Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.

These makeshift tools are their best weapons in the war against crown-of-thorns starfish, a coral-munching species eating through tropical reefs already weakened by climate change. The Cook ...

South Pacific nation is dealing with a years-long outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish, which eat coral and damage reefs already weakened by climate change.

A member from the environmental group Korero O Te Orau pulling crown-of-thorns starfish onto a boat after collecting them from a reef off Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. PHOTO: AFP ‘Plague ...

‘Entire reef’ under threat by pest on Cook Islands A single creature is threatening the future of the Cook Island coral reefs. Meet the divers determined to get rid of it.

The Cook Islands is waging a war against crown-of-thorns starfish, a coral-munching species eating through tropical reefs already weakened by climate change. (Photo: AFP) ...

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When the team extracted certain proteins – deemed crown-of-thorns starfish-secreted proteins (COTSP) – from these spines and introduced them to the water of animals held in tanks, the sea ...

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