Posts Tagged ‘bleaching event’

VIDEO: Coral Bleaching, Recovery, Succession & Obliteration. Fiji: 2000-2016

Dramatic, newly-compiled footage documents the bleaching, recovery, expansion, and decline of a fringing reef at the island of Vunavadra in Fiji over a 16-year timeframe. Does the increasing frequency of weather-related catastrophe warrant intensive reef restoration efforts in locations like this?

04 Jun 12:30 PM 1 Read More...

Great Barrier Grief

The bleaching is part of a circumtropical event affecting the world’s coral reefs now extending into its second year. Experts from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority alongside researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science have started flying over the Reef between Townsville and Cairns, looking for patches of stark white coral skeletons and estimating the extent of bleaching.

24 Mar 2:09 PM 0 Read More...

CORAL Magazine New Issue “REEF SPAWN” Inside Look

A preview of articles and images in the new issue of CORAL, The Reef & Marine Aquarium Magazine, January/February 2017.

29 Dec 2:08 PM 0 Read More...

CORAL Magazine New Issue “Breeding Milestones” Inside Look

A preview of articles and images in the new issue of CORAL, The Reef & Marine Aquarium Magazine, November/December 2016.

31 Oct 1:03 PM 0 Read More...

“Not Dead Yet”: A Conservation Scientist’s Take on the World’s Reefs

Dr. Les Kaufman, a well-known coral reef conservation expert, weighs in on the Great Barrier Reef’s recent “obituary”.

21 Oct 5:26 PM 0 Read More...