Scientists discover the world’s largest coral — so big it can be seen from space
It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...
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New Approach to Coral Reef Conservation
According to a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers found that a mixture of chlorine and cocoa butter ...
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Coral biodiversity hotspot at risk from fossil fuel expansion, report warns
Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP 16 ...
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See Staggering Photos of the World’s Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean
The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...
Climate change threatening more than 40% of the world's corals with extinction, conservation group says
Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new ...
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23 Photos of the World’s Largest Coral That Was Just Discovered in the Solomon Islands
The world's largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the ...
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Bigger than blue whale: World’s largest coral is so huge it’s visible from space
In a stunning discovery, the world’s largest coral has been found thriving in the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific ...
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Uncovering Coral Larvae’s Adaptive Strategy Against Climate-Driven Bleaching
Research reveals coral larvae adapt to high temperatures by reducing metabolism and increasing nitrogen intake, enhancing ...
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World's biggest coral — so big it can be seen from space — discovered by chance off Solomon Islands
The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...
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World’s largest coral found in the Pacific
Coral reefs also underpin the livelihoods of one billion people ... according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. That is an increase of a third since the species were last ...
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Experiments find coral reefs can survive some climate change—with help
These findings suggest that coral conservation in a changing world is possible—but urgent action is essential. This work was conducted by the Toonen-Bowen "ToBo" Lab, with partners at UH Mānoa ...