Coral researchers are working night and day on the Great Barrier Reef to complete a radically new approach to mass coral re-seeding, rearing millions of hardy coral babies following the reef... Read more
New, lower-cost help may soon be on the way to help manage one of the biggest threats facing the Great Barrier Reef. That threat is pollution from land making its way downstream by way of th... Read more
The Great Barrier Reef is set to receive a restocking of new coral from a pumice raft, the size of more than 20,000 football fields, now on its way to Australia following an underwater volca... Read more
In a world first, an undersea robot has dispersed microscopic baby corals (coral larvae) to help scientists working to repopulate parts of the Great Barrier Reef during this year’s mass cora... Read more
The future of the world’s coral reefs is uncertain, as the impact of global heating continues to escalate. However, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change, the respons... Read more
Underwater robot can identify and kill crown-of-thorns starfish while monitoring overall reef health
An underwater drone that can keep watch on reef health and accurately identify and inject the devastating crown-of-thorns starfish is ready to be put to the test on the Great Barrier Reef, a... Read more
An autonomous starfish-killing robot is close to being ready for trials on the Great Barrier Reef, researchers say. Crown-of-thorns starfish have have been described as a significant... Read more
Scientists seek to ensure survival of coral reefs outside of protected areas by calling for a minimum target of 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare Fish are the key ingredients in a ne... Read more
Why take a chance when one of the world’s most vital ecosystems is already disappearing? As it stands, things don’t look good for the world’s coral. We’ve lost 40% of... Read more
Scientists are taking the public with them to study the world’s coral reefs, thanks to 360 degree panoramas from Google’s underwater street-view format. Results from this pioneering pr... Read more
The wave-powered sub Papa Mau not only set a record while crossing the Pacific Ocean autonomously, it also studied rogue waves and other marine phenomena invisible to eyes in the sky When th... Read more
After a year at sea, Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider has set the record for the longest distance traveled by an autonomous robot. In November of last year, Liquid Robotics dropped four of... Read more
There’s accounting and then there is ACCOUNTING . . . Many nations are part of an effort to account for the economic goods provided for free by nature–but not the U.S. Botswana... Read more
A microbiologist is harnessing beneficial bacteria to help coral reefs weather pollution, overfishing and climate change Kim Ritchie fell into coral research as an undergraduate, got... Read more
