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Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

A clown fish swims among sea anemones near Wuzhizhou in May. Attracted by the vibrant coral reefs, You Ling, owner of the 57 Diving School in Sanya, has explored many popular diving destinations worldwide, including French Polynesia and Fiji. "In Sanya, many underwater areas are desolate, plagued by extensive sand deposits with silt and debris, lacking the allure of overseas …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

China Daily

Wang Fengguo and a fellow diver transplant corals at the ranch in May last year. With the help of the local government, Wang got in touch with the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has a team long dedicated to coral research. Since then, in addition to maintaining their ongoing efforts in collecting …

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Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

China Daily

Editor's note: China Daily is publishing a series illustrating the country's efforts to achieve its carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. CHINA DAILY Video: Future Guardians — Coral Gardener Having immersed himself in marine conservation for over a decade, Wang Fengguo possesses a profound understanding of the havoc that extreme typhoons can wreak upon coral reefs, which stand as some …

Wang Coral

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

China Daily

Editor's note: China Daily is publishing a series illustrating the country's efforts to achieve its carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. CHINA DAILY Video: Future Guardians — Coral Gardener Having immersed himself in marine conservation for over a decade, Wang Fengguo possesses a profound understanding of the havoc that extreme typhoons can wreak upon coral reefs, which stand as some …

Wang Coral

1 month ago

What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common

NPR

What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common toggle caption Ruiqi Li/Dakota McCoy Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. "These strange little clams are a little bit tougher than corals," says McCoy, "even though they host the same type of algae inside their cells that corals do." Sponsor Message An instrument called a spectrophotometer, "can …

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1 month ago

Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record

Raw Story

Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate. In one northern section of the reef, about a third of hard coral had died, the "largest annual decline" in 39 years of government monitoring, the agency said. Often dubbed …

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1 month ago

World’s largest coral the ‘size of two basketball courts’ discovered by accident

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size …

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1 month, 1 week ago

A colorful, camouflaged seahorse helped a scientist on a biological treasure hunt

NPR

A colorful, camouflaged seahorse helped a scientist on a biological treasure hunt Chloe Fourreau, a Ph.D. student in Japan, went hunting for an elusive and overlooked marine worm, which lives in corals off the country's Pacific coast. Back in the 1950s, a researcher in Japan discovered a tiny translucent orange worm, living in corals off the country's Pacific coast. For …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Long-lost marine worm species photobombs seahorses, scientists say

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. When researchers analyzed images of tiny seahorses taken by scuba divers, they found evidence of photobombing worms in the hundreds, living alongside the seahorses in coral colonies from Japan to Australia. Fourreau/Proceedings of the Royal Society B ‘She noticed some worms’ Study coauthor Ai Takahata, an undergraduate student at MISE and Forreau’s …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Sea creature so big it is ‘visible from space’ discovered in South Pacific

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have discovered one of the largest known sea creatures – a coral the size …

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1 month, 1 week ago

World’s largest coral discovered in Pacific near Solomon Islands

Al Jazeera

Scientists say coral ‘pulsing with life and colour’ is believed to be 300 years old and three times larger than previous record holder. Scientists have found the largest coral in the world near the remote Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, a gigantic organism that can be seen from space. The “mega coral” is 32 metres long and 34 metres …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Nearly half of tropical coral species face extinction: report

Raw Story

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction -- and climate change is the chief culprit, a new report said on Wednesday. Rising ocean temperatures have spurred mass bleaching events at coral reefs across the world, threatening crucial ecosystems for marine life as well as the livelihoods of people who rely on them. "Healthy ecosystems like …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Exploring the ingenious field of biomimicry : The Pulse : NPR

NPR

Exploring the ingenious field of biomimicry : The Pulse How does nature make durable materials like corals and seashells without a heat or a kiln? How do peacock feathers get their beautiful colors? Scientists are trying to understand these processes and to replicate them for sustainable human products and design. The Pulse Biomimicry: What Nature Can Teach us about Engineering …

Biomimicry

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Neeti Gokhalay Kheny on being part of the 1000 Vases show in Paris

The Hindu

Neeti Gokhalay Kheny is a Bengaluru-based artist who fell in love with pottery and started creating ceramic works of art. “The first was a black vase, crafted in black clay with grog, glaze inside, while the second piece was a white and blue vase in ceramic and stoneware.” Ayan Gouled Orsini and Francesco Pirrello started an Instagram page called 1000 …

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Saudi Couple Takes Underwater Wedding in Red Sea, Spreading Environmental Awareness

News 18

A Saudi couple took their relationship to a whole new level and got married underwater in the Red Sea. The ceremony was held by the local group of divers, where the captain of the expedition was Faisal Flemban. The couple expressed gratitude for the seamless execution of the event, stating, 'Alhamdulillah, there were no challenges. The celebration went smoothly, and …

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4 months ago

Vigyan Yuva awardee Roxy Mathew Koll: Mapping climate change

Hindustan Times

Roxy Mathew Koll, winner of this year’s Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Earth Scientist, is a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and a leading expert in this field. Roxy Mathew Koll, winner of this year’s Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Earth Scientist What I do My work is focused on climate change …

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4 months ago

Illegal wildlife trade: When creatures of the sea take flight

The Hindu

In a cruel irony, seahorses, whales, and sharks — creatures from the sea — are taking flight, literally and for the wrong reasons. Illegal wildlife trade is taking to the skies, and enforcement agencies say that smuggling of marine life has been on the rise for four years. Massive haul The enforcement agencies, from 2023 to July this year, conducted …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Great Barrier Reef endangered by hottest oceans in 400 years, study finds

Al Jazeera

Researchers say the world is losing ‘one of our icons’ as human activity fuels temperature increases. Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef have hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, researchers say, warning that the largest living ecosystem on Earth likely will not survive if planetary warming is not stopped. Ocean temperatures around the reef …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Death knell for corals

The Hindu

Krithiga S.S., a young marine researcher, was on a scientific voyage on a fishing vessel in the Lakshadweep waters on a sunny April afternoon to assess the health of the corals of the island group located between 200 and 440 km off her hometown Kochi in Kerala. It was eight years ago, in 2016, that an en masse bleaching and …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

New drone footage shows 97% of coral is dead in northern Great Barrier Reef

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At least 97 per cent of corals on a reef in the northern section of …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: The Oceans Court ruled that the seas are a hot mess. Why haven’t you heard about it?

LA Times

Bleached coral in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, in September 2023. One billion dollars represents about 1% of the profits raked in by ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP combined last year under Biden’s moderate climate policies. The average global ocean surface temperature hit a record of nearly …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Over 60% of world's coral reefs likely bleached in just the past year

India Today

In a dire warning about the escalating threat to the world's coral reefs, the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has revealed that nearly two-thirds of these vital marine ecosystems have experienced heat stress severe enough to trigger bleaching over the past year. "I am very worried about the state of the world's coral reefs," said Derek Manzello, coordinator of …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1

Associated Press

The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found. Now scientists can go back to the modern western calendar’s year 1, when the Bible says Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, but have found no hotter northern summer than last year’s. No year came even close to last …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ocean currents are shifting. Study finds corals could become a thing of the past

India Today

The world is warming up and the oceans are no different. A new study published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change indicates that the extensive bleaching and deaths of coral point to a more staggering change - the pattern of ocean currents is shifting. Warm ocean currents carry heat from the tropics towards the poles, helping to moderate climate …

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Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

Diver pieces back together smashed marine ecosystem

What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common

Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record

World’s largest coral the ‘size of two basketball courts’ discovered by accident

A colorful, camouflaged seahorse helped a scientist on a biological treasure hunt

Long-lost marine worm species photobombs seahorses, scientists say

Sea creature so big it is ‘visible from space’ discovered in South Pacific

World’s largest coral discovered in Pacific near Solomon Islands

Nearly half of tropical coral species face extinction: report

Exploring the ingenious field of biomimicry : The Pulse : NPR

Neeti Gokhalay Kheny on being part of the 1000 Vases show in Paris

Saudi Couple Takes Underwater Wedding in Red Sea, Spreading Environmental Awareness

Vigyan Yuva awardee Roxy Mathew Koll: Mapping climate change

Illegal wildlife trade: When creatures of the sea take flight

Great Barrier Reef endangered by hottest oceans in 400 years, study finds

Death knell for corals

New drone footage shows 97% of coral is dead in northern Great Barrier Reef

Opinion: The Oceans Court ruled that the seas are a hot mess. Why haven’t you heard about it?

Over 60% of world's coral reefs likely bleached in just the past year

Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1

Ocean currents are shifting. Study finds corals could become a thing of the past