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Corals in the Maldives are showing some resilience, adaptability and even recovery from climate-change effects, according to marine biologist Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, following a reef-monitoring diving expedition, the latest in a series undertaken over each of the past nine years. Biosphere Expeditions sets up the “citizen-science” dive trips to survey reefs in the central Maldives […]

Climate change and ocean warming threaten coral reefs globally with more frequent and deadly coral bleaching events. But a new study, using 20 years of Reef Check data, finds that corals now can withstand higher temperatures before bleaching than they could a decade ago. The study was published March 20, 2019 in the journal Nature Communications. […]

Corals that can survive Hong Kong’s ‘apocalyptic environment’ offer insight into how to better protect reefs elsewhere Successful conservation projects have the potential to transform the seas of southern China and beyond By Stuart Heaver, South China Morning Post In the chilly waters of Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park, in Sai Kung West Country Park, […]

Written by Terry Umphenour “Maximum depth will be eighteen meters and dive time will be fifty minutes. Gear up.” The dive briefing command sent 25 enthusiastic young divers from Concordia International Schools in Shanghai and Hanoi down to the dive platform on Manta Queen III’s dive deck. The students and their seven adult leaders had […]

We live on a planet filled with crystal blue oceans, white sand beaches, and shallow coral reefs teeming with life. However, this reality will steadily fade into a memory as we perpetuate our careless habits. Mother Nature’s beauty will become nothing but pixels on a screen while the kiss of death knocks on her front […]