Maldives coral reefs damaged by dredging

Maldives coral reefs damaged by dredging

Dredging to create artificial islands just centimeters above sea level is damaging the Maldivian coral reefs that built and protected the islands. Concerned Maldivians point out how the country's future is being sacrificed to short term profit in Open letter to the...

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UNFCC COP 27 SACRIFICES CORAL REEFS AND SIDS YET AGAIN

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...

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Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation

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...

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Pristine Barbuda imperilled by unsustainable development

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...

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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: 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...

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Coral Reef Electrotherapy: Field Observations

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...

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Hawis Madduppa: In Memoriam

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...

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MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications

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...

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Save Jamaica’s World Heritage Climate Change Site

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...

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GCRA 2021 Winter Solstice Report

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...

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Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam

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...

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Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals

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...

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