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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Why coral reefs are key to a healthy planet

" These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete calcium carbonate to form their hard skeletons. They occur in more than 100 countries and territories, and whilst ...
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Inside the historic effort 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 ...
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Coral reefs can't keep up with climate change. So scientists are speeding up evolution

Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing a worldwide mass bleaching event on coral reefs. It's the second one this decade, where the delicate skeletons of corals turn a ghostly white. With mass ...
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CHANGING PLANET: Coral Special

Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In the third year of the seven-year CHANGING PLANET project, renowned conservationist Dr. M. Sanjayan travels to the ...
Nature

Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...
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Coral reef collapse drives world across first climate tipping point

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...
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For More Than 250 Million Years, Coral Reefs Have Had a Major Influence on Earth’s Changing Climate

Research indicates that coral reefs have been tuning Earth's cycles for hundreds of millions of years. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, public domain. Coral reefs are Earth’s most ...
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Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...
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Coral Collection

Coral Reefs make up less than 1% of the ocean, but support a quarter of all marine life. Coral Reefs make up less than 1% of the ocean but support a quarter of all marine life and provide food, income ...
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Coral bleaching is affecting nearly all reefs, report says

Coral reefs are a crucial part of the marine ecosystem, providing habitats for all sorts of marine life and protecting coastlines from storm damage. But scientists say rising ocean temperatures are ...