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What’s the difference between fringing reefs, atolls and barrier reefs?

Coral reefs may look similar at first glance, but their shapes, locations and structures reveal how they form – and how vulnerable they are.
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Researchers make 'fascinating' discovery after examining isolated areas of ocean: 'Substantially more work is required'

A new study published by oceanographers from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) found that remote atoll coral reefs are more resilient than previously thought because of their ability ...
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Coastal flooding could save atoll islands from rising seas – but only if their reefs remain healthy

Gerd Masselink received funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund for this research. Paul Simon Kench receives funding from: Catalyst Fund: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, NZ ...
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Insidious coral killer invading Palmyra Atoll reef

The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...
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Is climate change disrupting maritime boundaries?

Coral reef islands and their reefs -- found across in the Indo-Pacific -- naturally grow and shrink due to complex biological and physical processes that have yet to be fully understood. Now, climate ...

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Another way to check the health of a coral reef: Study the microbes in the seawater

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine pollution. It lives throughout the sunlit layer of tropical oceans and, ...
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China says Philippine warships 'damaged' reef at atoll in South China Sea

FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of the contested Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Monday "illegal" beaching of Philippine warships at the Nansha islands in the South ...
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Ships sunk in nuclear tests host diverse corals, study says. But do we need them?

Researchers surveyed 29 warships at Bikini Atoll and Chuuk Lagoon and found that they hosted up to a third of coral genera found on natural reefs in neighboring regions. This study has led researchers ...
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As climate change threatens Pacific Islands, some atolls have been growing. Now scientists have figured out why

Low-lying atolls in the Pacific Ocean have long been considered some of the most vulnerable areas to climate change, as rising sea levels threaten to submerge them. But over the past decade, ...
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MacGillivray Freeman's Coral Reef Adventure

An expedition to the South Pacific to document beautiful and endangered coral reefs. Coral Reef Adventure follows filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall on a daring expedition across the South Pacific to ...