Maldives Nurses Its Coral Reefs Back to Life

By Alan Wheatley (Reuters) VABBINFARU, Maldives (Reuters) – Scientists in the Maldives watched spellbound under the full moon as reproducing corals ejected pink-orange eggs and bundles of sperm — proof the islands’ endangered reefs are on the road to...

Grief on the Reef New Scientist March 5, 2004 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may be on the verge of a massive outbreak of coral bleaching caused by sea temperatures soaring for the third time in six years. “The entire reef has been in a bleaching hotspot for the past...

Reef Reborn Into the Unseen World

Most of Bali’s coral reefs have been destroyed, and lie tortured and lifeless on the sea bed. Coral bleaching and a deadly combination of explosives and cyanide fishing have wiped out the reefs and much of the marine life that once teemed around them. This program...