The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences stands alone at the tip of Queensland’s Cape Cleveland and looks out over the Coral Sea, toward the Great Barrier Reef.

On a tiny island called Ofu, part of American Samoa just south of the equator and east of the International Date Line, corals are doing something that might have once seemed impossible.

The case for coral restoration rests on not repopulating reefs coral by coral, but in preserving the genetic diversity the species needs to stay resilient.

AN OA refuge is a small geographical areas which could, through the use of naturally occurring materials, create a small halo area where OA is reduced or even eliminated.

Making impactful, visual indicators of our changing climate isn’t an easy task. Climate change is a gradual process, so it’s difficult to visibly show people what’s happening. Our oceans are changing, but we don’t notice the centimeter waters have risen or the amount they’re acidifying. But coral bleaching and reef decline are capturable: There are […]