Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists
By Lucie AUBOURG WASHINGTON (AFP) - The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and…
2 years ago
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Great Barrier Reef hit by seventh ‘mass bleaching event’ since 1998
By Laura CHUNG SYDNEY, March 8, 2024 (AFP) - A "mass bleaching event" is unfolding on Australia's famed Great Barrier…
2 years ago
Australia declares ‘mass bleaching’ at Great Barrier Reef
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef is suffering a "mass bleaching event" as coral comes under heat stress…
4 years ago
Desperate US bid to engineer corals for climate change
by Chandan Khanna with Glenn Chapman in San Francisco Agence France-Presse MIAMI, Florida (AFP) - A bit of coral shimmers…
5 years ago
Surviving bleached Barrier Reef coral ‘more resilient to heat’
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef that survived bleaching from rising sea temperatures were more resistant…
8 years ago
Biggest coral reseeding project launches on Great Barrier Reef
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Scientists have launched the largest-ever attempt to regenerate coral on the endangered Great Barrier Reef by…
8 years ago
‘Zero recovery’ for corals in back-to-back Australia bleaching
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Coral bleached for two consecutive years at Australia's Great Barrier Reef has "zero prospect" of recovery,…
9 years ago
Gene sleuths open line of attack on coral-killing starfish
by Richard Ingham PARIS, France (AFP) -- The beast goes by the Latin monicker of Acanthaster planci, but it is…
9 years ago
Scientists record biggest ever coral die-off on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
TOWNSVILLE, Australia (Reuters) -- Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch…
10 years ago
Coral fish stress out if separated from ‘shoal-mates’
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Coral fish become stressed and lose weight if they are separated from each other, hampering their…
10 years ago
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