by CORAL Magazine | Mar 24, 2017 | Marine, News & Notes
Back-to-Back Bleaching Years for the World’s Largest Coral Reef Ecosystem A dreaded and unprecedented new wave of mass bleaching is unfolding on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, according to Australia’s lead management agency for the world’s...
by CORAL Magazine | Jul 1, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
“This is occasion for hope and optimism about coral reefs and the marine life that thrive there…” Stony corals are already finding ways to survive in warming seas, according to new research by an international team of scientists from the University...
by CORAL Magazine | May 14, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
In a race with the accelerating warming and acidification of the seas, marine biologists are attempting to put stony corals on a fast track to becoming more tolerant of water conditions that might previously have triggered their bleaching or demise. The work is being...
by CORAL Magazine | Jun 5, 2013 | Marine, News & Notes
Most are smaller than a pinhead and are largely unseen by humans who don’t have a magnifying lens in hand, but foraminiferans or “forams” are found in countless numbers on the world’s reefs, often forming part of the matrix of sandy substrate...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 10, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Contrary to popular wisdom, coral reefs in remote areas have the potential to rebound from bleaching events and in time frames that marine biologists find astonishing. Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby...