Topic: coral reefs

14-year-old Nannalin "Fleur" Pornprasertsom surveying bleached corals during her coral conservation and citizen science course at Black Turtle Dive around Koh Tao island in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani on on June 14, 2024. (LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Coral reefs being pushed to extinction

Matthew Rozsa
Coral Reef (Getty Images/by wildestanimal)

Combating coral bleaching with curcumin

Matthew Rozsa
Sun beams shinning underwater on the tropical coral reef (Getty Images/Tunatura)

Historic UN treaty would protect oceans

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

There is hope for coral reefs

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
In this March 3, 2015 photo, visitors aboard a boat watch as a gray whale surfaces in the Pacific Ocean waters of the San Ignacio lagoon, near the town of Guerrero Negro, in Mexico's Baja California peninsula. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (AP)

The oceans are in hot, hot water

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/KGrif#13d516a9'>KGrif</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

The ocean floor is dying

Sandra Brooke
Oahu’s Hanauma Bay on Wednesday, May 6, 2016 near Honolulu. Much of the inner reef at Hanauma Bay is dead after decades of tourist interaction, but the outter reef is still relatively healthy. More than 2,000 international reef scientists, policymakers and stakeholders are gathering in Hawaii starting Monday, June 20, 2016, to discuss the latest coral science and what can be done to stop widespread death of the world's reefs.(AP Photo/Caleb Jones) (AP)

Coral reefs disappearing

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(Getty/xijian)

I'm a scientist, and coming back

Elizabeth Madin - The Conversation
In a Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 photo, rare species of Hawaiian coral being used to create a seed bank grows in a tank at the Anuenue Fisheries Research Center’s coral nursery in Honolulu. Most of Hawaii’s species of coral is unlike other coral around the world in that it grows very slowly, making restoration projects for endangered reefs in the state difficult. But state officials have come with a plan to grow large chunks of coral in a fraction of the time it would normally take. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones) (AP)

Adel Heenan, Andrew Hoey, Gareth J. Williams, Ivor D. Williams - The Conversation
(Taro Takahashi)

Lindsay Abrams