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Huge sea-urchin populations are overwhelming Hawaii's coral reefs
As coral reefs struggle to adapt to warming waters, high levels of pollution and sea-level rise, ballooning sea-urchin ...
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This coral reef should be dead—so why is it thriving?
A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and ... “But we were new divers, and we thought it must be very normal because no one makes a big deal out of it.” Still, Borcsok had ...
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by fifth mass bleaching event in eight years
El Niño conditions were also a factor in 2023, compounding background ... there was no other evidence of widespread bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef’s 500-year coral record-keeping ...
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It’s one of the world’s largest connected coral reef systems, but few people have even heard of it
Set off the coast of Sablayan, Apo Reef Natural Park spans 13 square miles (around 33 square kilometers), making it the world’s second-largest contiguous coral ... in 2007, a no-take zone ...
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Great Barrier Reef on one-way path to decay thanks to climate change with no end in sight, report says
The long-term future of the Great Barrier Reef is precarious with ... report released on Friday said. Coral reefs have however improved in health as no mass die-offs were reported in the five ...