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Biologists, Divers, and Fishers Are Creating Inventive Tools to Combat a Lionfish Invasion

Lionfish are non-native invaders introduced to Florida waters 30 years ago that have since proliferated to pestilent levels and unleashed an ecological crisis that is only getting worse

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Seven ‘Pacific Standard’ Stories for Earth Day

Highlighting the mess humans have made of the planet—and radical plans to fix it.

A school of fish pass over a coral reef at Hanauma Bay on January 15th, 2005, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Corals Can Withstand Another Century of Climate Change

Heat-tolerant genes may spread through coral populations fast enough to give the marine creatures a tool to survive another 100 years of warming in our oceans.

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How Coral Bleaching Events Affect Ecological Diversity

As a result of rising ocean temperatures coral bleaching is becoming more common, and it's causing a biotic homogenization of local fish populations.

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Our Plastic Waste Is Destroying the World’s Coral Reefs

New research shows the extent to which our dependence on plastic is infecting, damaging, and killing coral reefs from Thailand to Australia.

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Ending the Ecologically Harmful Capture of Tropical Fish

Experts are hoping that new captive breeding programs, replacing harmful fishing practices, could help prevent future harm to coral reef ecosystems.

An aerial view taken on February 27th, 2016, shows coral reefs in New Caledonia in the South Pacific.

Environment

Climate Change Is Starving Our Coral Reefs

A new study shows that coral bleaching events are recurring faster than reef ecosystems can recover.

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Could Dust Storms From Africa Be Damaging Ecosystems in the Florida Keys?

It appears that dust blown off the Sahara desert may be initiating harmful bacteria growth in coral reefs across the Atlantic.

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher

Environment

Behind the Restorative Effects of Coral Gardening

The technique involves planting fragments of nursery-raised coral on reefs in the wild to replenish depleted colonies.

The small island of Koh, surrounded by coral reef in Raja Ampat, located in eastern Indonesia's Papua region.

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What It Would Take to Restore One of the World’s Richest Marine Ecosystems

Raja Ampat, an island chain off the coast of New Guinea, is home to perhaps the world's richest marine biodiversity