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Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- Acoustic monitoring: Marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching - Raick et al (2025)
- Acropora spp. Coral Gardening Using Fragmentation and Direct Transplantation (China) - Li et al (2025)
- Benthic communities on restored coral reefs: aesthetic value - Alisa et al (2025)
- Benthic Underwater Microscope PAM (BUMP): microstructure and photosynthetic efficiency - Ben-Zvi et al (2025) - article and video (Eleanor Higgs, IFL)
- Biobanking Emerges as Priority: Coral Experts Reject Restoration as ‘Costly Distraction’ - Vinton et al (2025)
- Coral Farming Strategies: A Comparative Study of Nursery Types, Biodiversity and Environmental Conditions (Mauritius) - Nazurally et al (2025)
- Coral genetic structure mirrors ocean circulation and thermal stress (W. Indian Ocean) - Guillaume et al (2025)
- Coral growth records: 20th Century sea-level acceleration and climatic variability (Maldives) - Kench at al (2025)
- Coral planulae settlement: negative effects of microplastic leachate - Wilkins & Richmond (2025)
- Coral Reef Restoration: Active Biopaste - Corigliano et al (2025)
- Coral Reefs of the Andaman Sea – Factors Affecting Resilience, Recovery and Reef Refugia - Brown et al (2025)
- CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding - Han et al (2025) - ChatGPT & AI
- Coupling of excitation energy to photochemistry in natural marine phytoplankton communities under iron stress - Pupulewatte et al (2025)
- Cycloprodigiosin: A multispecies settlement cue for scleractinian coral larvae - Fiegel et al (2025)
- Designing Tomorrow’s Coral Reefs: 3dcp potential in innovative artificial reefs [PDF] - Dias et al (2025)
- Effects of shading aquaculture pools on coral larvae health and production - Langley et al (2025)
- Effects of three sunscreens on the ecophysiology of hard and soft corals from the Maldives - Rücker et al (2025)
- Elevated temperature decreases stony coral tissue loss disease transmission, with little effect of nutrients - Palacio-Castro et al (2025)
- Future of coral bleaching research - Grottoli et al (2025)
- Gravid green turtles employ a mixed capital-income breeding strategy where food is abundant - Okuyama et al (2025)
- Grazing deterrents improve survival of outplanted juvenile corals - van der Steeg et al (2025)
- Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) hatchlings: Thresholds of visible light detection - Gammariello & Dunbar
- Herbivore community function shapes resilience and bistability of coral reefs - Sura et al (2025)
- Highly siloed nutrient pathways fuel meso-predator fishes on coral reefs - McMahon et al (2025)
- Horizontal transmission of heat-evolved microalgal symbionts in adult corals - Johnston et al (2025)
- Interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming disrupt calcification and microbiome composition in bryozoans - Figuerola et al (2025)
- Intergenerational metabolomic signatures of bleaching resistance in corals - Roach et al (2025)
- Mangrove Ecosystems (Maldives): Diversity, Habitat Typology and Conservation Priorities - Aishath Ali Farhath et al (2025)
- Mechanical underwater adhesive devices (MUSAS) for soft substrates (inspired by remoras) - Kang et al (2025)
- Microplastics: Linking Tourism Activity to Occurrence and Distribution - Chairunnisa et al (2025)
- Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic - ten Hietbrink et al (2025) microplastics
- Outplanted corals: Ecological quantitative criteria for reef site prioritisation to maximise survivorship and growth - Humanes et al (2025)
- Photogrammetry: Multiscale structural complexity assessment of coral reefs - Barrera-Falcón et al (2025)
- Plastic ingestion in marine turtles: best practice framework for assessment - González-Paredes et al (2025)
- Porites : Green fluorescent proteins show divergent patterns (GBR) - Goyen et al (2025)
- Post-bleaching patterns of Acanthaster, Culcita, & Drupella, in coral nurseries and reefs (Kaafu Atoll, Maldives) - Mohamad & Migliaccio (2025)
- Predator–prey interactions on coral reefs: seasonal dynamics and environmental drivers of reef halos - Lester et al (2025)
- Rising cover amid population density decline: the unstable demography of Acropora digitifera coral (Palau, W.Pacific) - Lachs et al (2025)
- Satellite tracking contributions to male sea turtle spatial ecology - Fuentes et al (2025)
- Sea turtle nest flooding: Beach groundwater response to ocean processes and rain - Christiaanse et al (2025) - and - Christiaanse et al (2025): Measurements of groundwater, hydrodynamics, and sand characteristics at a dissipative sea turtle nesting beach
- Secondary Microplastics Disrupt Early Coral Development: Brooding & Broadcast-Spawning Species - García-Galindo t al (2025)
- Stony coral species: Establishment of menthol bleaching protocols - Bauer et al (2025)
- Structure and complexity of a rariphotic coral ecosystem (Red Sea) - Chimienti et al (2025)
- Using Tourist Diver Photos to Assess the Effects of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Reefs (Red Sea) - Anderson B. Mayfield (2025)
- Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth (Maldives) - Stefanoudis et al (2025)
- Wild Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Provision People (Homo sapiens) - Towers et al (2025) - Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? (ScienceDirect, 2 July)
Carbon sequestration in mangrove ecosystems (2025) Ali et al
Ocean stratification in a warming climate (2025) Cheng
Climate Change Science ▼
- 🔥 Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion - Vogt-Vincent et al (2025)
- Climate Change Adaptation Plan: Prevent Coral Species Extinction – UNESCO “Reefs of Hope” (Fiji) - Austin Bowden-Kerby (2025)
- Climate change drives shifts in straddling fish stocks in the world’s ocean - Palacios-Abrantes et al (2025)
- Ecological Responses to Extreme Climatic Events: A Systematic Review of the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave - Starko et al (2025) - Oceanography and Marine Biology - The heatwave that shattered ecosystems, starved whales, and drove fish north (ScienceDaily, 25 July)
- Increasing Heat Pile-Up Events in the Southeast Indian Ocean Linked to Multi-Year La Niña Conditions - Li et al (2025)
- Local acceleration of coastal flood risk in response to relative sea level change - Paulik et al (2025)
- Local Environmental Filtering and Frequency of Marine Heatwaves Influence Decadal Trends in Coral Composition (Lakshadweep) - Dey et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves impact organism developmental time - Giménez & Torres (2025)
- Ocean circulation going South? - realclimate.org (13 Jul)
- Regional sea level trend budget over 2004–2022 - Bouih et al (2025)
- Sea level rise: Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions - Chandanpurkar et al (2025)
- Seafloor marine heatwaves outpace surface events in the future on the northwestern European shelf - Wilson et al (2025)
- Southern Ocean Time Series: hydrography, biogeochemistry, phytoplankton, and carbon export - Shadwick et al (2025)
- Spatio-temporal changes in interannual sea level along the world coastlines - Leclercq et al (2025)
- Summer warming in the East Antarctic interior triggered by southern Indian Ocean warming - Kurita et al (2025)
- We fact-checked the Trump administration’s climate report - Washington Post (31 July)
- Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? - CarbonBrief (9 July) - expert statements
Global Ocean Heat Content (OHC) 1970-2024
AMOC shutdown 2100 Drijfhout et al (2025)
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SST Maldives (1850-2024) [climate reanalyzer ersst5_21]
Sea Level Rise (Maldives & Indian Ocean) 1930-2020
Global mean sea-level contributors (1993–2021) Törnqvist et al (2025)
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Sea Level Rise Accelerating (1910-2030) [@PCarterClimate, D.Nuccitelli, ClimateChangeTracker]
Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- Acclimation mechanisms of coral juveniles (Acropora gemmifera) to long-term CO2-driven ocean acidification - Guo et al (2025)
- Acropora hyacinthus: taxonomy, systematics and biogeography - Rassmussen et al (2025)
- Acropora tenuis: Time-Series RNA-Seq Reveals Molecular Waves Leading to Synchronous Mass Spawning of Scleractinian Corals - Yoshioka et al (2025)
- AI-driven Dispensing of Coral Reseeding Devices for Broad-scale Restoration (GBR) - Raine et al (2025)
- Australia’s Great Barrier Reef devastated by worst coral bleaching on record - Jessie Yeung (CNN, 06 Aug)
- Bacterial regulation of coral larval metamorphosis and settlement in Pocillopora damicornis - Guo et al (2025)
- Bleaching Impacts on the Last Remaining Acropora-dominated Reefs in the United Arab Emirates - Hadj-Hammou et al (2025)
- Chromatin accessibility and heat stress gene expression in the reef-building coral, Acropora millepora - Guerrero et al (2025) preprint
- Collapse of Herbivorous Fish Control of Invasive Algae During Marine Heatwaves - Brijs et al (2025)
- Community ecology dynamics on reefs in Fiji are dependent on soft coral density and depth - Stephenson et al (2025)
- Conservation of coral genetic diversity through a global biorepository network - Hagedorn et al (2025)
- Coral Bleaching and Recovery: Thermal Stress Event 2023–2024 (Jakarta, Indonesia) - Razak et al (2025)
- Coral colony size & morphology (Acropora & Pocillopora): predictors of associated fish assemblages [PDF] - Duekilde & Møller (2025) MSc thesis
- Coral Pachyseris speciosa: Effects of light limitation on photophysiology (Singapore’s turbid reefs) - Toniolo et al (2025) MaRHE
- Coral reef fish: juvenile development under ocean warming and acidification - Cane et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration in the Mexican Pacific: active interventions and scaling approaches - Tortolero-Langarica et al (2025)
- Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential - Toth et al (2025)
- Coral thermotolerance retained following year-long exposure to a novel environment - Roper et al (2025)
- Coral-associated invertebrates as indicators of reef health in the Caribbean - van der Schoot et al (2025)
- Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night - Tom Shlesinger (2025)
- Drone-based photogrammetry of marine megafauna: workflow of open-source tools - Bierlich et al (2025)
- Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral cover - AIMS (06 Aug)
- Great Barrier Reef on the Brink: Australia’s Natural Wonder Suffers Worst Coral Collapse in History - Andrea Trinidad (IBTimes, 06 Aug)
- Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record - Tom McArthur (BBC News)
- Great Barrier Reef: Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2024/25 - AIMS, 6 August
- Great Barrier Reef: World’s biggest coral survey confirms sharp decline - AIMS (06 Aug)
- Helix recesses boost coral larvae settlement and survival - Reichert et al (2025)
- High abundances of crustose coralline algae inside cryptic coral habitats linked to coral reef functioning - Rothstein et al (2025)
- Imagining outcomes of coral restoration and adaptation intervention (GBR) - Lockie et al (2025)
- Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography (GBR) - Doropoulos (preprint)
- Large marine protected areas can encompass movements of diverse megafauna - Trevail et al (2025)
- Local Adaptation May Help Mitigate Feminisation of Sea Turtle Populations Globally - Tromp et al (2025)
- Mangrove Avicennia marina: Phytochemical Profiling, Antioxidant Activity, In-Vitro Cytotoxic Potential (Maldives) - Cerri et al (2025) MaRHE
- Mortality and recovery rates of Acropora fragments on in-situ nurseries after the 2023 bleaching event (Turks & Caicos) - DeBuysser et al (2025) preprint
- Moving Beyond Temperature Metrics in Coral Bleaching Prediction Using Interpretable Machine Learning - Cheung et al (2025)
- Multidecadal decoupling between coral calcifying fluid and seawater saturation states - Hankins & DeCarlo (2025)
- Nyinggulu Reef at Risk: Thermal Anomalies, Coral Mortality, and the Erosion of Resilience (Ningaloo, GBR) - Kate M. Quigley (2025)
- Patterns of coral spawning in the Palm Islands, Great Barrier Reef - Mera et al (2025)
- Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change - Richardson et al (2025) Bangor University
- Regulation of coral assemblages: Spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of recruits, juveniles, and adults - Botosoamananto et al (2025)
- Reproductive cycle of reef-building scleractinians from a Mediterranean mesophotic coral reef - Semeraro et al (2025)
- Resolving the impact of benthic and cryptic predation on the crown-of-thorns starfish [PDF] - Wolfe et al (2025) - COTS Control Innovation Program
- Sea star wasting disease: bacterium identified - Andy Deng (The Guardian, 5 Aug) - podcast interview with Dr Melanie Prentice
- Sea star wasting disease: Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent - Prentice et al (2025) - DOI link (paywalled)
- Sea turtles: Aging dynamics in captivity reflect conserved life-history patterns across the testudine phylogeny - Glen et al (2025)
- Seascape Genomics Reveal Contrasting Population Structure in Sympatric and Congeneric Corals Across Thermal Clines - Magena R. Marzonie et al (2025)
- Species-specific retention vs. recovery of coral thermal tolerance following nursery propagation - Szereday et al (2025)
- The State Of The World’s Sea Turtles: SWOT Report #20 - Atlas of Global Sea Turtle Status (2025)
Indicators of a Warming World (skepticalscience.com)
Daily SST World + SST Anomaly Map (Aug 2025)
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Global Temperature climate change tracker [13 Aug 2025] (Peter Carter)
Drazen (2020) Deep-sea mining (Amanda Dillon, graphic artist) PNAS
Climate Change Science ▼
- A climate of unparalleled malevolence: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? - Peter Brannen (The Guardian, 19 Aug)
- AMOC Collapse Under Climate Change: Physics-Based Indicators - van Westen et al (2025)
- Connecting the Past and the Future to Build Regional Sea-Level Projections - Le Bars et al (2025)
- Deep Ocean Steric Sea Level Change in the Subtropical Northwest Atlantic Ocean - Zilberman et al (2025)
- Evaluating IPCC Projections of Global Sea-Level Change From the Pre-Satellite Era - Törnqvist et al (2025)
- Flooding Risks in Malé (Maldives): From the Past to Present [PDF] - Shamin et al (2026) working paper
- Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks - Merow et al (2025)
- Pacific Ocean changes may ‘lock in’ US megadrought for decades - James Dinneen (New Scientist, 13 Aug)
- Radiative forcing due to aerosol-cloud interactions for shallow warm clouds (Indian Ocean) - Kumar et al (2025)
- Sea Surface Temperatures Hit 97.7F (36.5C) – ‘One of the Highest’ Ever Recorded (Persian Gulf) - Jess Thomson (Newsweek, 27 Aug)
- Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 (CMIP6) - Drijfhout et al (2025)
- articles (28 Aug): Potsdam - and - The Guardian
- Subsurface manifestation of marine heat waves in the southwestern Indian Ocean - Welch et al (2025) copernicus
SST N.Pacific August averages (1950-2025) world climate service
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SST Averages for August (1982-2025) [climatecasino.net]
Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- 3D bioprinting of coral-polyp bio-skin for transplantation on coral skeletons - Valle-Pérez et al (2025)
- Acute Toxicity of Arsenate and Arsenite in Two Scleractinian Coral Species: Acropora cervicornis and Orbicella faveolata - Cailey Dorman (2025)
- Adaptation Strategies of Small-Scale Marine Fisheries in Response to Climate Change, Resources, Systemic Shocks - Shah et al (2025)
- Advancing coral reef ecological engineering for large-scale seascaping on soft seabeds: comparison of artificial reef designs - Giraldes et al (2025)
- Aggregations of free-living corals facilitate reef expansion at upper mesophotic depth (Seychelles) - Samimi-Namin et al (2025)
- Aiding sea turtle conservation through coastal management - Christiaanse et al (2025)
- Algal Blooms: Australia’s southern coast is in uncharted waters - by Daniel Keane (ABC, 30 Sep) photostory
- Anthropogenic forcing drives equatorward migration of heatwave locations across continents - Feng et al (2025)
- Building heat-resilient Caribbean reefs: integrating thermal thresholds and coral colonies selection in restoration - Pimentel et al (2025)
- Comparative genomics of two closely related Acropora coral species with different spawning seasons - Takahashi-Kariyazono et al (2025)
- Controlled out-of-season spawning of reef-forming corals using offset environmental cues - Koukoumaftsis et al (2025)
- Coral bleaching reveals unexpected taxa-specific responses (2020, Red Sea) - Dunn et al (2025) - RESILIENCE: Most = Porites, Montipora, Pocillopora, Stylophora // Least = Acropora, Goniastrea, Xeniidae, Sclerophytum
- Coral persistence under climate change: Growth rate and adaptive capacity (not just thermal tolerance) are critical - Vogt-Vincent et al (2025)
- Coral Reef Diseases: R&D Technology Roadmap [PDF] - Banaszak et al (2025) CORDAP
- Coral reef restoration: Ecosystem process recovery (AI-accelerated soundscape analysis) - Williams et al (2025)
- Coral restoration as economic stimulus: a case study from the Florida Keys (USA) - Winters & Rothwell (2025)
- Coral Spawn Automated Monitoring for Reef Restoration: Imaging Camera System (CSLICS) - Tsai et al (2025)
- Coral-killing sponge (Terpios hoshinota): Genomic analysis reveals broad adaptability under environmental stress - Liu et al (2025)
- Corals of Opportunity: direct transplantation onto Mauritian sediment-impacted Reefs - Nadeem et al (2025)
- Crown-of-thorns starfish: A social license to operate theory for lethal control (Great Barrier Reef) - Bartelet et al (2025)
- Crustose Coralline Algae as a Proxy for Marine Nitrogen Cycling and Coral Trophic Strategies - Jung et al (2025) preprint
- Density dependent habitat selection in response to habitat loss in a coral reef fish - Boström- Einarsson et al (2025)
- Direct analysis of dissolved CO2 in coastal waters: development and validation of a simple method - Rangel-García et al (2025)
- Dynamics of thermal stress events: do thermotolerant endosymbionts improve or hamper survival of coral reefs - Bonforti et al (2025) preprint
- Ecophysiology of two mesophotic octocorals intended for restoration: Effects of light and temperature (USA) - Lange et al (2025)
- Enhancing coral larvae culture methods and settlement for coral reef restoration - Rodd (2025) PhD thesis
- Experimental nutrient enrichment during thermal stress mitigates coral bleaching in an oligotrophic reef setting, Maldives - Arnull et al (2025) preprint
- Extirpation of Acropora cervicornis genotypes from a coral nursery during the 2023 marine heatwave undermines conservation efforts - Le Gall et al (2025)
- Fate-tracking early coral recruits following bleaching in a remote reef ecosystem - Stratford et al (2025)
- Frag-n-Fly gardening method for coral restoration: fragmentation and outplanting - Giraldes et al (2025)
- Gulf & Caribbean Research: Volume 36, Issue 1 (2025) - 3D Printed Polylactide Structures - and - Macroalgal Composition
- Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts increase coral bleaching tolerance - Buerger et al (2025)
- Local Human Stressors on Tropical Benthic Communities: Remoteness Is Not a Silver Bullet (Maldives) - Stefanoudis et al (2025)
- Mangrove Plant (Sonneratia caseolaris): Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Potential (Maldives) - Cerri & Galli (2025) MaRHE
- Marine turtle nesting activity impacted by breakwaters (Cyprus) - Casale et al (2025)
- Mass puffer fish deaths and red-bell jellyfish bloom (Pilbara, W.Australia) - by Alistair Bates (ABC, 25 Sept)
- Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement - Levy et al (2025)
- Microplastic contamination in SE Asia’s blue carbon habitats – systematic review - Adnan et al (2025)
- Microplastics: Linking Tourism Activity to Occurrence and Distribution - Chairunnisa et al (2025)
- Motile infaunal diversity patterns across reef environments (Palau) – ‘Rubble in paradise’ - Biondi et al (2025)
- Multi-specific coral spawning and monsoonal transitions: assemblage-level observations from Baa Atoll, Maldives - Errington et al (2025) REEFSCAPERS
- Navigating danger: Watercraft-related mortality of sea turtles (USA) - Fuentes et al (2025)
- Oceanography Society Magazine – September 2025 - TOS.org bookshelf / library
- Parrotfish: Density-dependence and territorial competitors can modulate social foraging and herbivory on coral reefs - Thareja et al (2025) preprint
- Photoendosymbiosis of the Blue Subtropical Montipora Corals (South Pacific) - Vuleta et al (2025)
- Pole and Line Fishing: how a Maldives tradition is ensuring tuna stocks thrive - by Maya Yang (The Guardian, 04 Sept)
- Predation on crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) relative to fisheries management zones (GBR) [PDF] - Doll et al (2025)
- Reduced Atlantic reef growth past 2C warming amplifies sea-level impacts - Perry et al (2025) - article (17 Sept): Caribbean coral reefs are running out of time to keep up with rising seas
- Reefshark Genomescapes: Mapping Risk and Conservation Potential Across the Indo-Pacific - Johri et al (2025)
- Scaling up coral spawn collection: Impacts of method and timing on Acropora valida larval quality - Langley et al (2025)
- Species range shifts: mixed-species outbreak and coral predation by crown-of-thorns starfish on subtropical reefs - Sommer et al (2025)
- Thermally resistant coral Stylophora pistillata survives but does not thrive under chronic elevated baseline temperature - Hulver et al (2025) - Even the toughest corals are shrinking in warming seas (sciencedaily, 5 Sept)
- Tubastraea coccinea: a coral species with high invasive potential that benefits from ocean warming and acidification - Gallardo et al (2025)
- Turtle tracking reveals secrets of flatback turtles: World-first in Roebuck Bay, WA (Australia) - by Ruby Littler (ABC, 20 Sept)
- UN High Seas Treaty: crosses threshold to come into force - Esme Stallard (BBC, 20 Sept)
- Wave Attenuation by Restored Coral Reef Canopies (MARRS Reef Stars) for Coastal Protection (Indonesia) - Geldard et al (2025)
- Withstanding the heat: Resilience of free-living coralline algae to marine heatwaves - Nannini et al (2025)
- Zoological Survey Of India – Special Issue 2025 - eg: Coral Health Issues, Coral Recruitment, etc.
Turtle Nest Flooding - conservation through coastal management (2025) Christiaanse
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Sea Level Rise Rate (global) [Copernicus Ocean State Report 9]
Planetary Health Check (2025) OHC - Ocean Heat Content
Planetary Health Check (2025) ocean acidification
Climate Change Science ▼
- 🔥 Copernicus Ocean State Report 9 - OSR9 Press Release (23 Sept 2025) - full report (155 page PDF)
- 🔥 Planetary Health Check 2025 - Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet (PIK Potsdam, 24 Sept)
- A climate data record of atmospheric moisture and sea surface temperature from satellite observations - Fu et al (2025)
- A global sea turtle climate vulnerability assessment - Lettrich et al (2025)
- Advancing global hindcast of extreme sea levels: Insights from a 65-year study - Wang & Bernier (2025)
- Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report - by Dana Nuccitelli (Yale Climate, 15 Sept)
- Coral Sea (Australia) current system: Historical and near-future (2050) projections (CMIP6) - Schlaefer et al (2025)
- Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by mid-century - Halpern et al (2025)
- Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare - National Academies of Sciences (2025)
- Europe’s Environment and Climate Report 2025 - EEA (European Environmental Agency, 29 Sept) 5-yearly report
- Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass - Ribalet et al (2025) - Ocean warming puts vital marine microbe at risk (washington.edu, 08 Sept)
- Global dataset of storm surges and extreme sea levels for 1950–2024 (ERA5) - Aleksandrova et al (2025) preprint
- Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050 - by Sonia Fernandez (ucsb.edu, 4 Sept) - "Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by mid-century"
- Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. - NYT (04 Sept)
- Intensification of extreme cold events in East Asia in response to global mean sea-level rise - Dong et al (2025)
- La Niña may return but temperatures are likely to be above average - WMO (02 Sept)
- Ocean acidification joins the danger zone: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached - Potsdam (24 Sept)
- Ocean acidification: key health-check failed as ocean acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life - Jonathan Watts (Guardian, 24 Sept)
- Ocean stratification in a warming climate [PDF] - Cheng et al (2025)
- Rate of Global Warming Could Double, says ex-NASA climate scientist James Hansen - Bob Berwyn (insideClimateNews, 15 Sept)
- Tropical Pacific Warming Patterns Influence Future Hydroclimate Shifts and Extremes in the Americas - Heede et al (2025)
Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems (2025) Halpern
WMO State of the Climate in Asia (2024) SST
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Climate change impacts on water [EEA 2025]
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SSTa N.Pacific warming accelerated (1850-2025) berkelyearth [@RARohde]
Future Summertime Marine Heatwaves in the Indian Ocean in Response to Enhanced Variability of the Western North Pacific Subtropical High Under Warming Climate – Jayarathna et al (September 2025) – https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022626
Marine heatwaves can devastate coral reefs and disrupt local fisheries, and this new research paper suggests these events are about to get much more intense in the Indian Ocean. The culprit is a massive atmospheric system called the Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH), which is projected to strengthen and push further west as greenhouse gas emissions rise. This shift fundamentally alters regional wind patterns, reducing the ocean’s natural air conditioning (evaporative cooling and the upwelling of deep, chilly waters) leaving the sea surface to increasingly heat up under a changing climate.
This heating won’t be uniform across the basin:
– The Western Indian Ocean loses some of its cool upwelling, but an increase in cloud cover would reflect sunlight to counteract the worst temperature spikes.
– But in the NE and central Indian Ocean (including the Maldives region), the combination of weaker winds and reduced cloud cover allows solar radiation to heat the sea, potentially leading to more extreme and damaging heatwaves.
Coral loss and reef extinction – Reconciling urgency and restraint in the coral climate crisis (2025) Streit et al
Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- 🔥 Safeguarding the Great Barrier Reef’s role in Australia’s Economy (Oct 2025 report) - GBR Foundation & Deloitte Access Economics
- A draft genome assembly of the mushroom coral Podabacia crustacea (Pallas, 1766) - Tang et al (2025)
- A multi-molecular biomarker assessment of thermal preconditioning in two scleractinian coral species - Louis et al (2025)
- A review of the current knowledge of the flow of carbon and energy in scleractinian corals - Ianniello et al (2025)
- Alkalinity enrichment stimulates calcification and linear extension in Acropora cervicornis - Cooke et al (2025) preprint
- Amplified warming and marine heatwaves in the North Sea under a warming climate and their impacts - Mohamed et al (2025)
- Asexual reproduction in reef-building corals: fragment attachment to improve restoration and predict natural recovery - Lewis et al (2025)
- article: how corals attach to a reef (QUT, 29 Oct)
- Brazilian Coral Reefs: Tourism, Environmental Education, Aquarium Trade - Mendes et al (2025)
- Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes - Mikus et al (2025) - EMBL article (31 Oct): Expansion microscopy, marine microbes (Ichthyosporea)
- Co-occurrence patterns of photosymbiont genera in reef-building corals: a global review and meta-analysis - Allen et al (2025) preprint
- Coral Biopsy Technique (Minimally Invasive): In-Situ Microbiome and Metabolome Sampling - Berg et al (2025)
- Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases - Gouezo et al (2025)
- Coral larval settlement: Unravelling the role of crustose coralline algae microbiomes (GBR) - Turnlund et al (2025) preprint
- Coral spawning in East Africa: New in situ observations for three reef-building species (Zanzibar ) - Lillis & Jiddawi (2025) preprint
- Cosmetic UV filters used in sunscreens and their impact on corals put into perspective - Pawlowski et al (2025)
- Cost-effective coral settlement substrates for restoration - Widiastuti et al (2025) - settlement of Acropora millepora larvae to clay substrates
- Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: Detectability and Consequences for Culling or Removal - Pratchett et al (2025)
- Defining Site-Specific Water Quality Guidelines for Marine Microbiomes under Contaminant Stress - Thomas et al (2025)
- Demographic Insights for Coral Restoration - Madin et al (2025) preprint
- Developing coral seeding devices and rapid deployment methods to scale up reef restoration - Ramsby et al (2025)
- Digital Earth Maldives Initiative: An integrated system to support environmental decision-making [PDF] - Nashwan Matheen (2025) Earth Observation, Maldives Space Research Organisation
- Does land reclamation affect small-scale benthic communities? (Okinawa, Japan) - Ishibashi et al (2025) preprint
- Evaluating methods for high-resolution, national-scale seagrass mapping in Google Earth Engine [Maldives] - Floyd et al (2025)
- Evaluating stress antagonists for enhanced coral recovery after natural heat exposure - Mezger et al (2025)
- Evidence for a fisher-designed solution to manta and devil ray bycatch in tuna fisheries - Cronin et al (2025)
- Exploitation status and stock assessment of daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) (Indonesia) - Wijayanto et al (2025) - Biodiversitas 26.9 (2025)
- Functional Extinction of Two Critically Endangered Coral Species Following Record Heatwave in Florida - by Alice Granger (Coral Restoration Foundation, 24 Oct) - Paywalled paper: Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef - Manzello et al (2025)
- Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation ‘win’ - by Helen Briggs (BBC, 10 Oct) - IUCN Press release (Abu Dhabi, 10 Oct)
- Growth-predation risk tradeoffs constrain Staghorn coral (Acropora pulchra) to marginal reef habitats (Polynesia) - Ladd et al (2025)
- Heterotrophic feeding in coral juvenile survival, growth, and heat tolerance: ‘You are what you eat’ - Calvert et al (2025) thesis
- Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in coral Acropora cervicornis - Villafranca et al (2025) preprint
- Impact of warming and suspended terrigenous sediment on coral Montipora capitata (Hawaii) - Good et al (2025)
- Improving growth monitoring of Acropora cervicornis in nurseries and outplants (Caribbean) - Sánchez et al (2025)
- Long-distance gene flow and contrasting population structures of reef-building corals and their algal symbionts - Denis et al (2025)
- Long-term community dynamics are heterogeneous between fringing- and fore-reef habitats (Indo-Pacific) - Edmunds et al (2025)
- Long-Term Incubation Duration Decline: Climate-Change Driven Feminization of Three Sea Turtle Species (Florida) - Ceriani & Casale (2025)
- Macroalgal–Coral Interactions: Diversity, Abundance, and Spatial Patterns (New Caledonia) - by Vieira et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves disrupt the culling of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (GBR) - Cook et al (2025) preprint
- Marine Turtle Newsletter #169 (October 2025) - seaturtle.org
- Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching - by Malavika Vyawahare (mongabay, 30 Oct)
- Metabolic interactions between coral animal and endolithic bacterial communities - Chuang et al (2025) preprint
- Microplastics in Sediments: Methodology, Variability, Concentrations, Accumulation Rates (Virgin Islands) - Arbaugh et al (2025) thesis
- Microplastics Ingestion by Zooplankton Community of Coral Reefs (Lakshadweep) [PDF] - Sudheesh et al (2025) - thanks to Madhu for the paper
- Nature vs nurture? Light availability drives phenotypic plasticity within a reef coral species - Ducret et al (2025) preprint
- Ocean Species Discoveries 13–27 (Polychaeta, Mollusca, Crustacea) - SOSA et al (2025) - Yale.edu article: 30 new species discovered in deep Southern Ocean: ‘death ball’ sponge and glowing worms
- Octocoral dynamics over a decade on Florida’s coral reef - Liberman et al (2025)
- Recovery of locally managed reefs after a category-5 cyclone and extreme waves - Ford et al (2025)
- Restoration potential of corals from urbanized and marginal habitats in Florida - Studivan et al (2025)
- Role of mesophotic ecosystems to preserve reef fish biodiversity under climate change (tropical Pacific) - Valencia-Méndez et al (2025)
- Seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production - Gomis et al (2025)
- Spawning times and breeding trials suggest no inbreeding occurs between Porites aff. lutea and P. cf cylindrica - Terraneo et al (2025)
- Species range shifts on reefs: first observed mixed-species outbreak by crown-of-thorns starfish - Sommer et al (2025)
- Spirochaetota symbionts in the precious octocoral Corallium rubrum under heat stress - Gervais et al (2025)
- Stakeholder engagement as local marine stewardship action for coral reef restoration (Kenya) - Wambugu et al (2025)
- Sterols are key to coral larvae survival, swimming capacity, and thermal tolerance - Matthews et al (2025)
- Symbiodiniaceae shifts over the last decade on the hottest coral reefs on Earth (Arabian Gulf) - Fiesinger et al (2025) - coral endosymbiotic microalgae
- The effect of rubble stability on coral settlement and recruitment - Paewai-Huggins et al (2025) preprint
- The “blue community” of the Indian Ocean: cooperation, challenges and prospects for marine environmental protection - Zhang & Wan (2025)
- Vive la resilient: Don’t write off our corals just yet - by Darling & Wright (oceanographic, 30 Oct)
- Vulnerability and habitat suitability changes of Acropora spp. due to the pressure of climate change (Indonesia) - Januar et al (2025)
- Whale shark strandings: Spatio-temporal patterns, trends, and oceanographic drivers (Indonesia) - Putra et al (2025)
Declining phytoplankton under a warming climate (2025) Hong et al
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Global coral bleaching events (1998-2025) [ABC Australia]
Macroalgal-Coral Interactions (2025) Vieira et al
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Caribbean (1970-2020) Alvarez-Filip (2025)
Climate Change Science ▼
- 2025 State of the Climate Report: a planet on the brink - Ripple et al (2025)
- AMOC: Causal mechanisms of subpolar gyre variability in CMIP6 models - Falkena et al (2025)
- AMOC: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation - by Stefan Rahmstorf (RealClimate, 12 Oct)
- Antarctic meltwater alters future projections of climate and sea level - Sadai et al (2025)
- Atmospheric implications of ocean–atmosphere physicochemical interactions - Wang & Gligorovski (2025)
- Climate Refugia Could Disappear From Australia’s Marine Protected Areas by 2040 - Pidd et al (2025)
- Coral bleaching projections for the Great Barrier Reef throughout the 21st century - DeCarlo & Whitaker (2025)
- Detection of Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Extremes: Low Frequency Variability and Climate Change - Serva et al (2025)
- Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Fanning & Raworth (2025)
- Electrifying coralline algae to regenerate beaches and eroding islands against climate change - by Thomas Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance (2025)
- Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation - Loeb et al (2025)
- Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - Stuecker et al (2025)
- Global tipping point threshold reached for world’s coral reefs - by Peter de Kruijff (ABC, 12 Oct)
- Global Tipping Points Report 2025 - 160 authors, 23 countries
- Global tipping points: Coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ as first climate tipping point is reached - by Graham Readfearn (Guardian, 13 Oct)
- Hybrid Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Climate Change Adaptation - David et al (2025)
- Increased Shortwave Radiation Dampens Summertime SST Tendency in Mid-Latitude Oceans Under Future Warming Scenarios - Tian & Zhang (2025)
- Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate - Robinson et al (2025)
- Inevitable global coral reef decline under climate change-induced thermal stresses - Zeng et al (2025)
- Intensification of marine heatwaves and their climate drivers in the Arabian Gulf - Paradan et al (2025)
- Inter-basin contrast in the Southern Ocean warming - Song et al (2025)
- Leading dynamical processes of global marine heatwaves in an ocean state estimate - Sala et al (2025)
- Long-term thermal history drives heatwave tolerance in key reef calcifiers (not short-term exposure to different variability) - Krieger et al (2025) preprint
- Mapping the safe operating space of marine ecosystems under contrasting emission pathways - Bourgeois et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Bif et al (2025) - MBARI: press release - and - blogpost (Bif, 6 Oct)
- Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability (SE China) - Lin et al (2025)
- Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records - by Zeke Hausfather (6 Oct)
- Numerical modelling of the 1 July 2022 flooding event (SW Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives): Implications for the future - Masselink et al (2025)
- Phytoplankton Decline: weakened planetary capacity to absorb C02 - by Bob Berwyn (inside climate news, 17 Oct) - 'Oceans Lose Luster'
- Phytoplankton: Declining ocean greenness and blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate - Hong et al (2025)
- Rapid emissions cuts would avoid 64cm of ‘locked in’ sea level rise by 2300 - by Ayesha Tandon (carbonbrief, 24 Oct) - paper by Nauels et al
- Recent European marine heatwaves are unprecedented but not unexpected - Atkins et al (2025)
- Reconciling urgency and restraint in the coral climate crisis: A philosophy of practice - Streit et al (2025)
- Reconstructing sea level rise from global 945 tide gauges since 1900 - Mu et al (2025)
- Regional ocean biogeochemical modeling challenges for predicting the effectiveness of marine carbon dioxide removal - Ward et al (2025)
- Sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades - Nauels et al (2025)
- Southern Ocean freshening stalls deep ocean CO2 release in a changing climate - Olivier & Haumann (2025)
- Southern Ocean Heat “Burp” in a Cooling World - Frenger et al (2025)
- Statistical Features of a Time-Averaged Global State Estimate: Implications for Sea Level and Heat Content Change - Carl Wunsch (2025)
- The effects of climate change on coral fecundity (of Acropora aspera) in the Great Barrier Reef [PDF] - Morane (2025) MPhil
- Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations - Loriani et al (2025) preprint
- Unprecedented Carbon Accumulation in the Indian Ocean During 2016–2017 - Zhang et al (2025)
- Whale and Dolphin Migrations Disrupted by Climate Change - by Teresa Tomassoni (insideclimatenews, 24 Oct) - Migratory Species and Climate Change Expert Workshop Report 2025 (PDF)
Factors in global mean temperatures 2023-24 Ospina et al (2025) Ten New Insights in Climate Science
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Reconstructing sea level rise from global 945 tide gauges since 1900 (2025) Mu et al [4. CMIP6 models]
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Reconstructing sea level rise from global 945 tide gauges since 1900 (2025) Mu et al [9. GMSL averages]
Earth Tipping Points (GTP 2025) reefs
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Global SST Trends with gyres [@PGDynes]
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Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- 🔥 Global manta and devil ray population declines: Closing policy and management gaps to reduce fisheries mortality - Laglbauer et al (2025)
- 🔥 Review of Coral Taxonomy, Evolution and Diversity - Veron et al (2025) - major new 40k-word illustrated study
- A Stochastic Method for Predicting Recovery of Coral Reefs - Casas & Bernido (2025)
- Accessible AI Enhances Monitoring of Coral Seeding Devices in Reef Restoration - Stratford et al (2025)
- Adaptive Potential of Intracolonial Genetic Variability in Coral Populations - Afiq‐Rosli & Duarte (2025)
- Assisted recovery of tissue loss in massive corals (Orbicella faveolata): restoring damaged colonies - Tortolero-Langarica et al (2025)
- Balancing between evolutionary rescue and extinction: The adaptive potential of reef-building corals in a warming world - by Liam Lachs (science.org, 13 Nov)
- Characterizing the threats of chemical contaminants to Caribbean Acropora corals [PDF] - Muller et al (2025) NOAA
- Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial-Refugia Hypothesis - Ferris et al (2025)
- Coral larval metamorphosis, but not attachment, is influenced by high natural light intensity - dela Cruz et al (2025) preprint
- Coral Recruitment and Survival in a Remote Maldivian Atoll (Huvadhoo) 11 Years Apart - Oprandi et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration and adaptation: How do the public perceive the risks & benefits? (Australia) - Demeter et al (2025)
- Coral reefs as potential climate refugia following the 2024 mass bleaching event (Mahafaly Seascape, Madagascar) - Randrianarivo et al (2025)
- Coral reefs in the Mahafaly Seascape (SW Madagascar) as potential climate refugia following the 2024 mass bleaching event - Randrianarivo et al (2025)
- Corallivorous Fish Have Reduced Population Sizes and Altered Foraging Behaviour on a Recently Restored Coral Reef (Indonesia) - Lamont et al (2025) Mars Project
- Deep diving behaviour in oceanic manta rays and its potential function - Beale et al (2025)
- Disruption of the sea turtle magnetic map sense by a magnetic pulse - Mackiewicz et al (2025) - how baby turtles navigate thousands of miles
- Does reef crest zone selection influence Acropora palmata fragment survival and growth? - Romero et al (2025)
- El Niño-driven phase shift to algal dominance on coral reefs: implications for urgent restoration (Isla del Caño, Costa Rica) - Palmer et al (2025)
- Elevated temperature modulates the effects of an Endozoicomonadaceae member on the coral holobiont - Zhang et al (2025) preprint - coral-associated bacteria serve as important indicators of coral health
- Emerging evidence for apical dominance in colonial branching Acropora corals - Re & Duarte (2025)
- Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Jung et al (2025) - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (5 Nov): Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic
- Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color - by Rick MacPherson (therevelator, 12 Nov)
- Groundwater spatial variability within an atoll island (Maldives) - Tobon-Velazquez et al (2025)
- Harnessing Solar Energy to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch - Senko et al (2025) - article, Mongabay (28 Nov): Solar-lights protect sea turtles from fishing nets (Mexico)
- Historic coral disturbance versus current coral restoration (Palmyra Atoll) - Clements et al (2025)
- Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation - Zhuang et al (2025)
- Impact of the 2023–2024 ENSO Event of the North Pacific Coral Reefs of Costa Rica - Alvarado et al (2025)
- Instability is not the only driver of rubble impacts on coral settlement and recruitment - Paewai-Huggins et al (2025) preprint
- Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree - Steenwyk & King - and - Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence - Mulhair & Redmond (2025)
- International trade regulations take a limited bite out of the shark fin trade - Cardeñosa et al (2025) - the world’s largest shark fin hub (Hong Kong)
- Low Genetic Diversity and Decreased Effective Population Sizes of Acropora hyacinthus Populations (S. China Sea) - Di et al (2025)
- Marine heatwave decimates fire coral populations in the Caribbean - Dell’Antonio et al (2025)
- Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects - Nynatten et al (2025)
- Marine reef soundscape monitoring with fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing - Ariff et al (2025)
- Molecular Responses to Thermally Variable Preconditioning for Acropora cervicornis & Pseudodiploria clivosa (Caribbean) - DeMerlis et al (2025)
- Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Noisy Coral Reefs - Vishnu et al (2025)
- Protection of coral reef fish delivers ecosystem-critical biocontrol of coral-eating starfish (GBR) - Condie et al (2025)
- Rapid heat stress assays predict survivors of coral bleaching - Naugle et al (2025) preprint
- Rapid self-recognition (MSR) ability in the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) - Sogawa et al (2025)
- Reef restoration shouldn’t just be about growing corals – but also bringing reefs to life - Boakes & Razak (The Conversation, 2 Nov) - Evaluating the success of coral reef restoration programs - Boakes et al (2025) paywalled
- Sea Turtles: Interaction Between Age and Individual Heterogeneity Shapes Breeding Probability - Glen et al (2025)
- Spatial variability in coral assemblages (NE & central Red Sea) - Pisapia et al (2025)
- Speciation across depth gradients in reef corals - Gómez-Corrales et al (2025)
- Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered Acropora coral species (Florida) - Muller et al (2025)
- Temporal Dynamics and Recovery Patterns of Reef Benthic Communities in the Maldives Following a Mass Global Bleaching Event - Germani et al (2025)
- Ten years of coral reef benthic changes in the Central Mexican Pacific - Sotelo-Casas et al (2025)
- The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages - Mattos et al (2025)
- Thermal refugia support the long-term survival and growth of giant coral colonies - Stronaa & Montanob (2025)
- Thermal tolerance is associated with enhanced growth and recovery in the reef-building coral Montipora capitata [PDF] - Walker et al (2025)
- Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats - VanCompernolle et al (2025)
- Wave energy and other environmental drivers as predictors of seeded-coral performance (GBR) - Jurriaans et al (2025)
Evaluating the success of coral reef restoration programs - Boakes et al (2025) guide
Evaluating the success of coral reef restoration programs - Boakes et al (2025) A
Evaluating the success of coral reef restoration programs - Boakes et al (2025) B
Climate Change Science ▼
- A machine learning-based evidence map of ocean-related options for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Veytia et al (2025)
- A New Framework to Explore High-End Sea Level Rise for the UK: Updating H++ - weeks et al (2025)
- A rapidly closing window for coral persistence under global warming - Bozec et al (2025) - Graham Readfearn (Guardian, 5 Nov): ‘Grim future’ for GBR unless global heating kept to 2C
- Biogeographic Changes in a High Latitude Marine Fish Community: Short-Time Reversals in Response to Climate Variation - Ellingsen et al (2025)
- Climate model (ACCESS-AM2) underestimates aerosol concentration in the Southern Ocean - Fiddes et al (2025)
- Differential responses of corals to nutrient stoichiometry under heat stress (Montipora digitata, Xenia umbellata) - Mezger et al (2025)
- Evolving Southern Ocean overturning in warming climates - Zhu & Liu (2025)
- Increasing Frequency of Very Severe Cyclonic Storms Over the Northern Indian Ocean Driven by Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Forcing - Cao et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves deeply alter marine food web structure and function - de Luzinais et al (2025)
- New climate pledges only slightly lower dangerous global warming projections - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025
- Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years - Tan et al (2025)
- Ocean acidification: Global perspectives and India’s path forward - Vysakh et al (2025)
- Progressive changes in coral reef communities with increasing ocean acidification - Noonan et al (2025)
- State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 - International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) Sweden (6 Nov)
Microscopy : Expanding the world of marine microbes (eukaryotes)
Ocean Acidification Observed - Findlay et al (2025)
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NOAA ERSST Monthly Anomalies (1854.01-2025.10) [@IBergwiesel]
Climate Refugia Could Disappear From Australia's Marine Protected Areas by 2040 - Pidd et al (2025)
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State of the Climate Report 2025 [@PCarterClimate]
UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025 (total GHG)
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Global manta and devil ray population declines (2025) Laglbauer et al [MantaTrust.org] (1)
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Global manta and devil ray population declines (2025) Laglbauer et al [MantaTrust.org] (2)
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Global manta and devil ray population declines (2025) Laglbauer et al [MantaTrust.org] (3)
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Global manta and devil ray population declines (2025) Laglbauer et al [MantaTrust.org] (4)
Global manta and devil ray population declines (2025) Laglbauer et al [MantaTrust.org] (5)
Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- 🔥 National Sea Turtle Research Standard Methods Manual (NOAA) - McMichael et al (2025)
- A staged and layered approach to restoring turbid nearshore coral reefs - Page et al (2025)
- Abundance of microplastics in coastal area surface water at Tok Bali, Kelantan. - Ismail et al (2025)
- Biological traits of corals under electro-mineral accretion at a coral restoration site in Indonesia - Andrew C F Taylor (2025)
- Coral Diseases: Diversity and Prevalence in the Nearshore Regions of the Northern South China Sea - Tu et al (2025)
- Coral Larval Box “CoLaB”: a novel low-cost method for delivering competent coral larvae onto degraded reefs for restoration - dela Cruz et al (2025)
- Coral Reefs in the Indonesian Seas Threatened by Heat and Cold Stress - Watanabe et al (2025)
- Coral relocation supports survival and growth in an urban reef of the Maldives (Villimalé) - Pancrazi et al (2025) preprint
- Coral symbionts: Microplastic-mediated enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – toxic effects - He et al (2025)
- Coral Venom and Toxins as Protection Against Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Attack - Gorman et al (2025)
- Cryptic Diversity and Genetic Differentiation of Mesophotic Hydroids (SW Indian Ocean) - Ory et al (2025)
- Decadal changes in the fish assemblage structure and function within an insular coral community - Alba-Guzmán et al (2025)
- Ecological Contributions of an Active Coral Restoration Effort (Indo-Pacific) - Malkamäki et al (2025)
- Ectosymbiont community shifts driven by partial mortality in Pocillopora coral colonies - Petrochenko et al (2025)
- Enhancing Coral Reef Restoration through Biomimetic 3D-Printed Structures: A BACI-Based Longitudinal Assessment - Wahyuni et al (2025)
- Exploring co-culture systems: the use of microherbivore grazing in coral propagation [PDF] - by Bibi Haring (MSc thesis)
- Feeding effect on reducing reactive oxygen species in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis - Higa et al (2025)
- Food provisioning gains from rebuilding the world’s coral reef fish stocks - Zamborain-Mason et al (2025) - article (Smithsonian, 29 Dec) - Fishing for food security
- Future Sea Surface Temperature as a Key Driver of Antarctic Warming - Zhang et al (2025)
- Global floating algae blooms are expanding - Qi et al (2025)
- Impacts of climate change-induced large-scale disturbances on coral reef connectivity and recovery (GBR) [PDF] - Mandy Wing Man Cheung (PhD thesis)
- Insights from multispecies coral seeding deployments on turbid nearshore reefs (GBR) - Page et al (2025) preprint
- Interaction strength and harvest intensity mediate predator–prey dynamics on coral reefs - Rahnke et al (2025)
- Lack of Consistent Diurnal Trends in Acoustic Metrics from Restored Coral Reefs (Caribbean) - Velázquez-Alvarado et al (2025)
- Long lives and high invariant reproductive costs: why do sea turtles not nest every year? - Hays & Laloë (2025)
- Mangrove expansion and eco-tourism secures ecosystem services under sea-level rise - Stamoulis et al (2025)
- Manta and devil ray courtship and mating: A review - Carpenter et al (2025)
- Marine Turtle Nests: Wrong Assumptions of Climate Change Effects (Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination) - Marc Girondot (2025) - and video summary by the author
- Mesophotic sponge assemblages in a region undergoing climate change stressors - Donald & Battershill (2025)
- Ocean Travellers: Safeguarding Critical Habitats For Migratory Sharks And Rays - Jabado et al (2025) - excellent report [PDF 120MB] - IUCN article: Critical habitats for migratory sharks and rays
- Past thermal history and heat stress shape patterns of coral-algal symbioses in massive Porites - Kraemer (2025) preprint
- Pathological drivers of coral diseases across the Arabian Peninsula - Work et al (2025)
- Persistent Geographic Patterns of Coral Recruitment in Hawaiʻi - Asner et al (2025)
- Pier pressure: 23 years of incidental sea turtle captures at recreational fishing piers (Florida) - Brannum et al (2025)
- Plastic is not fantastic: drivers and solutions to mangrove plastic pollution in Cebu, Philippines - by Marie Touchon (thesis)
- Prevalence and Abundance of Coral-killing Sponges (Karimunjawa, Indonesia) [PDF] - Haryanti et al (2025)
- Propagation method and species drive survival patterns across reef zones in coral seeding (GBR) - Jurriaans et al (2025) preprint
- RAPS: A self-contained reef acoustic playback system for underwater soundscape enrichment, larval settlement - Mooney et al (2025)
- Recovery of Coral Reefs: Changes in Hard Coral Cover After a Tropical Storm (Pulau Bidong, Malaysia) - Qamarina et al (2025)
- Rubble stabilization on coral reefs: A decision support tool - Leung et al (2025)
- Scaling up coral reef restoration amid global ecological constraints - Mumby et al (2025)
- Shading strategies to mitigate heat and light stress in Acropora cervicornis amid intensifying climate challenges - Ruiz-Diaz et al (2025)
- Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970 – 2024 - Wicquart et al (2025) - article (Guardian, 9 Dec): Caribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980
- Stony coral tissue loss disease : Genotype & symbionts (not environment) influence susceptibility in restoration - Eaton et al (2025)
- Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Results in Persistent Microbial-Level Disturbances on Coral Reef Ecosystems - Rosales et al (2025)
- Stress-Tolerant Coral Faces Bioerosion: Sponge Colonization Under Mass Bleaching - Oliveira et al (2025) preprint
- Summer temperature maxima already challenge thermal capacities of coral (Persian/Arabian Gulf) - Alderdice et al (2025)
- Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals - Wilson & Edmunds (2025)
- Temperature-associated gametogenesis and spawning timing in Porites cylindrica - Inoha et al (2025)
- Thermal tolerance of coral species: Contrasting temperature-induced gene network rewiring and isoform switching - Scucchia et al (2025) preprint
- Tubastraea coccinea (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is the globally dispersed species of Sun Coral - Portella et al (2025) preprint
- Wave height reduction by coral growth: increased wave heights owing to sea-level rise and tropical cyclones by 2100 (Japan) - Hongo et al (2025)
Climate Change Science ▼
- 2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say - by Alexa St. John (phys.org, 30 Dec)
- Acropora millepora’s microbiome is predicted by algal symbionts, host genetics, and environment - Primov et al (2025) preprint
- Climate change risks to the marine and coastal environment of Sri Lanka - Lincoln et al (2025)
- Coastal Management in the Maldives: A Fight Against the Rising Sea - by Tom McAndrew (4 Dec 2025)
- Marine Benthic Carbon in a Changing World - Schultz et al (2025)
- Minor contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the ocean - Bayer et al (2025) - article (ucsb, 01 Dec): The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers
- Politicians in South-East Asia ignore climate change at their own political peril - by Karishma Vyas (ABC, 6 Dec)
- Sea level rise impact modelling for integrated assessment models (FRISIAv1.0) - Ramme et al (2025)
- Sea levels: the weirdest changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan - by Chris Mooney & Yumi Asada (CNN, 22 Dec)
- Sea-surface temperature extremes during the last interglacial (Maldives cf Bahamas) - Cannings et al (2025) preprint
- Southern Ocean Net Primary Production in a Changing Climate - Tagliabue et al (2025)
- SST Future Projections Utilising CMIP6 GCM Ensembles (Caribbean) - Hibbert et al (2025)
- Strengthening Local Climate Governance and Action in Male’ City, Maldives - Chaudhuri et al (2025)
- The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy – and needs more attention - by Dyna Rochmyaningsih (Nature, 05 Dec)
- Warming Trend in the Western Indian Ocean Driven by Oceanic Transport - Joseph et al (2025)
Ocean state changes over 60 years (2025) Tan et al
Flow of carbon and energy in scleractinian corals (2025) Lanniello et al
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GHG Emissions (1990-2035 projections) UN [@simonstiell, @unfccc]
12000 years of Global temperatures - Ripple et al (2025)
Mangrove dieback triggers metal mobilization – Sreelekshmi et al (2025)
In the Maldives in March 2020, a large-scale dieback of Bruguiera cylindrica occurred. Mangrove ecosystems act as natural biofilters that trap and accumulate trace metals from surrounding sediments. But climate change-induced stressors (sea level rise, salinity fluctuations) disrupt their regulatory capacity. Mangrove mortality weakens the sedimentary sink function and exports toxic metals to adjacent marine systems. Island nations need integrated strategies to restore mangrove resilience.