Some coral communities are becoming more heat tolerant as ocean temperatures rise, offering hope for corals in a changing climate. After a series of marine heatwaves hit the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in the central Pacific Ocean, a new study finds _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/some-coral-reefs-are-keeping-pace-with-ocean-warming/

Coral living in the Northern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba are at risk of bleaching if the water temperature drops, new research has shown. A joint collaboration between Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/red-sea-coral-reefs-at-risk-of-bleaching-if-temperature-drops-study/

Researchers have discovered some corals can recover from bleaching even before a heat wave ends, suggesting they have the potential to survive long heat waves. Just a few degrees of heat can “bleach” corals, putting them on a path to _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/scientists-surprised-that-coral-reefs-survive-heat-waves-and-bleaching-events/

“We were expecting to see widespread mortality, and we just didn’t see it ….” It was a depressing, if expected inevitability when Western Australia’s Rowley Shoals showed the first signs of mass coral bleaching earlier this year, but a follow-up _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/scientists-surprised-that-coral-reefs-recover-after-bleaching/

(CN) — Some coral reefs are adapting to warming ocean temperatures by making their own sunscreen in the form of bright neon colors — a strategy which invites coral animals to return to reefs and is seen as a critical _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/scientists-discover-that-coral-reefs-can-adapt-to-warming-ocean-temps/

A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coral-reefs-in-turks-and-caicos-islands-resist-global-bleaching-event/

Nearly four years after the worst bleaching event in the state’s history, coral reefs in West Hawaiʽi are stabilizing and poised to recover, according to scientists from The Nature Conservancy. Higher than usual ocean water temperatures in 2015 caused the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/after-el-nino-bleaching-coral-reefs-begin-to-recover/

This unreliability of the science is now a widely accepted scandal in many other areas of study and it has a name: the replication crisis. When checks are made to replicate or confirm scientific results, it is regularly found that _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coral-reefs-can-take-the-heat-unlike-experts-crying-wolf/

A new WCS study reveals evidence that some corals are adapting to warming ocean waters – potentially good news in the face of recent reports of global coral die offs due to extreme warm temperatures in 2016. The study appears _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/new-study-some-coral-reefs-are-adapting-to-warming-oceans-just-fine/

Although some researchers have raised concerns about possible negative effects of rising CO2 on ocean surface pH, there are several lines of evidence demonstrating marine ecosystems are far more sensitive to fluxes of carbon dioxide from ocean depths and the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/how-gaia-and-coral-reefs-regulate-ocean-ph/

Despite the unprecedented extent of coral bleaching around the world, a major new study has also found “bright spots” where corals are doing significantly better than anyone expected. Local fishermen are often good stewards of the ocean, a new study _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coral-reefs-doing-better-than-expected-in-many-areas/

New research has found that coral can release a chemical that helps them engineer their environment and stave off warming. Coral reefs are on the receiving end of the battering ram that is anthropogenic climate change. With their vibrant colors and exotic fish, _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/gaia-action-coral-reefs-inbuilt-mechanism-adapts-local-temperature/