2021年11月12日 · Coral reefs are under relentless stress from myriad global and local issues, including climate change, declining water quality, overfishing, pollution and unsustainable coastal development.

2021年9月17日 · Scientists have long known that reefs are in peril, but a new study published today in the journal One Earth quantifies coral losses around the world. The in-depth analysis reveals half of...

Since 2000, global temperatures have been breaking records almost annually and reefs have been dying en masse, undergoing a process known as “coral bleaching,” when the organisms that live on coral, providing nutrients and vibrant color, get cooked alive, turning coral a bone-white.

2024年10月17日 · After bleaching events, the dead coral skeletons left behind allow seaweed to outgrow new young coral, preventing reefs from recovering. The results are published in the journal Global Change Biology.

2022年5月11日 · Despite their crucial environmental role, since 1950 the world's oceans have lost 50% of their living coral reef coverage. And if swift action isn't taken to protect this precious natural...

2024年9月26日 · Researchers working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia found that the network of dead coral skeletons left in place by bleaching events caused critical processes to break down, ultimately preventing reefs from recovering.

2016年7月20日 · As coral continue to be assailed from all sides, the question becomes: what happens to a coral reef when the coral disappear? To get an idea, says University of Queensland ecologist Peter Mumby, look to Jamaica.

2020年10月10日 · Human interaction is a major reason for dead corals (boats and nets scrapping the bottom of the seafloor, pollution, digging of canals, blast fishing, mining and human alteration of coastlines. Healthy coral has a lovely olive green, yellow, blue, pink …

2024年4月17日 · The reality is that we are losing literally billions of corals on the world’s coral reefs. This underwater photograph, taken on April 5, 2024, shows bleached and dead coral around Lizard...

With rising ocean temperatures, damage from tourism, and overfishing, it’s estimated that 25%-50% of the world’s corals reefs are already dead, up to 75% have suffered bleaching events, with the remainder at risk. Finding a live healthy coral reef is actually becoming rare.