Global Coral Reef Alliance
UNFCC COP 27 SACRIFICES CORAL REEFS AND SIDS YET AGAIN
UNFCC COP 27 has sacrificed coral reef ecosystems and Small Island Developing States again by failing to protect them from climate change. Before UNFCC was signed in Rio de Janeiro 30 years ago (1992) I briefed delegates of the Association of Small Island Developing...
Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to solve the sea level rise problem forcing Guna people to abandon their islands (in Spanish only)
Uggupseni project 2022 BIOROCK UGGUPSENI Una tecnología específicamente inventada y Desarrollada para resolver problemas ambientales de Guna Yala Una presentacion a el Congreso General Guna, Octubre 14 2022 Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to...
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation, a chapter by Tom Goreau in the book: Corals - Habitat Formers From the Shallow to the Deep (Giovanni Chimienti, Editor), explains how the Biorock process greatly increases resilience of corals and marine...
Pristine Barbuda imperilled by unsustainable development
Will Luxury Resorts Threaten Caribbean Coasts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bd8wM0ECwc Barbuda is the last essentially pristine island left in the Caribbean other than uninhabited rocks. Barbuda is too dry for agriculture, so the people are master fishers...
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change. Biorock® Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating...
Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture
Blue Regeneration’s Virtual Side Event at the United Nations Oceans Conference, Lisbon, 15:00 June 30 2022 Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture Jun 30, 2022 03:00 PM Lisbon Click here to join the...
Strengthening Puerto Rico’s living coasts of coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves against climate change
Strengthening Puerto Rico's living coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove coasts against climate change. A webinar by Dr. Tom Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance about long term changes in Puerto Rico coral reefs and the options for reviving them, organized by...
Coral Reef Electrotherapy: Field Observations
This paper presents the first comprehensive review of all visible biological effects of the Biorock electrolysis method of marine ecosystem regeneration that have been seen since the invention of the method in 1976. Extraordinary benefits are seen for the health of...
Hawis Madduppa: In Memoriam
May 15, 2022 In Memoriam Hawis Madduppa March 26 1979 - May 10th 2022 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Biorock Indonesia and the Global Coral Reef Alliance announce with the greatest sadness the loss of Dr. Hawis Madduppa, leader of...
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable April 26, 2022, United Nations, New York City Biorock living shorelines, regenerative natural biological ecosystems to filter and clean harbor and...
Support Biorock Indonesia Earth Day Coral Reef Regeneration
Indonesia has the world's largest and most biodiverse coral reefs, but most have been severely damaged. Biorock Indonesia is regenerating coral reefs and fisheries with hundreds of Biorock projects across Indonesia, training communities to regenerate their marine...
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing Carbon cost and price with lifetime to reverse climate change
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing carbon cost and price with lifetimes explains why global carbon trading schemes are severely distorted...
MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications
Maldives Biorock Figures compressed January 31, 2022 GCRA White Paper MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance SUMMARY The Maldivian way of life for more than four thousand years is under...
Save Jamaica’s World Heritage Climate Change Site
SAVE JAMAICA’S WORLD HERITAGE CLIMATE CHANGE SITE Letter to the Jamaica Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Dear Sirs, The Bengal cliff of the Dry Harbour Mountains between Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno...
GCRA 2021 Winter Solstice Report
December 21 2021 GCRA WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: CORALS, COVID, & CLIMATE CHANGE Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Covid supply chain delays and uncertainty slowed down, delayed, or prevented new Biorock Marine Ecosystem Regeneration...
Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam
ROBERT KENT TRENCH: IN MEMORIAM August 3 1940 – April 28 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Bob Trench, as a Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Global Coral Reef Alliance announces with the greatest sadness...
Biorock Indonesia announces 2021 Scholar Reef program for Youth coral regeneration training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnnfQj4YMTk Indonesia has the highest area and biodiversity of coral reefs in the world, and also has the most Biorock reef regeneration programs, thanks to Biorock Indonesia programs to train Indonesia's youth to grow back their coral...
Two new book chapters on Reversing Global Climate Change by Regenerating Ecosystem Services released before UN Climate Change Convention
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance T. J. F. Goreau, 2020, Regenerating ecosystem services to meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in Natural Resources and Their Ecosystem Services, 2020, p. 2-15 in Volume 1, Natural Resources...
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals October 31, 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau Thomas P. Sarkisian Sharren Robinson Global Coral Reef Alliance The record long and severe 2020 Hurricane Season spawned two category 5 hurricanes just south of Jamaica, Hurricanes...
Biorock Arks save corals from bleaching when fragmented corals die of heat-stroke
Biorock Arks save corals from bleaching when fragmented corals die of heat-stroke October 30, 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance As Global Warming accelerates, corals are increasingly bleaching and dying from heatstroke. Biorock is the...
Biorock misattributed by The Economist “Ocean Reefs: Hybrid vigour” Sept 11 2021
The Economist, September 11 2021 TO: THE EDITOR OF THE ECONOMIST: The unidentified photograph in “Ocean reefs: Hybrid vigour” (Sept 11 2021) shows one of more than a thousand Biorock reefs in Indonesia and more than 50 islands built by the Global Coral Reef Alliance,...
SUPPORT ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S VISION TO REGENERATE PLANET OCEAN WITH BIOROCK!
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the famous science fiction writer and proponent of satellites, space communication, and robotics, was a pioneering diver and marine explorer. Arthur C. Clarke wrote the first English book on Scuba diving, and strongly advocated Biorock...
IPCC IGNORES CORAL REEF COUNTRIES AGAIN
The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report is out, and while a clear improvement in recognizing the urgency of future climate change, IPCC unfortunately continues to ignore the fact that coral reefs passed the bleaching tipping point in the...
Prime Movers Lab Webinar – Ocean Technology
Join me and Prime Movers Lab for a discussion about the future of ocean technology and sustainability, including the future of humans living on oceans on June 23 at 3PM EDT. Register at the link below. https://bit.ly/3vQVwhX
Biorock reefs unaffected by severe bleaching events
Biorock reefs survive repeated severe bleaching undamaged. This one minute video made early in 2021 by Delphine Robbe of the Gili Eco Trust shows a Biorock reef around 17 years old which survived two severe bleaching events undamaged. The staghorn coral growing all...
UNESCO: Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ from global warming and pollution
UNESCO: Great Barrier Reef 'in danger' from global warming and pollution No surprise, the Australians were warned long ago what global warming and pollution were doing to the Great Barrier Reef, and chose to pretend it wasn’t happening. It has been only 71 years since...
Coral Ghosts premieres on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Documentary Channel this Sunday May 16th!
Coral Ghosts World Broadcast Premiere Sunday, May 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on documentary Channel Digital Media Site: http://www.coralmovie.com/ Watch Coral Ghosts trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0UY_wrGKo4 Download Photos & Press Kit: https://bit.ly/2QaI7CU...
Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam
April 28, 2021 The Global Coral Reef Alliance announces with the greatest sadness the death this morning of Professor Robert Kent Trench, the world’s top expert on coral reef symbiosis, and a distinguished member of GCRA’s Board of Directors. We will soon post on the...
Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point
This article by GCRA's Goreau and Hayes, published in Ambio’s 50th Anniversary Collection on the theme of Climate change impacts presents the first retrospective on global coral bleaching since the publication of their pioneering 1994 Ambio paper on predicting coral...
Global Coral Reef Alliance 2020 Winter Solstice Report
Flattening the CO2 Curve to Save Corals Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Large scale death of corals from high temperature, pollution, and disease accelerated in 2020 as a result of fossil fuel-subsidizing policies of the US,...
