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Borneo Soft Coral Reveals Antioxidant Chemistry in Deep Metabolite Scan
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (659+ words) On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways in the current, its eight-tentacled polyps filtering plankton from the water. To divers, the organism known as Litophyton is an…...
See How Much Corals Have Declined in Just 40 Years
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (740+ words) As the oceans warm, coral reefs face an uncertain future. Scientists are piecing together the current state of their global decline. The world’s coral reefs are in dire shape, according to a new report. Hard corals, as opposed to soft…...
Snails caught eating fire coral in Indo-Pacific reefs for first time
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (849+ words) Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught them doing something no one had formally documented in the field before: feeding on fire coral....
Protect the Coral Triangle from the Fossil Fuel Industry
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (280+ words) Your browser currently has Javascript turned off. While some things, like signing petitions, will work without Javascript you may encounter errors. If you do, enabling JavaScript should get around the problems. The fossil fuel industry has found its next target:…...
Coral protection needs simpler solutions and fewer buzz words
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (593+ words) Following the release of new, eye-watering data from the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network that global hard coral cover has declined by 9.5% since historical levels, Sophie Benbow, director of marine at Flora and Fauna assesses the simpler solutions to protection…...
???Slumping??? S Korean corals worry divers
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (750+ words) Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant color and thriving life of South Korea’s soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six years ago, looking to harvest seafood for sale. “Watching the coral garden collapse and…...
Soft coral collapse recorded off Jeju, situation may worsen
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (362+ words) Soft coral collapse is again being recorded near South Korea’s Jeju Island: about half of one colony near the uninhabited islet of Beomseom has been in poor condition in recent months. This was reported by Asharq Al-Awsat, citing the Paran…...
Application of remote sensing technology in monitoring and conserving offshore coral reefs.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1535+ words) In the context of marine ecosystems being increasingly impacted by climate change, rising sea temperatures, environmental fluctuations, and resource exploitation, regular monitoring of coral reef status is particularly important for biodiversity conservation. However, for offshore areas, especially large-scale regions like…...
Experts fed 18 years of satellite images of 3 Red Sea reef sites through a machine learning model, and two of the three had lost more than a tenth of their coral before any dredger reached that coast
1+ week, 4+ day ago (777+ words) Along one stretch of Saudi Arabia’s northern Red Sea coast, a cutter suction dredger works a channel. Behind it the water carries a pale plume that spreads with the current. Somewhere under that water sits reef, in the shallowest and…...
WHOI Launches New Center Focused On Coral Reef Preservation | Falmouth Briefs
1+ week, 4+ day ago (208+ words) Amy Apprill, associate scientist in Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at WHOI, has been named the inaugural director of the new Schiller Center for Reef Solutions. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has launched a new center dedicated to developing scientific and…...