Etiqueta: Coral
Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs
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Krista Sherman understands ocean conservation work takes a good deal of patience. But the Bahamian-born marine scientist had never encountered a foe like stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), and after efforts to m...
Death fears for ancient Western Australian coral formation
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On Western Australia’s stunning Ningaloo coast, a coral bommie that began life 1,000 years ago sits ghostly white in the green waters of Bill’s Bay. Experts aren’t 100% sure but they strongly suspect the death of the ...
Coral bleaching under way at Ningaloo reef as Western Australia battles heat
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Conservationists say they have have recorded evidence of coral bleaching under way at Ningaloo off Western Australia’s north-west coast. It comes just as the Great Barrier Reef on the other side of the country undergo...
Reef ball burials: the new trend for becoming ‘coral’ when you die
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Janet Hock is a former dentistry professor who lives in Indianapolis. She is also an avid scuba diver, with a long love of the ocean. “We plod around on Earth, but there’s this whole other world that teems with life –...
Coral lipstick tells the world you feel happy
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Many of us are conducting the bulk of our work virtually. But the sartorial etiquette of Zoom meetings is still tricky. Rocking up as you would if you were taking the bins out feels out of step. But then dressing up –...
Coral crusaders: Costa Rica’s young divers learn to protect their seas
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“I put fresh almond leaves in your underwater masks as anti-fogging – a way to avoid using chemicals. You can remove them once in the water, just before diving,” says Salim Vasquez, 14, pushing her dreadlocks away fro...
All coral reefs in western Indian Ocean ‘at high risk of collapse in next 50 años'
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All coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean are at high risk of collapse in the next 50 years due to global heating and overfishing, according to a new assessment. From Seychelles to the Delagoa region off the coast o...
Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs
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A Nobel prize-winning economic theory used by investors is showing early signs of helping save threatened coral reefs, los científicos dicen. Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland used modern portfolio theory (...
La cobertura mundial de coral se ha reducido a la mitad desde la década de 1950, hallazgos de análisis
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La cubierta de arrecifes de coral del mundo se ha reducido a la mitad desde la década de 1950, devastado por el calentamiento global, sobrepesca, contaminación y destrucción del hábitat, según un análisis de miles de estudios de arrecifes. Desde las 1,430 millas (2,300km) ...