Maldivian Coral Reef Society

10/04/2025

Coral Restoration

Global restoration efforts are failing to protect coral reefs from the effects of climate change, pollution and overfishing, says an international team of

03/04/2025

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/remarkable-healing-power-seabird-poop-climate-stressed-coral-reefs

Scientists are just beginning to understand the important connections between the health of seabird nesting colonies above water and reef ecosystems below.

15/11/2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-change-threatening-40-worlds-corals-extinction-conservation/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&id=115769573

A good read but one should really evaluate contribution of coral reef restoration? Is it really significant?

Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new research.

26/09/2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-73079-3?fbclid=IwY2xjawFhv5lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU7AsMmIBvqK6BVgZfkj9AKIaPoM5j4oF0eTc7Qxeh7SXvtTjBxpFdcJjw_aem_R7dTVfIDz7EiSIk9XypILg

Tiger sharks are apex predators with a circumglobal tropical and warm-temperate distribution, with a general lack of population data for the central Indian Ocean. In Fuvahmulah, Maldives, tiger sharks display frequent use of the harbour area, attracted by discarded fish waste. Here, we document the....

06/02/2024

23/12/2023

According to the study, these islands are naturally growing up to one centimetrer a year by accreting sediment - enough to outpace most predictions of sea level rise.

Coral atolls are not necessarily doomed to drown but could outgrow sea level rise, a new scientific article argues.

04/10/2023

Eastern Mediterranean is slowly becoming tropical due to climate change.

Due to global warming, coral species common in Red Sea are finding sufficiently warm waters in which to survive off Israel's northern Mediterranean coast

18/08/2023

https://apnews.com/article/florida-keys-coral-bleaching-caribbean-45e03ca1a6521e46720119b799e96116

Experts say Florida's coral reef is suffering an unprecedented and potentially deadly level of severe bleaching because of rising sea temperatures sparked by climate change.

11/08/2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06394-w
Reefs with increased herbivorous fish populations and reduced land-based impacts, such as wastewater pollution and urban runoff, had positive coral cover trajectories predisturbance are more resilient to coral mortality following severe heat stress compared to reefs with reduced fish populations and enhanced land-based impact.

Surveys of reef change are combined with a unique 20-year time series of land–sea human impacts and the results show that integrated land–sea management could help achieve coastal ocean conservation goals and provide coral reefs with the best opportunity to persist in our changing climate.

07/05/2023

10/04/2023

We have brand new assets, graphics and a social media toolkit launching next week -- on April 17th -- or the 50 day mark to !

Watch this space.

10/04/2023