Global Coral Reef Alliance
Dr Tom Goreau to talk on BioGeoTherapy: Reversing Climate Change by Regenerating Land and Ocean Ecosystems at Regenerating Ecological Systems Conference, April 28 2019
A review of John Todd, 2019, HEALING EARTH: An ecologist’s journey of innovation and environmental stewardship
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Ecosystem restoration pioneer John Todd begins his new book with “I am writing this book based on the belief that humanity will soon become involved in a deep and abiding worldwide partnership with nature....
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Global ocean warming accelerates threats to coral reefs, need to remove CO2
In How fast are the oceans warming?, L. Cheng, J. Abraham, Z. Hausfather, & K. Trenberth, 2019, Science, 363:128-129, reassess global ocean temperature data and finds that the heat content of the ocean is increasing considerably faster than had been realized, and...
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Biorock™ Coral Ark grows elkhorn in Jamaica
Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, was the most common coral in shallow Jamaican and Caribbean reefs in the early 1950s until the corals were killed from sewage pollution, global warming, soil erosion, and new diseases. Now it is locally extinct almost everywhere around...
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Recharging Indonesian marine biodiversity
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhDPresident, Global Coral Reef AllianceScientific Advisor, Biorock Indonesia Indonesia has the largest and most biodiverse coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrasses of any country in the world. Sadly, all are under severe pressure. Around 95% of the...
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Biorock Barong And Rangda reef installed in honor of Agung Prana
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhDPresident, Global Coral Reef AllianceScientific Advisor, Biorock Indonesia The late Agung Prana, a leader of Balinese ecotourism, was commemorated by installation of a Biorock reef shaped like the quintessential Balinese mythological figures,...
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Biorock beach regeneration expands
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhDPresident, Global Coral Reef AllianceScientific Advisor, Biorock Indonesia The severely eroded beach at Pulau Gangga Resort, North Sulawesi, Indonesia that was naturally regenerated at record rates with Biorock Anti Wave (BAW) reefs (Goreau...
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Happy Winter Solstice! 2018 GCRA activities report
by Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance BARONG & RANGDA, Biorock sculpture of the quintessential Balinese myth of the struggle between good and evil, installed December 14 2018 in honor of late Balinese ecotourism pioneer Agung Prana....
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Mangrove restoration in Borneo for carbon sequestration, sustainable biofuels, and orangutan sanctuary
Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (BECCS) and many fake “sustainable biofuel” projects continue to misinform about their net impacts using false carbon accounting.Some examples are given in this New York Times article, which unfortunately fails to...
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Updates on Biorock Ambon project
Today the Biorock Indonesia team, led by Komang Astika and Sandhi Raditya, placed the three new Biorock reefs installed yesterday under power in the Inner Ambon Bay. All are now working, along with the 5 Biorock reefs previously installed, a church, a mosque and the...
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Ninety years of change on the Great Barrier Reef
By Tom Goreau Ninety years ago the Cambridge University Great Barrier Reef Expedition at Low Isle laid the foundations of modern coral research. The Global Coral Reef Alliance team has just spent the week with a Canadian documentary film crew...
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Biorock brings corals back in Ambon
The corals of Ambon, in the Moluccas of Eastern Indonesia, were made famous by some of the greatest Natural Historians who ever lived. In the 1600s Georg Eberhard Rumpf, better known as Rumphius, described hundreds of new species of Ambonese plants and marine...
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