Reefs Act of 2019 would reauthorize and modernize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, which expired fifteen years ago…