El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
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Scientists went to the heart of the El Niño pattern to learn from living and fossil corals. The results show El Niño’s intensifying coincides with global warming.
El Niño can trigger intense periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves that can devastate marine life.
The dead remains of foundation species can boost or deter how well future generations are able to grow and thrive.
Healthy coral reefs can significantly reduce hurricane damage for coastlines, yet many still face harms, including pollution and ship damage, that people have the power to stop.
Seagrasses are often overlooked, but they are among the most important coastal habitats on Earth.
The results reveal new patterns in how Pacific societies shaped their built environment after European contact.
The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help them recover?
A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?
Satellite technology that can track ships even when they ‘go dark’ finds that those protected areas that fully ban industrial fishing are succeeding, even if others aren’t.
As baby corals float in the currents, they can expand their species’ range. But can they get to climate refuges fast enough to survive? A new study has good news and bad.
We still know very little about the ecology of mesophotic ecosystems, but they support long-lived protected species that form an essential part of the food web.
America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.
Warm, deeper water can shut down the ocean’s natural ‘air conditioner’, putting corals at even greater risk.
Improvements in heat tolerance remain modest compared to future heatwaves.
Remarkable diversity in heat tolerance can help coral reefs under climate change.
Dozens of animals, some on land but many in the ocean, can produce light within their bodies through chemical reactions. Scientists are still trying to understand when and why this trait developed.
Global ocean temperatures have been at record highs almost daily for over a year, and economies are feeling the heat.
Just as the world’s zoos breed critically endangered animals in captivity to repopulate the wild, scientists are building a global effort to freeze corals for reef restoration.
The Great Barrier Reef is facing its worst summer of sustained heat stress since the mass bleaching event of 1998, but now with less time to recover amid repeated brutal conditions.
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Associate Professor, Marine Ecology, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
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Research Program Director, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Change Ecology and Evolution, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Associate in Biological Sciences, Florida International University
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Senior Research Fellow in Marine Biology, Southern Cross University
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Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Marine Biology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Coral Reef Laboratory, University of Southampton
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CSIRO Research Group Leader Ecosystem Modelling and Risk Assessment, CSIRO
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University