by Tom Goreau | Jun 22, 2021
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...
by Tom Goreau | Jun 22, 2021
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...
by Tom Goreau | Apr 28, 2021
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...
by Tom Goreau | Mar 9, 2021
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...
by Tom Goreau | Nov 21, 2020
2020 will be another record year for coral reef bleaching, but there will be almost no field documentation of its global extent and impacts because the Covid epidemic has put a near complete halt to diving. As usual, global news media reported bleaching only in the...
