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Warming Oceans Are Offering a New Spot for Corals to Colonize.
This article discusses how Warming Oceans Are Offering a New Spot for Corals to Colonize. In the South China Sea, corals are returning to a site they haven’t inhabited for 5,000 years.
The waters around Sanya, China, in the northern South China Sea, are murky at best. The city has a population […]
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Will We Survive Climate Change?
This article discusses whether we will survive climate change. Possibly. There is ‘no scientific support for inevitable doom,’ one expert notes.
It’s no mystery why. Reports of the threats from a warming planethave been coming fast and furiously. The latest: a startling analysis from […]
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Study: Taking the Oceans’ Temperature, Scientists Find Unexpected Heat
This article discusses how climate change is affecting the oceans. Taking the Oceans’ Temperature, Scientists Find Unexpected Heat.
Climate change is rapidly warming the world’s oceans, killing off aquatic organisms — like coral reefs and kelp forests — that anchor entire ecosystems. The warmer waters also cause sea […]
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How plants and animals are teaching scientists to fight climate change
This article discusses how plants and animals are teaching scientists to fight climate change. In the emerging field of biomimicry, scientists and inventors take inspiration from trees, whales and coral.
The immensity of a program to reforest large swaths of the Amazon is hard to conceive — it aims to […]
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Report: Teaching coral to toughen up could help reefs survive climate change
This article discusses Teaching coral to toughen up could help reefs survive climate change. Scientists explore ways to help coral thrive in the face of climate change.
As the world’s oceans continue to warm, coral reefs are struggling to survive. In recent years large swaths of some of the world’s […]
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Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from climate change
This article discusses coral reefs – Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from climate change. Underwater nurseries offer glimmer of hope for endangered ecosystems, encouraging growth of coral fragments on fiberglass structures anchored to the seabed.
As an ocean early warning system, coral reefs have been sounding the […]
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Diverse family of algae could help corals survive warming seas
This article discusses how there may be some hope for coral reefs.
Scientists have found that some algae that associate with corals are much more diverse and much older than previously thought.
The origin of certain algae occurred at around the same time corals began building reefs on a grand scale […]
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Nature’s perfect match is breaking down and the reef is in peril
This article discusses how algae and coral reefs depend upon each other, but global warming is hurting that relationship.
But oases of harmony do exist, where evolution has played matchmaker and engineered pockets of peaceful coexistence. Take, for instance, a relationship formed more than 210 million years ago around the […]
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Study: Climate change has doubled the frequency of ocean heatwaves
This article discusses the impact on the oceans from global warming. Extreme heat events wreak havoc on marine ecosystems and will only get worse in coming decades.
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Study: There Is No Escape for Corals from global warming
This article discusses how global warming is affecting coral reefs. Deep waters have long been seen as potential refuges for endangered corals, but a new study suggests that they offer no sanctuary.
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