Global Coral Reef Alliance
Entire Caribbean Sea about to bleach
Coral reefs all across the Caribbean Sea are now at mass bleaching temperatures. Coral mortality will depend on how hot it gets in the coming weeks and for how long. Below is the latest daily Coral Bleaching HotSpot map for the Caribbean (Goreau & Hayes, 1994)....
Are Orcas eating Mediterranean migrants?
“Rough Play or Bad Intentions? Orca Encounters Off Iberia Baffle Experts”, New York Times, September 20, 2020 reports that a well known school of Orcas (killer whales) whose resident range is around both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar, have suddenly started...
Legendary underwater photographer Jerry Greenberg has just died peacefully at 92
Larger than life, he dived to the end, with sheer pleasure: https://keysweekly.com/42/at-93-diver-and-photographer-jerry-greenberg-goes-under-one-more-time/ Jerry personally documented the Florida Keys reefs for 70 years. His incredible photos tell the entire story of...
Phil Dustan’s Greatest Coral Reef Videos: Introduced by Tom Goreau
Some of the best short documentaries about coral reef change ever made. By a 50 year veteran, Dr. Phil Dustan Phil Dustan joined our coral reef research team at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in 1970, 50 years ago! He came to Jamaica do a PhD in coral reef...
Coral Bleaching HotSpot shows Arctic Ice Death Spiral
30 years ago we developed the HotSpot method of predicting coral bleaching caused by extreme heat waves, using satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies mapped with regard to the average temperature in the hottest month historically (Goreau &...
Forests, fossil fuels, and coral reefs
The most massive trees and carbon biomass in the world are those in the rainforests of British Colombia, Canada, and some of these most important carbon stores are now slated for destruction in the name of “economic development”, read more in...
World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Join GCRA”s Tom Goreau and an international team of scientists on Friday June 5 at 10:30AM EST at the World Environment Day Webinar on Ecosystem Services and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To attend, please access Calma Expeditions on Facebook...
First Biorock projects in India
The first Biorock coral reef restoration projects have been started in India by a team from the Zoological Survey of India, with support from the Gujarat Forestry Department and the Global Coral Reef Alliance. The scientific team, led by...
Corals Are Our Future Festival in Indonesia, June & July 2020
In the celebration of World Reef Day, World Environment Day, World Ocean Day, and Coral Triangle Day, this time we are supporting Biorock Indonesia, in their event “Corals Are Our Future Festival”. This festival aims to support the Coral Reef Restoration in...
Covid Halts Dolphin Pollution in Discovery Bay, Jamaica
May 14, 2020 COVID Halts Dolphin Pollution In Discovery Bay, Jamaica Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance The Covid-19 virus is now helping clean up coastal water quality in Jamaica through a chain of unexpected indirect environmental...
Climate-proofing Coastlines with Biorock Technology
Climate Proofing Beaches and Coastlines with Biorock Technology https://youtu.be/cv2h8Uv-MEs Biorock Technology grows back severely eroded beaches at record rates by regenerating marine ecosystems and is the most cost-effective solution for protecting...
Great Barrier Reef bleaching should decrease in the coming weeks
The latest Goreau-Hayes Coral Bleaching HotSpot map shows that the exceptionally hot temperatures across the entire Great Barrier reef (which GCRA first warned about a month ago) have just started to decline in recent days, but they still are still well above...
