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Coral reefs have helped control Earth’s climate for 250 million years

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...
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The 9,000-Baby Transfer: A Massive Move to Save the Florida Reef

Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases ...
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The Great Barrier Reef is not actually dead

Outside Magazine published a somewhat tongue-in-cheek obituary for the Great Barrier Reef earlier this week, citing its lifespan from 25 million BC-2016. The article detailed the life of the reef, its ...
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GoPro videos turn into 3D coral reef maps in minutes

A new AI-based system allows coral reefs to be 3D-mapped faster and easier than ever before. It could prove integral to saving threatened reefs, by letting scientists study them both onsite and at ...

An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Cleaner air is (inadvertently) harming the Great Barrier Reef

Air pollution is now recognized as one of the greatest threats to human health, contributing to an estimated 4.2 million ...
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This Florida reef is an underwater cemetery. Here’s how you can get a spot

Scuba diver looking at the "Christ of the Abyss" bronze sculpture at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park - Key Largo, Florida FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Not only is the Neptune Memorial Reef the world’s ...