03 Jun 2025
Image: Deep sea corals – Oleksandr Sushko Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, scientists are pioneering efforts to revive ancient coral ecosystems damaged by the spill. In a significant stride for marine conservation, U.S. scientists have embarked on an ambitious project to restore deep-sea coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico, severely impacted […]
29 Apr 2025
More than 80% of the world’s coral reef areas have been exposed to the worst mass bleaching event on record, spurred by record high ocean temperatures that have spread like an underwater wildfire over corals across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. According to the new report released by the International Coral Reef […]
25 Mar 2025
Image description: Bleaching at Lakeside Reef Front, Ningaloo. Photograph: Zoe Richards/Curtin University / The Guardian. Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs, Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east, are experiencing mass coral bleaching events simultaneously. Reef experts are reporting the events as “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”, in […]
19 Nov 2024
Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals following a global assessment announced at the ongoing COP29 UN climate conference in Azerbaijan. Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt. Credit: Renata Romeo / Ocean Image Bank The conservation […]
21 Jan 2024
Covering 6.4 million acres, an underwater seascape of cold-water coral mounds off the southeast United States coast has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef habitat discovered to date, according to a paper recently published in the scientific journal Geomatics. The reef extends for about 310 miles from Florida to South Carolina and at some points reaches […]
14 Jun 2021
For the first time, grooved brain corals rescued from a disease outbreak and maintained in human care have been bred with wild corals that survived the disease, in a collaborative restoration initiative between scientists at the University of Miami (UoM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and The Florida Aquarium. This breakthrough research effort […]
18 May 2019
Greenpeace – Unearthed life support videos – two links below – these are succinct and to the point (4.5mins each) and convey key ideas on how living marine systems provide us with life support. Greenpeace: We started our Life Support series with a stark message from one of the world’s leading scientists: the destruction of […]
09 Jul 2018
The UK has formally signed the Coral Reef Life Declaration, joining a global effort to bolster research and safeguard the world’s coral reefs from climate change, ocean acidification, human activity and rising sea temperatures. The UK’s intention to sign the Declaration was first announced in April ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, with the UK […]
