by Tom Goreau | May 21, 2024
Today the Law Of The Sea tribunal ruled that Small Island States, inter alia, have the legal rights and obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution leading to climate change impacts on marine natural resources. Governments are required to prevent pollution,...
by Tom Goreau | Mar 8, 2024
Great Barrier Reef bleaches again, as predicted, but continues exporting corals The Coral Bleaching HotSpot prediction method, developed by the Global Coral Reef Alliance in the 1980s, has projected every major bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef. We warned a...
by Tom Goreau | Feb 24, 2024
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION A massive Maldives project to dump dredged material on top of reefs to create artificial islands has been stopped for the first time by a Maldives Court Injunction, due to lack of scientifically sound...
by Tom Goreau | Feb 1, 2024
Jamaican Daily Gleaner January 30 2024 Crisis below the waves: The battle for coral reef transparency and survival DR THOMAS Goreau, a pioneer in marine science, is sounding a clarion call for greater transparency regarding the alarming extent of coral reef damage...
by Tom Goreau | Dec 2, 2023
December 1, 2023 COP28: CORAL REEF EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING REQUIRES REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance 2023 is the hottest year in history, and Jamaica was the worst affected, with the highest...
by Tom Goreau | Sep 23, 2023
MIT NEWS, 2021 Healthy coral reef, Upolu, Samoa, June 2023 by Gideon Brosius