Global Coral Reef Alliance
Biorock misattributed by The Economist “Ocean Reefs: Hybrid vigour” Sept 11 2021
The Economist, September 11 2021 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, Biorock Indonesia, and our...
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,...
2020 Global Coral Reef Bleaching Patterns
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...
Biorock Reefs Bounce Back After Coral Bleaching: Gili Trawangan Video And Photos By Delphine Robbe
GCRA is proud to present video and photographs of Biorock reefs taken by in October 2020 by Delphine Robbe of the Gili Eco Trust, showing Lombok reefs that had fully recovered around six months after bleaching. They illustrate the unique resilience of Biorock reefs to...
