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Light pollution disrupts marine organisms’ hormonal cycles, reproduction: Study

Artificial light can easily wash out the glow of moonlight and starlight, which are important cues for marine organisms

Business-as-usual approach to curbing CO2 emission could kill vital corals by 2100

Greater carbon concentrations in oceans lead to algae producing more potent chemicals that kill corals more rapidly

Climate change: 14% coral reefs lost since 2010, says study

Corals reefs occupy less than 1% of the ocean floor but over one billion people benefit from them   

2016, the year that was: environment and energy

In a year of coral bleaching, power blackouts and Donald Trump, 2016 made the previous year's climate of environmental optimism rather difficult …

Housing plan, at sea

An artificial reef could be the ideal habitat for threatened sea creatures

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Does a new era of bleaching beckon for Indian Ocean coral reefs?

The British overseas territory faces an environmental crisis

The world’s coral reefs have suffered terribly in 30 years, but are resilient: Study

Status of Coral Reefs of the World:2020, prepared by the Australian government, said reducing local pressures on coral reefs to maintain their …

DTE Impact: Goa to regulate boat tours affecting corals, dolphins

Unregulated tourism activities have led to degradation of Goa's coral reef and harmed the humpback dolphin

Bleached to death

The current mass bleaching of corals across the world appears to be the most severe ever. It threatens the very existence of coral reefs. …

Corals, maths and satellites

A new mathematical formula will scan satellite images to study changes in coral reefs

Oceans turn acidic

Because of more carbon dioxide emissions, warns new study

Short circuit

On the face of it, the ambitious Sethusamudram project to bridge the east coast with the west coast of the country seems a great idea. The …

NOAA, ICRI confirm fourth global mass coral bleaching event in 2023-2024

This is the second such event in the last 10 years and comes at a time when global oceans have also recorded unprecedented heat

Coral bleaching of 2016 caused severe mortality in Gulf of Mannar: study

The corals in the Gulf of Mannar suffered severe losses during the global coral bleaching event that occurred between March and October 2016, …

Sea level changes that occurred 6,000 years ago may happen again; Southeast Asia at risk

Natural causes can further aggravate the effects of rise in sea level combined with human-assisted climate change

UNEP launches new worldwide digital platform to encourage sustainable marine tourism

Green Fins Hub will help diving and snorkelling operators worldwide to make simple, cost-efficient changes to their daily practices by utilising …

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Out of Africa

Guess what is bringing death and disease to the coral reefs of the world? Dust from African deserts

South China Sea reefs face extinction due to overharvesting of Giant clams

With the Chinese government turning blind eye to illegal harvesting of clams, the South China Sea coral reefs are decimating at a rapid pace

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To prevent overkill

Medicinal values of marine life make it vulnerable to overexploitation. But it is now possible to artificially produce such qualities

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