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Great Barrier Reef hit by worst coral bleaching on record
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffered the worst coral bleaching on record. Both the northern and southern branches of the reef have been battered lately by tropical storms and the encroachment of invasive coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish, but heat stress driven by warming oceans is the primary cause, scientists told the BBC.
The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, ...
More information: Bianca M. Thobor et al, Coral high molecular weight carbohydrates support opportunistic microbes in bacterioplankton from an algae-dominated reef, mSystems (2024).
Research at a lab at Roger Williams University on genetically modifying Rhode Island's native coral could help save tropical ...
The algae have poisoned more than 1,737 square miles of the waters, littering beaches with carcasses and ravaging an area ...
Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.
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Massive 1,640 foot tall coral reef discovered hidden off the coast of AustraliaA towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew ...
It’s the gift that no one asked for: blue-green algae is back in Cape Coral. The Florida Department of Health sent out a warning on Friday about the toxic blooms.
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