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- Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms - Hansen et al (2016) Atmos Chem Phys - evidence that 2°C global warming could be dangerous
- A Limited Role for Unforced Internal Variability in Twentieth-Century Warming - Haustein et al (2019) J. Climate
- Shifting seasonality of cyclones (Bay of Bengal, India) - Sil et al (2021) Sci Rep
- ENSO / IOD influence on cyclogenesis (Bay of Bengal, India) - Roose et al (2022) Clim Atmos Sci
- How Can We Keep Global Warming Below 1.5C ? - WashPo: We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope...
- Aerosol demasking enhances climate warming over India & Maldives - Nair et al (2023) Clim Atmos Sci
- Acidification of surface waters: decreased biogenic calcification - Pallacks et al (2023) Commun Earth Environ - Anthropogenic C02 drives ocean acidification, warming and enhanced stratification
- 🔥 CarbonBrief: State of the Climate: 2023
- 🔥 Berkeley Earth: Global Temperature Report for 2023
- NATURE: Robust acceleration of Earth system heating over six decades
- Twitter: Super El Nino prediction for 2024
- AXIOS: Global temperatures near the 1.5-degree target in 2023
- BBC: 2023 confirmed as world’s hottest year on record
- NASA Analysis Confirms 2023 as Warmest Year on Record
- NATURE: Oceans break heat records five years in a row
- APCC/APEC: Climate Outlook (Feb-July 2024)
- “I wasn’t worried about climate change. Now I am” – Dr Sabine Hossenfelder
- Fishing: ‘Bottom Trawling’ Releases CO2
- CO2 emissions and ocean acidification from bottom-trawling
- Ocean Heat Transport and Surface Heat Fluxes: Driving Arctic Ocean Warming and Sea Ice Decline
- Projected amplification of summer marine heatwaves in a warming Northeast Pacific Ocean
- Multiyear prediction: marine habitat shifts constrained by ocean temperature and dissolved oxygen
- Deep-Ocean Warming: Coastal Sea Level Trends (Mexico)
- Historical and future maximum sea surface temperatures
- Climate Change: Migration & Sustainability of Atoll Islands [PDF] - Jarillo et al (2024)
- AMOC: Atlantic headed for a tipping point − when melting glaciers shut down Gulf Stream, we will see extreme climate change in decades.
- El Niño: future clues are preserved in ancient reefs
- Ocean circulation pathways reshape the Indian Ocean oxygen minimum zone with warming
- Atmosphere and ocean energy transport in extreme warming scenarios
- AMOC: Atlantic circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point
- AMOC: Hysteresis in New Global Climate Model
- NOAA Coral Reef Watch extends alert scale following extreme coral heat stress in 2023
- Climate adaptation (Maldives): long-term response of coral islands to sea level rise
- FT: Critical 1.5C threshold breached (Global SSTs reach record highs)
- Copernicus C3S Seasonal forecast EU (10-Feb) - El Niño has peaked; by mid-year, La Niña more likely.
- IAPv4 Ocean Temperature and Ocean Heat - confirmation of warming acceleration (Cheng et al 2024)
- AMOC: Physics-based early warning shows tipping course
- YALE: How to speak with friends about environmental issues - biodiversity loss & climate change. Also: prebunk, not debunk.
- Sea Surface Temp Visualization (new tool) - daily worldwide SST datasets downloaded & visualized (daily world map, annual graph)
- Copernicus Interactive Climate Tools - C3S Atlas - and - Pulse
- February 2024 ENSO Outlook - All along the La Niña WATCH-tower
- Indian Ocean Seasonal SST in CMIP6 Models - understanding biases
- Multi-Century Projections of Sea Level Rise
- Ocean mass observations & sea level rise - increase by ice wastage & water management.
- Socioeconomic Ramifications of Sea Level Rise in the Maldives : A Holistic Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation Strategies
- Breeding Corals Resilient to Global Warming - K.M. Quigley [Annual Review]
- 🔥 Berkeley Earth: January 2024 Updates - published 27 Feb 2024
- 🔥 Copernicus: Feb 2024 was warmest on record - SST 21.06°C, higher than previous record of 20.98°C (Aug-23).
- Arctic Ocean Projections: ice-free summers - major changes expected within a decade.
- Carbon sequestration as a climate ‘solution’
- Sea Levels & Increased Wave Energy - American Samoa
- Historical Sea Level Change in Indo-Pacific
- Climate scientist: ‘If you knew what I know, you’d be terrified too’
- The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone - transformation of our seas is “effectively permanent” [archive link]
- EEA Report No 1/2024 (11 March) - EU climate impacts & risks (IPCC, Copernicus, +)
- SST Pattern Effects - Climate models are unable to reproduce recent observed warming; major uncertainties in future projections.
- 🔥CODE BLUE: OUR OCEANS IN CRISIS - excellent illustrated report by Australia's Climate Council [PDF]
- 365 Days of Record Ocean Temperatures (14 Mar 2024)
- Longer-Term Climate Change: Ocean Temperature and Sea Ice Extremes
- AMOC: Are we breaking the Atlantic Ocean? (Vox)
- Antarctic sea ice: Growing fears of an alarming shift
- Is the record heat now accelerating?
- Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
- WMO: State of the Global Climate 2023 - major report - PDF
- 🔥 Berkeley Earth: February 2024 Temperature Update
- 🔥 IPCC Climate Change Explainer: (1) Science - four infographics -
(2) Mitigation (3) Adaptation (4) Synthesis
- Climate Change: Evolutionary dynamics of island shorelines [PDF]
- SST from Ocean Modelling: coral heat stress predictions (Hawaii)
- Sea Level Rise and Storm Tide Alter Coastal Water Levels : How and Why?
- Global Ocean Mass Increase: Tide Gauges + Climate Models
- Fighting Misinformation - Nadia M. Brashier (2024)
- NOAA: Global climate report Feb 24 - pub 21 March - full report
- Viability and risks: marine cloud brightening
- FT: World is warming faster than scientists expected
- Sea Level Spike Due to El Niño (NASA) - Global average sea level rose by 0.76cm from 2022-23 - Vital Signs
- SST research: Clear evidence of human-caused climate change
- How the climate crisis affects our brains
- AMOC: intermediate tipping of Atlantic Ocean circulation
- Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’
- Antarctic sea ice near historic lows
- Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation - Mathis et al (2024) Nat. Clim. Chang
- Earth at risk: Urgent call to end destruction for a sustainable future - Fletcher et al (2024) PNAS Nexus
- Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance - Hodnebrog et al (2024) Nature
- El Niño and SST: Indian Ocean (>1675) - Leupold et al (2021) Clim. Past - "ENSO is not the main driver of central Indian Ocean warming"
- 🔥 Ocean Heat Content in 2023 - Rate of ocean warming could be 39% higher than climate scenarios (CERES vs SSP ranges) - Cheng et al (2024) Nat Rev Earth Environ
- Sensitivity of Ocean Heat Content to Instrumental Platforms - Lijung Cheng (2024)
- Antarctic: ‘Mind-boggling’ Temperatures Jump +38.5C
- Why ocean temperatures keep smashing records
- Factcheck: the recent acceleration in global warming is what scientists expect
- 🔥 AMOC: Is the Atlantic Approaching a Tipping Point? - Prof Stefan Rahmstorf (10 Apr 24)
- NASA: PACE Ocean Data Tools & Color Images - now available to the public
- Heatwaves and extreme sea levels increasing - Zhou & Wang (2024)
- Substantial cooling effect from aerosol-induced increase in tropical marine cloud cover - Chen et al (2024) Nat Geosci
- Ocean Warming: Intensification of Tropical Cyclones (Bay of Bengal, India) Ray et al (2024)
- Responses of marine trophic levels to the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming - Hu et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Surface Ocean CO2 and Air-Sea Fluxes - Chau et al (2024)
- Doughnut Economics: A good life for all *is* possible within planetary boundaries - Schlesier et al (2024)
- Regional SST: global warming (CMIP6) - Milovac et al (2024) Clim Dyn
- The Indian Ocean and its Role in the Global Climate System - Ed: Ummenhofer & Hood, 1st Edition (April 2024) eBook ISBN: 9780128232866
- Copernicus: Record Temperatures for April 2024
- Record Ocean Heat: Hurricanes, Heatwaves, Rising Seas - our oceans have soaked up >90% of the heat trapped in the Earth's atmosphere - BBC (9 May)
- Sea-level rise: temperature to mass control (Caribbean) - Maitland et al (2024) Sci Rep
- 2023 Record Marine Heat Waves: coral reef bleaching, SST extremes - Goreau & Hayes (2023) Oxford Open Climate Change
- Bleaching of coral reefs: severe ocean circulation changes
- 🔥 Atlas of Climate Change - Přibyla et al (2024 update) 'Facts On Climate'
- Indicators of Global Climate Change [ESSDD] - Forster et al (05.2024 preprint) Earth Syst Sci (Copernicus)
- Record CO2 Increase in World’s Atmosphere
- Human-induced intensified seasonal cycle of sea surface temperature - Liu et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Storm Surges and Extreme Sea Levels - Bernier et al (2024)
- Berkeley Earth: April 2024 Updates - published 15 May
- La Niña – an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon
- 🔥 Temperature Rise May Soon Accelerate More - concise but comprehensive illustrated round-up (Sam Carana, 13 May)
- Global coral bleaching: How does 2023-24 compare to past events? - coral heat stress maps (NOAA)
- Antarctica: Fundamental Climate Shifts
- Antarctica: seawater intrusions beneath Thwaites Glacier - Rignot et al (2024) PNAS - implications for sea level rise
- Stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides - Opel et al (2024) Commun Earth Environ
- Ocean thermal forcing: ice discharge from Greenland’s peripheral tidewater glaciers (2000–2021) - Möller et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Ocean Mesoscale Variability in Air-Sea CO2 Exchange - Guo & Timmermans (2024)
- Regional effects of ocean temperature rise due to climate change - Octopus maya ecophysiology - Escamilla-Aké et al (2024) Reg Environ Change
- Sea surface biofilm: role in regulating Earth’s climate - Kumari et al (2024) Front. Environ. Sci.
- A Short History of Climate Change on Planet Earth - James E. Potzick (2022)
- 🔥 Atlantic: Record-breaking heat
- Southern Ocean phytoplankton under climate change - Xue et al (2024) Biogeosciences
- Southern Ocean Resource Stress in a Changing Climate
- Column-Compound Extremes in the Global Ocean - Wong et al (2024) AGU - marine organisms unable to adapt
- Heatwave attribution based on reliable operational weather forecasts - Leach et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Column-Compound Threats: extreme heat, oxygen loss, acidification
- Have feedbacks taken over? - one full year of extremely high global temperature anomalies
- Copernicus: record air & ocean temperatures continue - 6 June
- Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: climate system and human influence - Forster et al (2024) Earth Syst. Sci. Data (Copernicus)
- Tracking the unprecedented impact of humans on the climate
- Sea level rise: regime-switch error-correction model Fu & Fu (2024)
- Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD): Variability reduction despite persistent global warming - Wang et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD): Decreased variability under prolonged greenhouse warming Kim et al (2024) Nat Commun
- What record global heat means for breaching 1.5C - Zeke Hausfather
- Full-Depth Steric Sea Level Change Using Deep Argo (SW Pacific) Lele & Purkey (2024)
- Climate Forcing: SST-Surface Heat Flux Gu & Zhengyu (2024)
- Corals Evidence: Underestimation of 20th Century Warming (E.Pacific) Han et al (2024)
- Ocean biogeochemical change under human-made climatic forcing (warming, acidification, deoxygenation) Heinze et al (2023-24) Biogeosciences [pre-print]
- Ice-sheets: Tipping point in grounding-zone melting due to ocean water intrusion - Bradley & Hewitt (2024) Nat. Geosci.
- Ice sheets: The critical role of ‘grounding zones’ - Bradley & Freer (British Antarctic Survey)
- Ocean temperature database: CODC-v1 (1940–2023) - Zhang et al (2024)
- Using Ocean Ambient Sound to Measure Local Integrated Deep Ocean Temperature - Ragland et al (2024)
- Coastal Resilience: Rising Seas, Disruptive Tides, Risks to Infrastructure - Dahl et al (2024) Union of Concerned Scientists
- Maldives: The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish - photo essay by Raymond Zhong & Jason Gulley (New York Times)
- CO₂ puts heavier stamp on temperature than previously thought - Witkowski et al (2024) Nat Commun. Records reveal a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene.
- NOAA’s ENSO update 2024-25 - 70% chance of La Niña developing Aug–Oct = 0.5°C cooler
- GBR Coral Bleaching Risk: MJO & ENSO Shaping Extreme Warming Patterns - Gregory et al (2024)
- Southern Ocean as the climate’s freight train - Chamberlain et al (2024)
- Indian Ocean Dipole: impacts on monsoon rainfall (June-Nov) - Karrevula et al (2024) Atmospheric Research
- Climate research on big ocean islands (incl Maldives) - Aucan et al (2024) Nat. Clim. Chang.
- Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD): Local feedback/ENSO variability & synchronization - Park et al (2024) Commun Earth Environ
- 🔥 Berkeley Earth: June 2024 Temperature Update - warmest ever June ocean avg at +1.15°C
- New tipping point: Loss of oxygen in bodies of water - Rose et al (2024) Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary
- Ocean iron cycle feedbacks decouple atmospheric CO2 - Lauderdale (2024) Nat Commun - MIT: New findings on ocean’s role storing carbon
- 2024 likely to be warmest year on record - Zeke Hausfather
- Southern Ocean Asymmetries: global heat and carbon uptake - Williams et al (2024) Nat. Clim. Chang.
- Deep ocean warming-induced El Niño changes - Kim et al (2024)
- Carbon pump at depth: ocean simulations - Wang et al (2024) Commun Earth Environ
- Southern Ocean: strong CO2 uptake (observational evidence) - Yuanxu Dong et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Southern Ocean: carbon sink overestimated - Zhong et al (2024) Commun Earth Environ
- Warming SST: lower shorebird migratory fuel loads - Lagassé & Breed (2024) R. Soc. Open Sci.
- Sea-level changes (rises) and their causes >1900 - Dangendorf et al (2024)
- Sea Level Projections: Ocean-Shelf Dynamics - Jevrejeva et al (2024)
- Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) in a warming world - Wang et al (2024) Nat Rev Earth Environ
- Deep ocean under global warming: more quiescent - Wang et al (2024) Nat. Clim. Chang.
- AMOC: Warning of a forthcoming collapse - Ditlevsen & Ditlevsen (2024) Nat Commun
- AMOC: How Soon Might It Break? P & S Ditlevsen, WIRED (25 Jul 24)
- Climate Change Questions? Start Here! - SueEllen Campbell (Yale Climate)
- Climate Science, Risk & Solutions - Prof Kerry Emanuel, Atmospheric Science, MIT - excellent interactive guide, audio, video, Q&A
- Ocean temperature & ocean heat content (IAPv4) - Cheng et al (2024)
- Climatic controls on metabolic constraints in the ocean - Mongwe et al (2024) Biogeosciences
- Global sea levels: influence of mantle viscosity (Antarctica) - Gomez et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- The ocean losing its breath under heatwaves - Li et al (2024) - low-oxygen extreme events in surface ocean (0–10 m)
- Coastal High Water Levels: Sea Level, Tide, Surge - Palmer et al (2024) Geophysical Research
- Salinity Response to Global Warming - Douville & Cheng (2024)
- Phytoplankton abundance and SST (Brazil) - Silveira Bueno (2024) Ecology and Evolution
- Ocean Carbon Budget: diagnosis - Mackay et al (2024)
- Ocean alkalinity using aqueous hydroxides - Ringham et al (2024)
- Sea level rise, explained (USA) - Samantha Harrington, Yale Climate
- NOAA: Earth’s hottest month on record (July 2024) - Ocean-only temp was second-warmest at 0.98°C, ending a streak of 15 consecutive monthly record highs (Apr 2023-Jun 2024).
- 2023 temperatures: steady global warming & internal SST variability - Samset et al (2024)
- Surging Seas in a Warming World (UN) - latest science on sea-level rise and projected impacts
- State of the Climate in 2023 - American Meteorological Society (8 Aug)
- The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance - Raymond et al (2020) Sci. Adv.
- Deadly Heat Limits on Humans: may be much lower than thought - ABC News (02 Sept) When heat turns deadly (world-first study)
- Human-induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems - Röthig et al (2023)
- Indian Ocean: Surface ocean-lower atmospheric processes - Kumar et al (2024)
- La Niña Impact on Negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) Under Global Warming - Zu et al (2024) Geophysical Research
- Berkeley Earth: July 2024 Temperature Update - 2024 is very likely to be the warmest year on record.
- 2024’s Unusually Persistent Warmth - diverging from past El Ninos - Zeke Hausfather
- NASA: Summer 2024 Hottest to Date - Sally Younger (11 Sept)
- El Niños & Global Temperatures - @LeonSimons8 & @MakikoSato6 (12 Sept)
- Global warming in the pipeline - Hansen, Sato, Simons et al (2023) Oxford Open Climate Change
- What’s Really Warming The World? - Roston & Migliozzi (2015) Bloomberg animated infographics
- SST warming: the extreme East Asian monsoon precipitation (2020) Mun et al (2024) Weather and Climate Extremes
- Trend and interannual variability of summer marine heatwaves in the tropical Indian ocean: Patterns, mixed layer heat budget, and seasonal prediction - Wang et al (2024) Weather and Climate Extremes
- Black Sea: SST and extreme precipitation in NE Turkiye - Baltaci & Turk (2024) International Journal of Climatology
- Nutrient decline (upper-ocean) in a warming climate - Sun et al (2024)
- Deoxygenation: Slower and Warmer Oceans - Pasquier et al (2024) Journal of Geophysical Research
- Marine Heatwaves Around Coral Reef Regions (South China Sea) - Lyu (2024) Journal of Geophysical Research
- Carbon dioxide reductions and future warming: Climate experts’ perceptions - Wynes et al (2024) Commun Earth Environ
- 🔥 IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change (2023)
- Cloud-SST Feedback Amplifies Multi-Decadal SST (Pacific) - Espinosa & Zelinka (2024)
- Climate adaptation tracking: addressing the gap (Caribbean Islands) - Laurent & Duvat (2024)
- Global Ocean Deep (>2000m): Refined Estimates & Warming Trends - Johnson & Purkey (2024)
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Wind & solar for mitigating climate change [PDF] - Havea et al (2024) pre-proof
- Coral Reef Protection Is Fundamental to Human Rights - Camp et al (2024) Environmental Change - article & interview (1 Oct)
- 🔥 The State of the Global Ocean - von Schuckmann et al (2024) - Ocean State Report (OSR8) Copernicus
- Constraining Regional Hydrological Sensitivity Over Tropical Oceans Jie He et al (2024)
- Constraining the trend in ocean CO2 sink (2000–2022) Mayot et al (2024)
- Coralline algal beds in the oceanic carbon cycle (“Pink power”)
- Human interactions with the oceans - Michael H. Depledge (2024)
- Risks of competing discourses of scientific responsibility in global ocean futures - Lawless et al (2024)
- AMOC: Nonstationarity Fingerprint on Sea Surface Temperature - Mackay et al (2024)
- Wet tropics inundation drove methane surge (2020–2022) - Zhen Qu et al (2024)
- 🔥 State of the Climate Report (2024): “Perilous times on planet Earth” - Ripple et al (2024) BioScience - Guardian article (8 Oct)
- WWF Living Planet Report (2024) - wildlife populations plummeted by 73% - 'Points of no return’ (Guardian, 10 Oct)
- Monsoon Zonal Winds Exacerbating Heatwaves (India) - Mondal et al (2024)
- Islands at the Brink – Country Brief Maldives [PDF] - Hafiz, Singh, Mohamed (2024)
- Fisheries: historical catch & mobility – adaptive capacity to ocean change - Selden et al (2024) - article: Creating a spatial map of the sea
- AMOC: Climate scientists warn Nordic ministers of changing Atlantic Ocean current - Reuters (21 Oct)
- Ocean anoxia in the Atlantic (Paleocene-Eocene) Yao et al (2024)
- Sea level rise: global rate doubled during the past three decades - Hamlington et al (2024)
- Sea-surface temperatures: Satellite-based time-series (>1980) - Embury et al (2024)
- Coastal fisheries: adaptations to increasing climate change (Japan) - Ilosvay et al (2024) - NIES article (25 Oct)
- Sea level rise and the evolution of aggression on islands [PDF] - Rijsdijk et al (2024) ISCIENCE pre-proof
- Reef-lined coasts: simulation of wave-runup - McCall et al (2024) Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.
- Coral reef communities under future ocean warming & acidification - Jury et al (2024)
- Coral carbonate budgets: ReefBudget & CoralNet - Pilly et al (2024)
- Renewable energy system: Ocean thermal converters (Maldives) - Keiner et al (2024)
- Marine heatwaves suppress ocean circulation (Alaska) - Rallu De Malibran et al (2024)
- Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake due to near-surface temperature gradients - Ford et al (2024)
- Salt marshes & sea-level rise: Vegetation traits & biogeomorphic complexity - Cornacchia et al (2024)
- Sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection to CO2 forcing - Park et al (2024)
- Navigating the Future (VI): Placing the Ocean within the wider Earth system - report by marineboard.eu
- AMOC projections: Atlantic overturning collapses after 2100 - Drijfhout et al (2025)
- AMOC: Estimates of a C21st Collapse - Smolders et al (2024)
- COP29: UNICEF’s Youth Track Climate Recommendations, Maldives [PDF]
- Mangrove dieback (Maldives): explained by sea-level rise and extreme IOD - Carruthers et al (2024) - article & video (12 Nov)
- ISASO2: Ocean dissolved oxygen change – trends & regional patterns - Kolodziejczyk et al (2024)
- Aerosol-Induced Changes in Atmospheric and Oceanic Heat Transports - Needham et al (2024)
- Plankton: foraminiferal acclimatization capacity is limited during future warming - Ying et al (2024) Nature - article: sea life struggles to survive global warming (bristol.ac, 13 Nov)
- Plankton: Migrating is not enough in a changing ocean - Chaabane et al (2024) Nature - article: Climate Change Threatens Ocean Plankton (mpic.de, 13 Nov)
- Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs - Colombi et al (2024)
- Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe - Peixoto et al (2024)
- AMOC: Weakening driven by subarctic freshening [PDF] - Menviel & Pontes (2024) - article: Meltwater & ocean circulation (18 Nov)
- Marine heatwaves: A global overview in a changing climate - Capotondi et al (2024)
- Shoreline response to waves and sea-level rise: scalable models - Vitousek et al (2024)
- Improved Sea Level Reconstruction (1900 to 2019) - Wang et al (2024)
- Global Climate-Driven Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll Dynamics - Venegas et al (2024)
- Indian cities: adapting to extreme heat (10 urban Heat Action Plans) - Singh et al (2024)
- Indian Ocean Dipole & El Niño – Projections [CMIP6] - Chung et al (2024)
- Climate crisis in charts: 2024 set new records - The Guardian (20 Nov)
- Low average shoreline change rate in 51 years (Seychelles) - Constance et al (2024) - sea levels, geomorphological sediment, island-building.
- Subdecadal Holocene Warm-Season Temperatures - Zander et al (2024)
- Chemical data in aquatic taxa across the tree of life - Doubleday et al (2024) - Historical environmental clues on climate change
- Light Limitation of Poleward Coral Reef Expansion During Past Warm Climates - Kruijt et al (2024)
- Progression of ocean interior acidification over the industrial era - Müller & Gruber (2024)
- Climate-Induced Saltwater Intrusion in 2100 - Adams et al (2024)
- Surface Ocean Changes: Anthropogenic Aerosols & Greenhouse Gases - Dong et al (2024)
- Southern Ocean Heat Content Increase - Hague et al (2024)
- Algae-Bacteria Interaction in Ocean Recalcitrant Carbon Sequestration - Zhao et al (2024)
- Plastics Treaty, UN: Why it matters for climate change - Carbon Brief (25 Nov)
- Fish: Effects of temperature on feeding and digestive processes - Volkoff & Rønnestad (2020)
- High SSTs were a prerequisite for development & expansion (GBR) - Petrick et al (2024)
... >700-thousand years ago
- Seagrasses provide essential coastal protection under climate change (Mediterranean) - Agulles et al (2024)
- Seagrass: Rapid sea level rise causes loss of meadows - Capistrant-Fossa & Dunton (2024)
- Thermal Priming on Global Coral Reefs - Li et al (2024) - “priming” exposure to heat stress reduces bleaching susceptibility during subsequent MHW
- Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: additionality problem [PDF] - Bach (2024)
- Coral reef communities may degrade and change but persist - Nancy Knowlton (2024)
- Albedo: Fewer low-altitude clouds may explain Earth’s warming - ABC News (06 Dec): Recent global temperature surge intensified by record-low planetary albedo (2024) Goessling et al
- ENSO updates: December 2024 (NOAA) - Emily Becker (12 Dec)
- Natural selection could determine whether Acropora corals persist under expected climate change - Lachs et al (2024)
- author article: Corals can adapt but not fast enough (Conversation, 29 Nov)
- Aerosols overtake greenhouse gases causing a warmer climate and more weather extremes - Wang et al (2023)
- 🔥 Ocean Heat Accumulation: recent acceleration by mode and intermediate waters - Li et al (2023)
- Marine heatwave response plans: emerging need (NSW, Australia) - Champion & Coleman (2024)
- Ecosystem adaptation: Community storylines (GBR) - Paxton et al (2024)
- Global upper ocean dissolved oxygen budget for constraining the biological carbon pump - Yamaguchi et al (2024)
- Ocean Carbon Flux Predictions: Statistical Models - Gooya et al (2024)
- Ocean acidification trends and carbonate system dynamics (N.Atlantic) - Curbelo-Hernández et al (2024)
- Marine Heatwaves: sea surface temperature and height - Hu et al (2024)
- Sea-Level Rise: Fusion of Probabilistic Projections - Grandey et al (2024)
- Sea surface temperature sensitivity under a carbon removal scenario: Strong El Niño and La Niña precipitation - Liu et al (2024)
- AMOC: Global ocean heat content and N.Atlantic heat transport (1993–2020) - Liu et al (2024)
- 🔥 Past and future ocean warming [PDF] - Cheng et al (2022)
- Faster ocean warming threatens richest areas of marine biodiversity [PDF] - Brown et al (2022)
- Coral diversity with climatic change: Complex multivariate model predictions - McClanahanet al (2024)
- Subsurface ocean temperature seasonality: Weakening over four decades - Liu et al (2024)
- La Niña mass coral bleaching event (2021/2022): soft coral Sarcophyton (Australia) - Borghi et al (2025)
- 🔥 State of the Climate: 2024 sets a new record as the first year above 1.5C - Zeke Hausfather (10 Jan)
- Indian Summer Monsoon: Shorter Duration in Projections - Cheng et al (2025) - more intense extreme rainfall events within a shorter season
- Summer Extreme Humid-Heat Events (China) and Tropical SST (1990s) - He & Chen (2025)
- 🔥 Copernicus: Global Climate 2024 - a second record-breaking year
- El Niño and SST Lead to Historically High Global Mean SST in 2023 - Jiang et al (2025)
- AMOC Atlantic overturning: no decline since 1960s - Terhaar et al (2025)
- 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit - BBC (10 Jan)
- 🔥 Berkeley Earth: Global Temperature Report for 2024 - by Robert Rohde
- Heat flux forecast to enter Arctic early Feb 2025 - Arctic News (25 Jan)
- Quantifying the acceleration of multidecadal global sea surface warming driven by Earth’s energy imbalance - Merchant et al (2025)
- Drivers of Mesozoic Neoselachian Success and Resilience - Staggl et al (2025) - article (30 Jan): Sharks and rays benefit from global warming - but not from CO2 in the Oceans
- Anthropogenic climate change doubled the frequency of compound drought and heatwaves in low-income regions - Zhang et al (2024)
- Coral bleaching and mortality overestimated in projections based on Degree Heating Months - Mason et al (2025)
- Climate change and tourism policymaking in the Pacific Islands - Becken & Loehr (2025)
- Observed declines in upper ocean phosphate-to-nitrate availability - Gerace et al (2025) - ocean nutrients are decreasing from ocean warming, with potentially severe impacts on global marine life
- 🔥 Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the UN and the Public Well-Informed? - James E. Hansen et al (2025)
- Tropical wind shear and wave-driven circulation uncertainties - Žagar et al (2025) - European Space Agency Aeolus mission
- 🔥 Record High Temperatures in the Ocean in 2024 - Cheng et al (2025)
- Hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists - Guardian (6 Feb)
- Coral reef thermal microclimates mapped from the International Space Station - Longenecker et al (2025)
- January 2025 was the warmest on record globally (despite emerging La Niña) - Copernicus (6 Feb)
- Ocean hypoxia: The science of climate change in the sea - Chan et al (2025)
- Sea level rise calculations: strongly dependent on ice sheet model resolution - Williams et al (2025)
- Sensitivity of the Energy Conversion Efficiency of Tropical Cyclones - Lai & Toumi (2025)
- Sea Surface Upward Longwave Radiation With Sea Spray Layer Effect - Jing et al (2025)
- Arctic land–ocean carbon cycle - Vonk et al (2025) - Amplified warming impacts Arctic biosphere, hydrosphere & cryosphere
- Arctic : Climate change decreases efficiency of ocean’s biological carbon pump - Oziel et al (2025)
- Surface ocean’s thermal inertia: multi-decadal increase [PDF] - Lee et al (2025) - New Scientist article (7 Feb): ocean is losing ability to store heat
- Maldives navigates shifting monsoons and weather extremes - Hassan Moosa, Maldives Independent (11 Feb)
- Sea-Level Fall and the Late Holocene Turn-Off of Coral Reef Growth - Feldman et al (2025)
- Surface ocean’s thermal inertia: Observed multi-decadal increase - Song et al (2025) preprint
- North Atlantic Ocean Warming 2023: Remarkable - Carton et al (2025) - record high SSTs caused by atmospheric heat flux (evaporative heat loss was abnormally low)
- Indian Summer Monsoon: Increasing Intensity and Frequency of Deep Convective Clouds - Antony et al (2025)
- Climate Models Struggle to Simulate Observed North Pacific Jet Trends - Patterson & O’Reilly et al (2025)
- Climate-driven shifts in Southern Ocean primary producers and biogeochemistry [CMIP6] - Fisher et al (2025)
- Forecasting the Ocean: 2025–2035 Decade of Ocean Science - National Academies Press (2025)
- NOAA fires 800 employees, with more possible - CNN (27 Feb)
- Recent Decline in Global Ocean Evaporation Due To Wind Stilling - Ma et al (2025)
- Climate change alters the Indian Ocean Dipole and weakens its North Atlantic teleconnection - Fereday et al (2025)
- Australian Monsoon influence on Indian Ocean interannual variability in a warming climate - Chen et al (2024)
- Climate Extremes (50 min video documentary) - and website
- Coral Reef Fishes Facing Extreme Thermal Variability: Aerobic Performance and Temperature Tolerance - Vaughan et al (2025) - Some fish adapt to rising temperatures
- Coral Adaptation to a Hot, Acidic, and Deoxygenated Extreme Habitat - Leiva et al (2025)
- Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected - Terhaar et al (2025)
- Ocean Heat Transport: Arctic Ocean Warming and Sea Ice Decline - Cheng et al (2025)
- Atoll island future habitability: climate change (inc Maldives) - Badillo-Interiano et al (2025)
- We need NOAA now more than ever - RealClimate
- Coastal seawater quality: Monitoring, modeling, and forecasting long-term changes due to climate change - Guan et al (2025)
- Ocean Temperature: Annual Cycle Changes in Vertical Structure - Shi et al (2025) - A Fingerprint of Human Influence on Climate
- Coral bleaching event (2020): linked to marine heatwaves (tropical Atlantic) - Rodrigues (2025)
- Mass coral bleaching: meteorological drivers during the 2022 La Niña (GBR) - Richards et al (2025)
- Marine heatwave drivers in coral bleaching regions (Red Sea) - Darmaraki et al (2025)
- 🔥 WMO State of the Global Climate 2024 - published 19 March 2025 - full PDF report
- Planktic foraminiferal changes in the western Mediterranean Anthropocene - Pallacks et al (2021)
- South Asia: The Impact of Climate Change on Conflict and Displacement - Dr. Mohammad Rais Khan (2025)
- Deep ocean cooling and freshening from Subpolar N. Atlantic reaches Subtropics at 26.5N - Chomiak et al (2025)
- AMOC Collapse in a Strongly Eddying Ocean-Only Model - van Westen et al (2025)
- North Atlantic Bloom : Abrupt Changes in Timing and Magnitude - Kelly et al (2025)
- Ocean Acidification: Biological Responses Are Changing the Global Ocean Carbon Cycle - Barrett et al (2025)
- India reanalysis datasets: capturing hot and cold extremes and trends - Bhattacharyya et al (2025)
- Skeletal morphometrics: high fitness of hybrid coral recruits under ocean warming & acidification - Meyers et al (2025)
- Interview With Fired NOAA Director, Sarah Cooley - by Sabrina Imbler (18 Mar)
- The Overwhelming Growth of Climate Change Science - by Chris Mooney (25 Mar)
- Abrupt sea level rise and Earth’s gradual pole shift: permanent hydrological regime changes in C21st - Seo et al (2025) - CarbonBrief (27 Mar): Global soil moisture in ‘permanent’ decline due to climate change
- Response of Coral Islands to Sea Level Rise (Fiyoaree, Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll, Maldives) - Roelvink et al (2025)
- Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - Damian Carrington, Guardian (3 Apr)
- If sea levels are rising, why is the Maldives still above water? - Lucy Carruthers (Science Feedback)
- 🔥 The Maldives is racing to create new land. Why are so many people concerned? - Jesse Chase-Lubitz (Nature, 24 Apr 2024) -- excellent photostory
- Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD): Projected Changes under Greenhouse Warming - Zheng et al (2025)
- Ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton (Pacific) - Guo et al (2025)
- Oceanic CO2 uptake hole: emergence under global warming - Lee et al (2025)
- Higher precipitation expected with future Southern Ocean warming (E. Asia & W. USA) - Kim et al (2025)
- Mangroves at risk under climate change: tropical cyclones & sea level rise - Hülsen et al (2025)
- Subglacial water amplifies Antarctic contributions to sea-level rise - Zhao et al (2025)
- International Altimetry Service (IAS2024): coastal sea level dataset evaluations - Peng et al (2025)
- Satellite altimetry unveils global submesoscale ocean dynamics - Archer et al (2025)
- Internal Wind Driven Ocean Circulation Variability Delays the Time of Emergence of Externally Forced SST Trends - Larson & McMonigal (2025)
- Trump administration seeks to end climate research at climate agency NOAA (and NASA too) - by Paul Voosen at Science.org (11 Apr)
- Trump administration: Green groups sue over climate webpage removals - by Dharna Noor, The Guardian (15 Apr)
- Marine resilience: reduction of anthropogenic pressures in temperate rocky reefs - Sanabria-Fernández & Lazzari (2025)
- Global and regional drivers for exceptional climate extremes in 2023-2024: beyond the new normal - Minobe et al (2025) - excess energy accumulation in the Earth system drove the exceptional conditions
- High probability of triggering climate tipping points under current policies modestly amplified by Amazon dieback and permafrost thaw - Deutloff et al (2025)
- Sea surface warming faster than expected - ESA (17 Apr)
- Last chance tourism: A systematic literature review and future research directions - Barton & Goh (2025)
- Global Warming Called a Serious Threat by Record-High 48% Americans - by Lydia Saad (16 Apr) Gallup
- Intensifying Seasonality of the Global Water Cycle as Indicated by Sea Surface Salinity - Bingham & Bayler (2025)
- Chlorophyll-a anomalies: Idiosyncratic patterns in response to marine heatwaves (Mediterranean) - Motta et al (2025)
- Ocean Heat Content: Pattern of Global Warming - Trenberth et al (2025)
- Climate Crossroads: Tourism in the Age of Global Warming [PDF] - Vorster & Volschenk (2025)
- Climate: Threats to Reef Conservation, Restoration, and Social-Ecological Resilience (Caribbean) - Hernández-Delgado & Rodriguez-Gonzalez
- Inclusive global collaborations in coral reef science - Roch et al (2025)
- Approaching 1.5°C: how will we know we’ve reached this crucial warming mark? - Betts et al (2023) Nature
- State of the climate: Q1 2025 is close behind 2024 as the hottest start to a year - by Zeke Hausfather (CarbonBrief, 24 Apr)
- Warming Stripes spark climate conversations: from the ocean to the stratosphere - Ed Hawkins et al (2025)
- Sea Levels: Projection of Sterodynamic Sea Level (SdynSL) in CMIP6 Models - Jin et al (2025)
- Sea Surface Temperature Extremes and Heat Stress: A Machine Learning Approach (GBR) - Cyriac et al (2025)
- Floating Offshore Wind Farms With Artificial Reefs: Transatlantic Coastal Community Voices - Dubois et al (2025)
- Disentangling anthropogenic and dynamic contributions to recent ocean warming - Lee et al (2025)
- A dynamical geography of observed trends in the global ocean - Buongiorno & Ludicone
- Extreme Monsoon Changes Threaten the Bay of Bengal’s Role as a Critical Food Source - by Kitta MacPherson (27 Apr, rutgers)
- Dying coral reefs could slow climate change - by Elise Cutts (2 May, Science)
- AMOC Response to CO2 Increase: Surface Flux and Oceanic Advection Feedbacks - Garuba et al (2025)
- Seagrass carbon stock variability and emissions from seagrass loss (global) - Krause et al (2025)
- Seagrass: meeting recovery and carbon mitigation goals (management approach matters) - Ward et al (2025)
- Sea-Level Projections for Singapore (2100 – 2150) - Ng et al (2025)
- Rainfall Pattern Changes of Intense Over-Ocean Tropical Cyclones Under Global Warming [CMIP6] - Chen et al (2025)
- North Atlantic Ocean Heat Accumulation: Anomalously Warm European Summers - Wallberg et al (2025)
- El Niño was a key driver of anomalous ocean warming in Southeast Asia in 2023 - Tan et al (2025)
- Marine Heat Indicators: Near-perpetual Heat Emergence around Mesoamerican Reef Under Climate Change - Phillips et al (2025)
- Climate-mediated population dynamics for the world’s most endangered sea turtle species - Arendt et al (2023)
- Predictability of the Onset of the Rainy Season Across Thailand: Mechanisms and Non-Stationary Behaviour - Moron et al (2025)
- Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change - Mahaut et al (2025)
- Global warming drives a threefold increase in persistence and 1°C rise in intensity of marine heatwaves - Marcos et al (2025)
- Climate change drives persistent organic pollutant dynamics in marine environments - Noyes et al (2025)
- Climate change: Impact on the risk of coral rubble instability by 2100 (GBR) - Liu et al (2025)
- Carbon dynamics under loss and restoration scenarios (world’s largest seagrass meadow) - Moritsch et al (2025)
- Multi-Day Extreme Precipitation Caused Major Floods During Summer Monsoon of 2024 (India) - Chuphal et al (2025)
- Indian summer monsoon precipitation and heat wave frequency patterns – Westward shift over South Asia - Kumar et al (2025)
- Sea-Level Projections (Near-Term Future): Supported by Extrapolation of Tide-Gauge Observations - Wang et al (2025)
- Sea level reconstruction reveals improved separations of regional climate and trend patterns over the last seven decades - Wang et al (2025 preprint)
- Ecological Disaster on Australia’s Coast - ABC NEWS (video, 24 May) - A marine heat wave since September 2024.
- El Niño and La Niña climate swings threaten mangroves worldwide - by Stacey Plaisance (23 May, Tulane)
- Darkening of the Global Ocean - Davies & Smyth (2025) - article (27 May, Plymouth.ac): reduction in depth of photic zones in 21% of global ocean (home to 90% of all marine life)
- Minimizing Remote Effects of Regional Climate Interventions: Cooling Without Teleconnections (GBR) - Krantz et al (2025)
- Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing - Nadimpalli et al (2025)
- Climate Impacts in India: Experience, Worry, and Attribution to Global Warming - Verner et al (2025) Yale
- Absorption capacity for carbon dioxide and ocean acidification: A new indicator (γCO2) - Wang et al (2025)
- Sea-level rise constraints during meltwater pulse 1B from the Great Barrier Reef - Webster et al (2025) - article (Sydney.edu, 4 Jun): Geological time capsule highlights GBR resilience
- 🔥 Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed - Findlay et al (2025) - article (9 June, Guardian) - sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems
- Systematic review on the impacts of climate change and other drivers – Insular ecosystem services in peril - Zittis et al (2025)
- Reefs, Revenue, and Resilience: Why the Maldives Can’t Afford to Lose Its Coral Reefs - Pek Chuan Gan and Ariane Kaploun (30 June, UNDP)
- The great acceleration debate: The World Is Warming Up. And It’s Happening Faster. - Zeke Hausfather (The Climate Brink, 30 June)
- How Fast is the World Warming? - Grant Foster (May 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)
- Climate Change Adaptation Plan: Prevent Coral Species Extinction – UNESCO “Reefs of Hope” (Fiji) - Austin Bowden-Kerby (2025)
- Sea level rise: Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions - Chandanpurkar et al (2025)
- 🔥 Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion - Vogt-Vincent et al (2025)
- A climate of unparalleled malevolence: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? - Peter Brannen (The Guardian, 19 Aug)
- Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 (CMIP6) - Drijfhout et al (2025)
- articles (28 Aug): Potsdam - and - The Guardian
- Seafloor marine heatwaves outpace surface events in the future on the northwestern European shelf - Wilson et al (2025)
- Barystatic sea level change observed by satellite gravimetry: 1993–2022 - Nie et al (2025)
- Drivers of the extreme North Atlantic marine heatwave during 2023 - England et al (2025)
- Sea Surface Temperature Pattern Effect on Outgoing Longwave Radiation: The Role of Large-Scale Convective Aggregation - Quan et al (2025)
- Coastal Restoration May Not Necessarily Enhance Blue Carbon Sink - Zhu et al (2025)
- Floating and stilted structures as strategies in coastal climate adaptation: Local monsoon adaptation practices and implications for flood risk management - Stefan Huebner (2025)
- Seas around the world: pH levels are falling - Lisa Bachelor (The Guardian, 9 Jun) with Profs Steve Widdicombe & James Fishwick
- Episodic reef growth in the Last Interglacial driven by competing influence of polar ice sheets to sea level rise - Vyverberg et al (2025) - Fossil corals point to possibly steeper sea level rise under a warming world (phys.org)
- Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 - Rantanen et al (2022)
- Antarctic tipping points – 2.5 million sq km of sea ice went missing - Jonathan Watts interviews Louise Sime (The Guardian, 27 Jun)
- Managing Monsoons in a Warming Climate [PDF] - Mohanty et al (2024) ESRI-India
- Forecasting sea level rise using enhanced deep learning models - Zitouni et al (2025)
- Stratification and overturning circulation are intertwined controls on ocean heat uptake efficiency in climate models - Vogt et al (2025)
- Reconstructing sea level rise at global 945 tide gauges since 1900 - Mu et al (2025) preprint
- Ocean alkalinity enhancement in an open-ocean ecosystem: biogeochemical responses and carbon storage durability - Paul et al (2025)
- Increased sea-level contribution from northwestern Greenland for models that reproduce observations - Badgeley et al (2025)
- Effects of marine heat waves and cold spells on a polar shallow water ecosystem - Fischer et al (2025)
- Which Body Size Metrics Should Be Used for Assessing Temperature Impacts on Fish Growth and Size? - Audzijonyte et al (2025)
- Pacific Ocean changes may ‘lock in’ US megadrought for decades - James Dinneen (New Scientist, 13 Aug)
- 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
- Marine heatwaves impact organism developmental time - Giménez & Torres (2025)
- It’s not just climate: rethinking ‘climate emotions’ in the age of burnout capitalism - Michael J Albert (2025)
- Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: A new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites - Silvano et al (2025)
- Local acceleration of coastal flood risk in response to relative sea level change - Paulik et al (2025)
- Southern Ocean Time Series: hydrography, biogeochemistry, phytoplankton, and carbon export - Shadwick et al (2025)
- Climate change drives shifts in straddling fish stocks in the world’s ocean - Palacios-Abrantes et al (2025)
- Ocean circulation going South? - realclimate.org (13 Jul)
- Spatio-temporal changes in interannual sea level along the world coastlines - Leclercq et al (2025)
- Regional sea level trend budget over 2004–2022 - Bouih et al (2025)
- Summer warming in the East Antarctic interior triggered by southern Indian Ocean warming - Kurita et al (2025)
- Climate vulnerability assessment of fish and invertebrates (U.S. South Atlantic) - Craig et al (2025)
- Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks - Merow et al (2025)
- Global dataset of storm surges and extreme sea levels for 1950–2024 (ERA5) - Aleksandrova et al (2025) preprint
- Increasing Heat Pile-Up Events in the Southeast Indian Ocean Linked to Multi-Year La Niña Conditions - Li et al (2025)
- Subsurface manifestation of marine heat waves in the southwestern Indian Ocean - Welch et al (2025) copernicus
- Local Environmental Filtering and Frequency of Marine Heatwaves Influence Decadal Trends in Coral Composition (Lakshadweep) - Dey et al (2025)
- Radiative forcing due to aerosol-cloud interactions for shallow warm clouds (Indian Ocean) - Kumar et al (2025)
- 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)
- Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. - NYT (04 Sept)
- La Niña may return but temperatures are likely to be above average - WMO (02 Sept)
- 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)
- Tropical Pacific Warming Patterns Influence Future Hydroclimate Shifts and Extremes in the Americas - Heede et al (2025)
- Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report - by Dana Nuccitelli (Yale Climate, 15 Sept)
- Sea Surface Temperatures Hit 97.7F (36.5C) – ‘One of the Highest’ Ever Recorded (Persian Gulf) - Jess Thomson (Newsweek, 27 Aug)
- Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare - National Academies of Sciences (2025)
- Rate of Global Warming Could Double, says ex-NASA climate scientist James Hansen - Bob Berwyn (insideClimateNews, 15 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)
- 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)
- A climate data record of atmospheric moisture and sea surface temperature from satellite observations - Fu et al (2025)
- 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)
- Reddit: On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’ - by Sam Wolfson (Guardian, 26 Jun)
- 🔥 WMO Annual Report: State of the Climate in Asia (2024) - published 23 June 2025
- Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections - Zeke Hausfather et al (2019)
- 🔥 Planetary Health Check 2025 - Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet (PIK Potsdam, 24 Sept)
- Europe’s Environment and Climate Report 2025 - EEA (European Environmental Agency, 29 Sept) 5-yearly report
- 🔥 Copernicus Ocean State Report 9 - OSR9 Press Release (23 Sept 2025) - full report (155 page PDF)
- Atmospheric implications of ocean–atmosphere physicochemical interactions - Wang & Gligorovski (2025)
- Ocean stratification in a warming climate [PDF] - Cheng et al (2025)
- Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Fanning & Raworth (2025)
- 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"
- A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems - Halpern et al (2008)
- Emerging hemispheric asymmetry of Earth’s radiation - Loeb et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Bif et al (2025) - MBARI: press release - and - blogpost (Bif, 6 Oct)
- Marine heatwaves attributed to rising atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases (N.Pacific) - Barkhordarian et al (2022)
- Intensification of marine heatwaves and their climate drivers in the Arabian Gulf - Paradan et al (2025)
- Recent European marine heatwaves are unprecedented but not unexpected - Atkins et al (2025)
- Regional ocean biogeochemical modeling challenges for predicting the effectiveness of marine carbon dioxide removal - Ward 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)
- Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records - by Zeke Hausfather (6 Oct)
- Hybrid Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Climate Change Adaptation - David et al (2025)
- Coral bleaching projections for the Great Barrier Reef throughout the 21st century - DeCarlo & Whitaker (2025)
- Electrifying coralline algae to regenerate beaches and eroding islands against climate change - by Thomas Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance (2025)
- Numerical modelling of the 1 July 2022 flooding event (SW Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives): Implications for the future - Masselink et al (2025)
- Mapping the safe operating space of marine ecosystems under contrasting emission pathways - Bourgeois et al (2025)
- Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations - Loriani et al (2025) preprint
- Inter-basin contrast in the Southern Ocean warming - Song et al (2025)
- Statistical Features of a Time-Averaged Global State Estimate: Implications for Sea Level and Heat Content Change - Carl Wunsch (2025)
- Detection of Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Extremes: Low Frequency Variability and Climate Change - Serva 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)
- Reconciling urgency and restraint in the coral climate crisis: A philosophy of practice - Streit 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)
- Global climate-change trends detected in indicators of ocean ecology - Cael et al (2023)
- Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation - Mulà, et al (2025)
- AMOC: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation - by Stefan Rahmstorf (RealClimate, 12 Oct)
- Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability (SE China) - Lin 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
- The effects of climate change on coral fecundity (of Acropora aspera) in the Great Barrier Reef [PDF] - Morane (2025) MPhil
- AMOC: Causal mechanisms of subpolar gyre variability in CMIP6 models - Falkena et al (2025)
- Inevitable global coral reef decline under climate change-induced thermal stresses - Zeng 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)
- Leading dynamical processes of global marine heatwaves in an ocean state estimate - Sala et al (2025)
- Reconstructing sea level rise from global 945 tide gauges since 1900 - Mu et al (2025)
- 🔥 Roadmap for Fostering Coral Reef Resilience in the Maldives [PDF] - by World Bank (2024)
- 🔥 Country Climate and Development Report: Maldives - by World Bank
- Coastal flooding and mean sea-level rise allowances in atoll island, Maldives - Amores et al (2022)
- Maldivian Coral Reef Resilience Following Repeated Bleaching Events - Montefalcone et al (2020)
- 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
- Sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades - Nauels et al (2025)
- Climate Refugia Could Disappear From Australia’s Marine Protected Areas by 2040 - Pidd 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)
- New climate pledges only slightly lower dangerous global warming projections - UNEP Emissions Gap Report 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
- State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 - International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) Sweden (6 Nov)
- Unprecedented Carbon Accumulation in the Indian Ocean During 2016–2017 - Zhang et al (2025)
- Antarctic meltwater alters future projections of climate and sea level - Sadai et al (2025)
- 2025 State of the Climate Report: a planet on the brink - Ripple et al (2025)
- Differential responses of corals to nutrient stoichiometry under heat stress (Montipora digitata, Xenia umbellata) - Mezger et al (2025)
- Marine heatwaves deeply alter marine food web structure and function - de Luzinais et al (2025)
- Intensification of extreme cold events in East Asia in response to global mean sea-level rise - Dong et al (2025)
- Increasing Frequency of Very Severe Cyclonic Storms Over the Northern Indian Ocean Driven by Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Forcing - Cao et al (2025)
- 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)
- Evolving Southern Ocean overturning in warming climates - Zhu & Liu (2025)
- Biogeographic Changes in a High Latitude Marine Fish Community: Short-Time Reversals in Response to Climate Variation - Ellingsen et al (2025)
- Progressive changes in coral reef communities with increasing ocean acidification - Noonan et al (2025)
- Observed large-scale and deep-reaching compound ocean state changes over the past 60 years - Tan 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
- Strengthening Local Climate Governance and Action in Male’ City, Maldives - Chaudhuri et al (2025)
- Politicians in South-East Asia ignore climate change at their own political peril - by Karishma Vyas (ABC, 6 Dec)
- The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy – and needs more attention - by Dyna Rochmyaningsih (Nature, 05 Dec)
- SST Future Projections Utilising CMIP6 GCM Ensembles (Caribbean) - Hibbert et al (2025)
- Sea-surface temperature extremes during the last interglacial (Maldives cf Bahamas) - Cannings et al (2025) preprint
- 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)
- Ocean acidification: Global perspectives and India’s path forward - Vysakh et al (2025)
- 2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say - by Alexa St. John (phys.org, 30 Dec)
- From pollution to ocean warming: The climate impacts of marine microplastics - Nawab et al (2026)
- Will 2026 be the year when coral reefs pass their tipping point? - by Samantha Garrard (The Conversation, 5 Jan)
- Climate Study Reveals Profound Climate Trends with Far-Reaching Impacts - AccuWeather (5 Jan)
- Future Changes in the Annual Sea-Level Cycle - Hermans et al (2026) preprint
- 🔥 Global Climate Highlights Report 2025 - Copernicus
- Islandness and resilience: a study of food systems in the Maldives - Hassan et al (2026)
- Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025 - Pan et al (2026)
- Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security - Department for Environment, UK Govt (20 Jan)
- WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record - WMO press release (14 Jan)
- Abrupt trend change in global mean sea level and its components in the early 2010s - Leclercq et al (2026) preprint pdf
- Weak self-induced cooling of tropical cyclones amid fast sea surface warming - Guan et al (2026)
- India: Who is most Worried about Heat and Air Pollution? - By Marija Verner et al (2026) Yale Climate Communication
- WEF26: How can we build prosperity within planetary boundaries? - eco sessions & essays from WEF (January 2026)
- Impact analysis of sea level rise on the future fate of small coral islands (Hurasdhoo, Maldives) - Sungwoo Lee (2026)
- Major heat wave in the North Atlantic had widespread and lasting impacts on marine life - Werner et al (2026)
- Extreme rainfall over land exacerbated by marine heatwaves - Wang etal (2026)
- Warming Trend in the Western Indian Ocean Driven by Oceanic Transport - Joseph et al (2025)
- Long-wavelength steric sea level and heat storage anomaly maps to 2000m (temperature, salinity, altimetry, gravimetry) - Chambers & Reinelt (2026)
- Thresholds of Wave Forcing: Implications for Atoll Reef Dynamics Under Sea Level Rise (Maldives) - Lindhart et al (2026)
- Seychelles: Stakeholder preferences and perceived effectiveness of coastal adaptation measures - Weishaupt et al (2026)
- Double Trouble for the Maldives: Caught between Rising Seas and Rising Powers - by Dr Vrinda Malik
- Severe and widespread coral reef damage during the 2014-2017 Global Coral Bleaching Event - Eakin et al (2026)
- The ocean’s biological carbon pump under pressure - Jack J. Middelburg (science.org)
- Southern Ocean Net Primary Production in a Changing Climate - Tagliabue et al (2025)
- Sea level rise impact modelling for integrated assessment models (FRISIAv1.0) - Ramme et al (2025)
- Observation-based quantification of physical processes that impact sea level - Sjoerd Groeskamp (Copernicus)
- Climate model (ACCESS-AM2) underestimates aerosol concentration in the Southern Ocean - Fiddes et al (2025)
- Marine Benthic Carbon in a Changing World - Schultz et al (2025)
- The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory - Ripple et al (2026)
- Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the AMOC - Westen & Dijkstra (2026)
- Challenges in projecting future global sea levels (carbonbrief) - by oceanographers Drs Bruckner & Hattermann (17 Feb)
- Integrated Ocean Carbon (IOC) Research: a vision primed for implementation [UNESCO] - Robinson et al (2026) - 72 authors across 23 countries
- Integrated Ocean Carbon (IOC) Research: Major blind spot could undermine global climate predictions - by Alex Morrison (exeter.ac.uk, 25 Feb)
- Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Seeger & Minderhoud (2026) - article (PBS, AP, 4 Mar)
- Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years - by Alexandra Witze (Nature, 6 Mar)
- Projected Global Diversity of Marine Heatwaves in the 21st Century - Zhang et al (2026)
- Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly - Foster & Rahmstorf (2026)
- State of the Global Climate 2025 - World Meteorological Organization (WMO, Feb 26)
- Super El Niño: How the Rapid Collapse of La Niña is Triggering a Massive Global Shift for 2026 - by Andrej Flis (12 Mar)
- Global climate mode resonance due to rapidly intensifying El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - Stuecker et al (2025)
- AMOC Collapse would lead to substantial oceanic carbon release and additional global warming - Nian et al (2026)
- Island nations fight to save cultural heritage from climate change (Maldives, Palau) - by Adam Wentworth (Climate Home News, 30 Mar)
- Maldives’ First Biennial Transparency Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [PDF] - UNFCCC, Nov 2024
- Maldives National Climate Action Plan Towards Resilience and Low-Carbon Development [PDF] - UNFCCC, Feb 2025
- AMOC: Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution - Xing et al (2026)
- Projected changes in tropical instability wave activity in the Pacific Ocean under greenhouse warming - Xue et al (2026)
- Super El Niño is coming: how a hotter ocean could change the weather - by Andrew Freedman (CNN, 8 Apr)
- Strongest El Niño in a century? What this rare phenomenon could bring. - by Ben Noll (WaPo, 6 Apr)
- Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’ – and what could we expect? - by Gabrielle Canon (Guardian, 13 Apr)
- Water and carbon accounting of desalination-linked balance closure in the Maldives - Shaikh Afnan Birahim (2026)
- AMOC Observational constraints: 50% weakening this century - Portmann et al (2026) - article by Damian Carrington (Guardian, 15 Apr)
- Tourism as a Catalyst for Blue Carbon Restoration and Conservation: Pathways, Gaps, and Opportunities - Suresh et al (2026)
- The achievability of low-emission IPCC sea-level rise scenarios - Millman et al (2026)
- Interacting Effects of Sea-Level Rise and Ocean Warming Reshape Thermal Environments on a Coral Reef - Rogers et al (2026)
- Record-Breaking Marine Heatwaves Across Global Coral Reefs in 2024 - Yao & Wang (2026)
- Spatial and temporal dynamics of coral bleaching (1982–2023): hotspot persistence and ENSO-phase contrasts - Roy (2026)
- Indian Ocean temperature anomalies predict long-term global dengue trends - Chen et al (2024)
- The world’s enclosed seas highlight the need for urgent emission reductions and societal adaptation - Gröger et al (2026)
- Gulf of Mexico: waters are heating up twice as fast as the global oceans - by Jeff Masters (Yale, 13 May)
- Improved closure of the global mean sea level budget from observational advances since 1960 - Zheng et al (2026)
- Global coral reef collapse is not inevitable - Vogt-Vincent et al (2026) article
- Marine heatwaves drive widespread loss and slow recovery of coastal carbon cycling - Filbee-Dexter et al (2026) preprint
- Climate modes can be leveraged to forecast coral bleaching months in advance - Galochkina et al (2026) - article (WHOI, 2 June) - New climate tool
- Transport of warm bias from Indian Ocean subsurface to Southern Ocean surface - Ma et al (2026) preprint
- El Niño has begun. It may become the strongest this century - byHannah Richter (Science, 11 Jun)
- Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: state of the climate system and human influence - Forster et al (2026) copernicus
- Maldives Country Climate and Development Report : Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Changes in Maldives - World Bank
- Coastal Management in the Maldives: A Fight Against the Rising Sea - by Tom McAndrew (4 Dec 2025)
- Monsoon stuck like never before: El Nino not alone in blocking the rain march - India Today Science Desk (19 Jun)
- Material requirements for adapting to climate change in the Maldives - Singh et al (2026) preprint
- Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information (formerly NOAA’s Climate.gov) - Rebecca Lindsey, Director
- Assessing early oil industry awareness of the impacts of fossil fuels on coral reefs using a novel AI agent - Franta et al (2026)
- The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more - by Matthew England, ARC (The Conversation, 2 July)
- Marine Heatwaves Have Increased in Frequency, Duration, and Depth Across Southeast Asia - Gulakaram et al (2026)
- Planetary Health – Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations - Gupta, Rockström et al (2024) The Lancet
- Charting a Transformational Course Toward a Safe and Just Future: The Earth Commission’s Contribution - Rockström et al (2026)
- Sub-basin sea level budget analysis in the North Indian Ocean (2003–2024) - Pillai et al (2026) preprint
- Relative contributions of waves and altimetric sea levels to global coastal sea level changes over 1993–2025 - Peng et al (2026)
- The Strongest El Niño Ever - Zeke Hausfather (The Climate Brink, 13 July)
- Global temperature rises in steps – we can expect a steep climb this year and next - Kevin Trenberth (The Conversation, 11 July 2023)
- Track how extreme this year’s El Niño could get - by Ben Noll & John Muyskens (WaPo, 10 July)
- Surging Tropical Pacific ocean surface temperatures and early European heatwave in May - Copernicus (11 Jun)
- Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025 (latest climate science in one infographic) - by John Lang (11 Jun)
- India’s Western coast: wetter and hotter with reduced monsoon rainfall by 2040 - by Nidhi Jamwal (1 June)
- Indian Coastal Region: Climate Projections 2021 – 2040 (major new report) - by Azim Premji University (June 2026)
- Why A Record-Hot Ocean Is Supercharging The El Niño Effect - by Ingmar Rentzhog (Forbes, 9 July)
- Coral Reef Protection May Help Avert Risks to People, Property, and Economic Activity Caused by Projected Reef Degradation - Storlazzi et al (2026)
- Global Coastal Marine Heatwaves (1982–2023) and Implications for Trend Attribution - Sun et al (2026)
- Human-induced intensification of sea surface temperature regime shifts threatens global Large Marine Ecosystems - Xing et al (2026)
- Dynamic and steric sea-level changes due to a collapsing AMOC in the Community Earth System Model - van Westen et al (2026)
- Past Acropora mortality linked to climate variability and anthropogenic impacts (GBR) - Clark et al (2026) preprint
- Assessing NOAA Coral Reef Watch alerts and ECOSTRESS thermal imagery in Belize - Galdamez et al (2026)
- Aquatic deoxygenation feedbacks: “unsafe” levels of oxygen loss with far-reaching impacts - Ferrer et al (2026)
- Diurnal cycles of cloud and rainfall during the coral bleaching season (NE Queensland) - Chapman et al (2026)
- Distinct Characteristics of Contiguous Heatwaves Across Terrestrial, Marine, and Coastal Environments - Bekris et al (2026)
- Sensitivity of marine heatwaves metrics to SST products (Tropical Pacific) - Chevillard et al (2026)
- El Niño is here: what it means for Maldivian reefs - by Ahmed Naish (Maldives Independent, 21 July)
- Human-caused sea level rise drives 21st-century worldwide water level extremes - Gilford et al (2026)
- Flooding Risks in Malé (Maldives): From the Past to Present [PDF] - Shamin et al (2026) working paper
- Artificial Island Development as a Climate Change Adaptation Measure for Atoll Countries - Nakayama et al (2026)
- Reclaiming an archipelago? Land reclamation in the not-so-vanishing Maldives - dell'Agnese et al (2026)
- Persistence Without Resilience: Long-Term Degradation of Coral Populations in an Extreme Reef System - Riegl & Georg (2026) preprint
- Climate risks on small islands using a Bayesian framework, heterogeneous data and knowledge (Polynesia) - Badillo-Interiano et al (2026) preprint
- Sea levels: the weirdest changes on Earth are happening off the coast of Japan - by Chris Mooney & Yumi Asada (CNN, 22 Dec)
- Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory - by Andrej Flis (12 Aug)
- Marine heatwaves pose hidden threat to human physical and mental health - by Falkenberg & Russell (adelaide.edu, 11 Aug)
- State of the Climate Report (2025): Takeaways from the Global Oceans - by AMS (10 Aug 2026) - editors Volkov & Perez
- Coastal and marine ecosystems under climate change: ecological and socio-environmental impacts - Ruban et al (2026)
- Is this El Niño a glimpse of a future, hotter Earth? - by Andrew Dessler & Zeke Hausfather (theclimatebrink, 17 Aug)
- India seems immune to global warming, and nobody knows why - by Hayley Bennett (BBC, 18 Aug)
- India is warming much less than most countries, and scientists aren’t sure why - by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar (8 Apr 2025)
- The ‘super’ El Niño is coming for our corals (Maldives) - by Maldives Independent (23 Aug 2026)
- Recent Temperature and Energy Imbalance Trends Point to Higher Estimates of Future Warming - Gyuleva et al (2026)
- Assessing Human Thermal Stress in the Maldives: A Comparative Analysis of UTCI and Apparent Temperature - Abdulkareem et al (2026) preprint
- Climate change is driving unprecedented European ocean temperatures, with severe impacts for marine life - Bergin et al (2026)
- Evolution of Global Sea-Level Rise Projections and Their Uncertainty - Garner et al (2026)
- Global Mean Sea Level reconstruction: improvement to short term variability - Shaw et al (2026)
- Monsoon Precipitation: Diagnosing CESM2 Biases in NW Indian Ocean Warming - Chen et al (2026)
- What Do 2°C and 3°C Global Warming Mean for the Tropical Indian Ocean? - Manoj & Dhage (2026) preprint
- The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record - by Andrew Dessler (climatebrink, 14 Sep 2026)
- See How Much Corals Have Declined in Just 40 Years - by Melissa Hobson (NatGeo, 9 Sept 2026)
- Marine heatwaves reshape survival of small corals, revealing size- and taxa-specific vulnerabilities - Baker et al (2026)
- Emergence of Uncompensable Heat Stress During Monsoon Season in India - Chuphal et al (2026)
- Ocean heat content (OHC): combining GRACE gravity, satellite altimetry and Argo profile observations - Uebbing et al (2026)
- Ocean Heat Uptake: New Constraint Revealed by Model Spread of Radiative Forcing - Wu & Gregory (2026)
- Sea Level Changes in the GECCO3 Ocean Synthesis - Stammer et al (2026)
- Copernicus Ocean State Report (OSR): 10th edition - Copernicus Team (2026)
- Marine Heatwaves: Persistent warm water anomalies amplify heat exposure - Nardi et al (2026) - A longer, hotter reality (Patrick McGettigan, VIMS, July 2026)
- Marine Heatwaves and Their Effects on Long-Term Changes in Marine Ecosystems - Guibourd de Luzinais et al (2026)
- Coastal El Niño Events in CMIP6 Models: Relationship to Mean-State and ENSO Biases - Rivera Tello & Karamperidou (2026)
- Coral Skeletal Banding: Reconstructing Climate (Statistical Effects of Replicating Cores and Observers) - Hedger et al (2026)
- El Niño goes off the charts: ‘Perfect storm’ - Dinah Voyles Pulver & Janet Loehrke (USA Today, 2 oct 2026)
- Planetary Health Check 2026 - Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockström (PIK)
- Sea level rise poses an ‘existential threat’ to humans, heritage and nature - by Dr Giuliana Viglione (carbonbrief, 22 Sept 2026)
- ☑️WWF 2026 Living Planet Report - World Wildlife Fund (7 Oct 2026)
- ☑️El Niño – the strongest in a thousand years? - by Zeke Hausfather (theclimatebrink, 12 Oct 2026)
- ☑️Marine ecosystems in peril: Time to prepare for super El Niño - Bruno et al (2026)
Marine & Coral Biology ▼
- Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene - Hughes et al (2018) Science
- Principles for coral reef restoration in the anthropocene - Hughes et al (2023)
- Newly deceased Caribbean reef-building corals experience rapid carbonate loss and colonization by endolithic organisms - Medellín-Maldonado (et al) 2023 Commun Biol
- The race to build climate-resilient coral reefs (BBC)
- Belize begins assessment of ‘worst coral bleaching event in a decade’
- Free online course – Coral Reefs: Introduction to Challenges and Solutions
- NOAA: Coral Infographics Gallery
- Restoration of endangered Acropora palmata (Florida)
- Variability of the surface boundary layer of reef-building coral species
- Stony coral tissue loss disease: a review (etiology, diagnostics, etc)
- Microplastics in coral ecosystems: threat needs more global attention
- Reef Restoration: impacts of materials on coral bacteria
- Coral resilience in the face of climate change (Hawaii)
- Bleaching & recovery following a decade of successive marine heatwaves
- Cross-ocean transplantation to restore resilience of Caribbean reefs
- Assessment of warm-water coral reef tipping point thresholds [PDF]
- Reef Restoration Field Photogrammetry in 4D (08.2023 PDF)
- Coral Growth Media: Coconut Shells v Concrete (Indonesia PDF)
- Acropora cervicornis: Spawning Asynchrony, Light & Temperature (Florida, PDF)
- Coral Restoration: Comparisons in Space, Time, Impact, Cost [PDF]
- Within-reef variability in coral dynamics: modelling framework [PDF]
- Site Selection: Stony Coral Microfragment Outplant Success [PDF]
- Reef fish abundance enhancement via reef restoration (Malaysia PDF)
- Zooplankton fecal pellets: Sinking and carbon [PDF]
- Reef fish resilience following … coral bleaching (GBR PDF)
- Microplastics: Systematic Review, Detection, Removal
- Cubipod structures: placement grids (breakwaters & shore protection)
- Giving hermit crabs new homes (Dodo video)
- Clownfish may be capable of simple math
- Counting Nemo: Amphiprion ocellaris identify their species
- Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using “Reef Carpets”
- Microplastic exposure on Pocillopora damicornis
- Sponge-derived matter is assimilated by coral holobionts - a recycling pathway that could improve coral aquaculture
- Pocilloporid corals in the warming oceans of Australia
- After mass coral die-off, Florida scientists rethink plan to save ailing reefs
- Benthic habitat assessments on coral reefs: direct field measurements v remote sensing
- Coral Restoration in Palk Bay (India, PDF)
- Diversity of Chaetodontidae (Butterflyfish) and Relationship With Corals (Indonesia, PDF)
- Green turtles & seagrass: habitat management (Au, PDF)
- The evolving relationship between humans and sharks (PDF)
- The world has warmed 1.5 °C, according to 300-year-old sponges
- Adaptation to climate change: Fuvahmulah, Maldives
- Adaptation of sea turtles to climate warming : Will phenological responses counteract changes in reproductive output? (2023)
- Tuna fishing: Interactions with Endangered species (Maldives) [PDF]
- Global areas for coral reefs from satellite mapping
- Coral Tissue Regeneration: Stem-like Cells
- Review: Climatic Threats and Adaptation of Marine Biodiversity
- Environmental monitoring of foraminiferal distribution (Lakshadweep)
- Mapping new global coral reef areas (Lyons et al) [PDF]
- Fish biogeographic ranges under ocean warming - Hayes et al (2024)
- Hawksbill turtles on the seabed (60m deep): feeding habits - Remote submerged banks provide habitat (Chagos)
- Microbial community of coral reefs : biofilm composition on artificial substrates under different environmental conditions
- Temperature sensitivity of detrital photosynthesis (kelp forest carbon cycle) - Wright et al (2023)
- Mantas: population & habitat in Seychelles
- Impacts of heatwave & disturbance on juvenile corals [PDF]
- Herbivory across Pacific coral reefs [PDF]
- Sponges on living Scleractinian corals (Indonesia) [PDF]
- GBR: Extensive coral bleaching (29-Feb-24) - video by James Cook University, Australian Institute of Marine Science.
- Great Barrier Reef Aerial Surveys: Bleaching (28-Feb-24) - press release by The GBR Marine Park Authority
- GBR suffers ‘extensive’ coral bleaching [CNN] - scientists fear seventh mass bleaching event
- Reef restoration: benthic recruitment processes [PDF]
- Heat Tolerant Corals for Reef Restoration [PDF]
- Transects in coral cover: motion photogrammetry - Wang et al (2024)
- Securing Coral Reefs: Sustainable Development Goals
- How much sediment is supplied to coral islands from the reef system? - Scientists provide first detailed estimates (Maldives) : Meta-Study
- World on brink of fourth mass coral reef bleaching event - Reuters exclusive: "entirety of Southern Hemisphere is probably going to bleach".
- GBR: Lord Howe island ‘major’ coral bleaching
- Marine protected areas to rebuild fish stocks
- 🔉 Interview: Prof Terry Hughes on GBR coral bleaching - ABC News (Aus) audio recorded 08-Feb-24
- GBR bleaching is 5th in 8 summers – the corals now have almost no reprieve (by Prof Terry Hughes)
- Gluts of Ghost Gear - staggering amounts of fishing gear discarded
- Citizen science: tracking abundance of marine fish
- Maldives Pole-and-Line Skipjack Tuna Fishery [PDF] Marine Stewardship Council, Indian Ocean: Lessons of Sustainability (in Fishing)
- CoralWatch: Coral Bleaching at Point Vernon (GBR) (twitter video)
- Deoxygenation triggers mass coral mortality (2022) - following coral spawning and thermal stress (Ningaloo Reef, AU) - Richards et al (2024)
- Caribbean Corals: 6 Months Later
- GBR Mass Bleaching of 200yo Corals (ABC 14 Mar) - and video
- WaPo: Fatal heat wave strikes unspoiled GBR archived link
- GBR: Coral bleaching in Far North - James Cook Uni
- One in Seven Deepwater Sharks and Rays Threatened With Extinction
- Coral Restoration Drives Reef Carbonate Budget Recovery - Lange et al (2024.03) Current Biology
- GBR: Underwater Bushfire (14 Mar)
- 🌱 Mangroves of the Maldives: distribution & diversity - Cerri et al (2024) Aquat Sci
- Sea anemone: prey capture & predation when bleached (Exaiptasia diaphana)
- GBR: Coral Bleaching Video (uploaded 15 Mar) - on Instagram - by Yolanda Waters, @ausconservation & @theundertowmedia.ocean
- GBR: Mass coral bleaching extends to SE Queensland (16 Mar)
- 4,000+ plastic chemicals are hazardous - persistent, bioaccumulative, mobile, toxic - extensive new research report by PlastChem
- Seabirds from the poles: microplastics pollution sentinels - Taurozzi & Scalici (2024.03) Sec. Marine Pollution
- Seabirds in Arctic: 97% have ingested microplastics
- GBR: Tourism-led coral-planting [PDF]
- Corals in a warming hotspot: demographic shifts & disturbance responses - Sommer et al (2024) Sci Rep
- GBR (north): latest bleaching photos (19 Mar) Mass mortality: 8km of reef is now >80% bleached/dead after ~6 DHW - @JezRoff
- Maldives: Coral Bleaching Alert Issued
- GBR: Cognitive dissonance with mass coral bleaching
- Coral Bleaching in South Huvadhu Atoll, Maldives - twitter photos @nixams8 & @MaldivesCoral
- Coral Reef Restoration: Environmental & Climatic Considerations - Burdett et al (2024)
- articles: Tomorrow's Reefs - and - Restoring Reefs
- First Nations: Marine Genetic Conservation - Quigley et al (2024)
- Fish Migrating to Poles to Escape Warming Waters
- GBR: Guides Face Up To Bleaching Tragedy - ‘Tourists ask a lot of questions’ (22 Mar)
- Six Months On, Caribbean Corals Are Still Reeling
- Bleaching reduces reproductive output in Acropora millepora - Briggs et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Genomics of a novel ecological phase shift: the case of a ‘weedy’ Montipora coral - Bernardi et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Functions on coral reefs: past, current and future potential - Bellwood et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem food webs & energy flux - Gomes et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate corals - Richards et al (2024) - 438 coral species, Australasia - twitter photos: @ZoeR_Coral
- Increasing hypoxia in coastal ocean (US Pacific NW)
- Threats and Impacts to the Seascape of Mauritius [PDF]
- Restoration: poor long-term survival of Acropora cervicornis [PDF]
- Monitoring, Assessing & Managing Large Marine Ecosystems [PDF]
- Coral reefs: Ecology-social resilience (Indonesia)
- Good fisheries management is good carbon management - overfishing disrupts the marine vertebrates carbon cycle and damages the seabed.
- Future oceans: genomic forecasting in marine species - Layton et al (2024)
- Depth variation: benthic community response to repeated marine heatwaves (Chagos) - 25m is not safe
- Detection of human pharmaceuticals in soft corals (Maldives) - Becchi et al (2024) Chemosphere
- Millepora Returns After 1998 Mortality (Maldives) in deeper waters of 7–13m - Pancrazi et al (2024) Diversity
- Marine Protected Areas: Economic Benefits (paper review) - Costello (2024) Sci. mar.
- Coastal Restoration: Small Island States in the Face of Sea Level Rise - Hernández-Delgado (2024) Coasts
- Deep-sea expedition captures stunning images
- Nanotechnology to restore reef biodiversity - ‘Cities under the sea’
- GBR Climatic factors: main drivers of coral bleaching (ARC) - PDF
- Response of 2 scleractinian corals to ocean warming
- Coastal Flood Hazard Assessment for Tuvalu - Wandres et al (2024) Earth's Future
- GBR: Reef Health Updates (05 Apr) - Reef status: 25% healthy, 60% high+ bleaching. (SSTs remain +0.5-1.5C)
- Habitat Use of Loggerhead & Green Turtles (NW Pacific) - Caretta caretta & Chelonia mydas - Kim et al (2024) PLoS ONE
- GBR: Unprecedented spread of coral bleaching - “It’s alarming how extensive and severe this current coral bleaching event is” - Herald (06 Apr)
- Resilience to periodic disturbances in Acropora - Thomas et al (2024) Commun Biol
- GBR: Corals can bounce back after heatwaves – but only if there’s enough time between them
- GBR: 75% of reefs have been affected [10 News] - twitter video @10NewsFirstQLD (07 Apr)
- Deep-freezing corals to repopulate future oceans
- Global Warming: Atlantic species to colonize the Mediterranean
- Manta Ray cleaning station zooplankton community (Indonesia) - Widiastuti & Borumei (2024) Biodiversitas
- Reef restoration structures: coral-associated bacteria Strudwick et al (2024) Front. Mar. Sci.
- Sea Ice in 2023 (review) Roach & Meier (2024) Nat Rev Earth Environ
- Seagrass Monitoring: AI-driven remote sensing (Mediterranean) - Chowdhury et al (2024)
- GBR: ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record - and video
- Coral-seeding devices: fish-exclusion reduces mortality - Whitman et al (2024)
- Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ - Delgadillo-Ordoñez et al (2024) Commun Biol
- Impacts of ocean warming & acidification on marine animals (meta-analysis) - Alter et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi): Spatial connectivity (Indonesia) - Setyawan wt al (2024) Soc Open Sci
- Morphologically driven sedimentation patterns on a coral reef - Sartori et al (preprint 2024) Research Square
- NOAA: 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event Underway - BBC (15 Apr)
- NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event
- Increasing frequency of deadly ocean upwells - Climate change-driven cooling kills marine megafauna - Lubitz et al (2024) Nat Clim Change.
- Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record
- GBR MPA: Reef snapshot summer 2023-24
- Butterflyfish: A Guide [PDF] - Ismail & Goeden (2024)
- Earth’s Coral Reefs Face Deadly Mass Bleaching - Sci Am (17 Apr)
- GBR Orthomosaic (19 March): coral bleaching at Lizard Island - George Roff
- Sea turtle nests under threat (Australia) - flatback (Natator depressus)
- Global database: coral recovery following marine heatwaves
- GBR is ‘transforming’ from repeated coral bleaching
- GBR: Underwater Resources at Lizard Island (AFP)
- RADReef: A global Holocene Reef Rate of Accretion Dataset - Hynes et al (2024) Sci Data
- Zero coral recovery, three years after major bleaching event (SW Atlantic) - Corazza et al (2024) Mar Biol
- Brazil braces for worst coral bleaching ever - Reuters (18 April)
- Extreme heat in 2023: drastic slump in marine life (New Sci) - Decline in ocean net primary production - Bowles et al (2024 preprint)
- GBR: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat
- Coral aquaculture: Low light intensity increased survival of early recruits (spat) - Ramsby et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Corals survive severe bleaching: taxa, colony size, water depth - Winslow et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster) feeding ecology - Foo et al (2024)
- ReScape: Transforming coral-reefscape images for quantitative analysis - Ferris et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Floating Artificial Island: solar energy for coral recovery (VietNam) - Lê Thanh Tài (2024) pre-print
- Increased suspended sediments near global river deltas - Hou et al (2024) Nat Commun
- GBR’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard
- AFP Factcheck: Coral reef misinformation
- Warming seas push India’s fishers into distant, dangerous waters
- Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves - Trigger Mass Sealife Die-Offs (and Grief in Marine Scientists)
- Coral-killing Sponge (Terpios hoshinota): Spicules - Hirose et al (2024)
- Seagrass and Carbon Storage (W.Aus) - ABC News
- GBR in crisis: scientists despair as corals perish
- GBR: ‘Like wildfires underwater’ – Worst summer on record as coral die-off sweeps planet - CNN (4 May)
- GBR: ‘prevalent bleaching – crisis under the water’ - 9NEWS (5 May)
- Stony coral tissue loss disease indirectly alters reef communities - Swaminathan et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Rehabilitating coral reefs in the Anthropocene - Edwards et al (2024) Current Biology
- Naifaru House Reef: coral bleaching video (Lhaviyani Atoll, Maldives) 🇲🇻 - Instagram reel by @atollmarinecentre
- Actinostella (sea anemone): Revision - Barragán et al (2024)
- Wave Energy Distribution In A Coral Reef Lagoon - Belkadi et al (2024)
- Lakshadweep: coral bleaching threatens marine ecosystem
- Thermal tolerance of scleractinian corals (S. China Sea) - Huang et al (2024) Journal of Sea Research
- Seagrass meadows are rapidly expanding (Maldives) - Matthew Floyd discusses his new paper
- Seagrass meadow expansion in Indian Ocean bright spot (Maldives) - Floyd et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Shortfin devil ray (Mobula kuhlii): Behavior and demographics - Carpenter et al (2024) Mar Biol
- Island accretion within a degraded reef ecosystem (Indonesia) - Kappelmann et al (2024) Sedimentary Geology
- Effects of built structures in shallow, tropical coral reefs - Paxton et al (2024) Environ Evid
- High rates of erosion on a wave-exposed fringing coral reef - Thomson et al (2024)
- Sandy beach erosion: impacts & adaptation (Thailand) - Thepsiriamnuay & Pumijumnong (2024) Environ Dev Sustain
- Blue Carbon Ecosystems: It’s time to broaden our understanding - James et al (2024)
- Coral reef complexity: cryptobenthic biodiversity (Maldives) - Brodnicke et al (2024)
- World’s oceans are changing colour (BBC)
- Whalesharks: vanishing without trace - NatGeo (23 May)
- Mangrove forests: Half at risk due to human behaviour
- Coral reef fish: Timing-specific parental effects of ocean warming - Bonzi et al (2024) Proc. R. Soc. B
- Carbonate and sediment budgets: marginal reef systems - Dee et al (2024) Marine Geology
- Thai sea temperatures hit new record: mass coral bleaching (Reuters)
- Kelp carried to the deep sea stores more carbon
- Mangroves: Globally, more than half are at risk of collapse by 2050 - Findings report: Red List of Mangrove Ecosystems (IUCN)
- Mobula birostris x M. alfredi: First Documented Courtship Behavior - Setyawan et al (2024) Diversity
- Sea urchin die-off spreading through the world’s oceans
- Trash: Deep-Learning for Underwater Waste Detection Walia & Pavithra (2024) arXiv
- Coral Shoals Detection from Satellite Imagery - Li et al (2024) Mar. Sci. Eng.
- Mapping emergent coral reefs: pixel- and object-based methods - Stone et al (2024) Wiley
- Effects of water flow and ocean acidification on oxygen and pH gradients in coral boundary layer - Martins et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Marine Biodiversity & Environment (MarBiE 2): Taxonomy of Marine Organisms - 200 page ebook - Nair et al (2024) Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi, India
- Lakshadweep: Widespread coral bleaching
- The Fourth Global Coral Bleaching Event: Where do we go from here? - Reimer et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Atmosphere-Ocean Processes Driving SST Jo et al (2024)
- Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change -Zhang et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Fisheries reach deep, but marine protection remains shallow - Jacquemont et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Aquaculture: food, climate change, biodiversity - Wong et al (2024) npj Ocean Sustain
- Kerala: Marine Fishes from Rocky Reefs - Thambi et al (2024) SSRN
- Planktivore and predator spatial distributions in an oceanic coral reef system (Maldives) - Skinner et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Coastal debris survey: Nicobar Islands, India. - Pratyush et al (2024)
- Maldives hit by climate change: Smaller fish & bleached corals (CNA) - CNA article & videos (4 June)
- Maldives Offshore Marine Spatial Planning [PDF] - by Dr Shaistha Mohamed [Noo Raajje] dated July 2023 (published June 2024)
- Coral propagation: Loss of thermotolerance following nursery year in situ - Alderdice et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- CoralSCOP: Segment any Coral Image on this Planet - Zheng et al (2024) IEEE/CVF Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- Aquarium Predator Fish Polypterus (East Java) [PDF] - Islamy et al (2024)
- Rubble persistence under ocean acidification threatened by accelerated bioerosion and lower-density coral skeletons Webb et al - (2024) Wiley
- Elasmobranchs: temporal trends at a remote island (E. Pacific) - Espinoza et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii): evolutionary history gene flow - Schmid et al (2024) Wiley
- Global impacts of marine heatwaves on coastal foundation species - Smith et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Moral responsibility to help low-income nations restore coral reefs
- Coral-grazing gastropods: diversity in shallow reefs Zainuddin et al (2024)
- Population and clonal structure of Acropora cf. hyacinthus to inform coral restoration practices (GBR) - Howlett et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Diving deep to escape the heat: mesophotic reefs as thermal refuges for New Zealand coastal fishes [PDF] Hiromi Emily Beran (2024)
- Mesophotic reefs as thermal refuges for New Zealand coastal fishes [PDF] - Hiromi Emily Beran (2024)
- GBR: 97% of coral dead at Lizard Island reef - new drone survey (Conversation, 26 June)
- GBR: ‘Most of it was dead’ in worst coral bleaching event - Guardian
- Maldives coral: Ocean acidification over 37 years (insights using boron isotopes) - Liu et al (2024) Chemical Geology
- Mass bleaching event is the worst on record (CNN) ... Since Jan-23, 72% of the planet’s reefs have bleached (surpassing the 65% during 2014-17).
- Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world’s coral reefs - Mellin et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- GBR: Drone mapping reveals mass mortality, post coral bleaching - Dr Karen Joyce (25 June)
- Tropical marine biodiversity: Cenozoic history - Tian et al (2024) Nature
- Green turtles (Chelonia mydas): Regional foraging areas (Seychelles) - Sanchez et al (2024) Biodivers Conserv
- Malaysia: Mass coral bleaching threatens marine biodiversity >50% of reefs affected
- Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi): group foraging behaviour (Maldives) Murray et al (2024) Behav Ecol Sociobiol
- Well-connected reefs have better chance to recover - Annalisa Bracco
- Fish size reductions: Impacts of ocean warming on hottest coral reefs - Johansen et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Research priorities to support coral reefs during rapid climate change - Fabricius et al (2024)
- Pelagic fish: Impacts of climate change on geographic distribution patterns (Southern Ocean) - Zhai et al (2024) Global and Planetary Change
- Seaweed farming in temperate waters: potential climate benefits - Bullen et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Global Ocean Biological Carbon Pump: Modeling Constraints - Doney et al (2024) Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Marine Fish: future trends in biomass distributions - Gordó-Vilaseca et al (2024) Nat Commun
- Fish-farm Tuna Tourism: swimming with the fishes - The Guardian, 17 July
- Future climate warming threatens coral reef function on World Heritage reefs (Australia) Quigley & Baird (2024) - author article: Conversation
- Spatial patterns of reef fishes and corals in thermally extreme waters (Qatar) - Bouwmeester et al (2024) Sec. Coastal Ocean Processes
- 🔥 Maldives: Coral Reef Restoration Monitoring Manual Montano et al (2022) - 92 page PDF download
- GIANT CORALS: share your sightings (Maldives)
- High coral heat tolerance at local-scale thermal refugia (Micronesia) Lachs et al (2024) - ID tolerant colonies within individual reefs
- Algal symbiont: Whole-genome duplication bolsters coral heat tolerance - Dougan et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Theonella conica (sponge): Hyperaccumulation of molybdenum - Shoham et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTs): larvae eat nitrogen-fixing Trichodesmium cyanobacteria - Mos et al (2024) Sci. Adv. - ABC News article & video (29 Sept)
- Marine Protected Areas (MPA): spillover benefits recreational fisheries - Franceschini et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Reef fish: The most at-risk species receive least attention - Becca Franks (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Reef fish: worldwide low human interest for the most at-risk - Mouquet et al (2024) Sci. Adv.
- Crown of Thorns (CoTs): outbreak in the Gulf of Oman Seveso et al (2024) Mar. Biodivers.
- Trimma (Teleostei: Gobiidae): New species (Seychelles) - Winterbottom et al (2024)
- Island Mass Effect: Kilometer-scale ocean processes (Maldives) - De Falco et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Deep-seabed mining and marine CO2 removal: parallel narratives - Lidström et al (2024) npj Ocean Sustain
- Corals that survive repeated thermal stress show signs of selection and acclimatization - McCarthy et al (2024)
- Coral Health Inferred from Benthic Foraminifers (Red Sea) - Öğretmen et al (2024) - excellent high-res ID image
- Farming Kelp (Saccharina latissima): Carbon sequestration - Canvin et al (2024) Appl Phycol
- Marine life under threat of more frequent coral bleaching (Hong Kong) - Ezra Cheung [SCMP]
- Coral reef benefits: A systematic SEEA-driven review - Yuan et al (2024)
- GBR: Highest ocean heat in four centuries - Henley et al (2024) Nature
- GBR: Temperature soars to 400-year high - Jeff Tollefson, Nature (7 Aug)
- GBR: Hottest ocean temperatures an ‘existential threat’ - Graham Readfearn (Guardian, 7 Aug)
- Resilience of turbid coral communities to marine heatwave - Zweifler et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Coral Restoration Strategy: On-shore (Florida) - Amy Green
- Reef Encounter magazine (July 2024) [PDF] - by International Coral Reef Society (77 pages)
- Coral bleaching events in Indian coral reefs: A systematic review - Thangadurai et al (2024.08 preprint) bioRxiv
- GBR: High coral cover amid intense heatwaves and bleaching? - Emslie et al (AIMS) at The Conversation
- GBR Annual Report: Coral Reef Condition 2023/24 (AIMS) - Dr Mike Emslie et al (2024) - impacts of mass coral bleaching 2024 yet to be determined
- GBR: Research team comes to terms with the shocking 30-year demise - by Dr Anya Salih
- Wave Energy Dissipation: Coral Reef Spur and Groove Morphology - Perris et al (2024) Geophysical Research
- Coralliophilinae (sea snails): evolution of corallivory - Nocella et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- 600-year-old coral: how the Pacific Ocean has changed since 1370 - D'Olivo et al (2024) in The Conversation
- 600-year-old coral: SST reconstruction of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation - D'Olivo et al (2024) Sci. Adv
- To Save Coral Reefs, Let’s Freeze Them - NYT essay, Prof Carly Kenkel
- Gobioid fishes (Gobiiformes): Annotated checklist (India) - Sreeraj & Sen (2024) Discovery
- GBR: juvenile coral assemblages (marine park & Coral Sea) - Burn et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Microplastic Interactions with Reef-Building Corals - Axworthy et al (2024)
- Florida: Only 23% of coral genotypes remain in the wild - Dana Williams, NOAA - PDF download
- Fisheries are in far worse shape than we thought - Graham Edgar, The Conversation
- Fisheries: Stock assessment models overstate sustainability - Edgar et al (2024) Science
- Green sea turtles: Impacts of contaminant exposure [PDF] - Caitlin Smith, for Doctor of Philosophy
- Thermal preconditioning delays coral bleaching (Maldives) - Madaschi et al (2024)
- Gastropod Diversity in Mangrove Habitats (Maldives) - Louis et al (2024)
- Growth Factors & Hormones: Effects on Corals - Danish et al (2024)
- Marine sponges: biomonitoring active pharmaceutical ingredients in coral reefs (Maldives) - Saliu et al (2024) Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Pregnant tiger sharks: solving the mystery (Maldives) - by Tim Kalvelage in Fuvahmulah, for The Guardian
- Scleractinian corals extend their vertical range to mesophotic depths - Pérez-Rosales et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Australia’s Draft Sustainable Ocean Plan [PDF]
- Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 (N. Malé Atoll, Maldives): Impact of the coral reef system - Lahcene et al (2024) Ocean & Coastal Management
- Coral disease prevalences at Thudufushi, Maldives (2010-2022) - Bises et al (2024) Dis Aquat Org (abstract only)
- Coral Reef Restoration Isn’t Enough (Florida) - excellent 5000-word photo essay (02-Sept) HuffPo by Chris D'Angelo & Jason Gulley
- Florida: The future of coral restoration after unprecedented marine heat wave of 2023 - NOAA (06 May)
- Coral settlement: experiments on substrate movement - Heyward et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- 🔥 Coral rubble dynamics in the Anthropocene and implications for reef recovery - Kenyon et al (2022)
- Cushion sea-star removal enhances coral restoration (Maldives) - Walker et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Coral Montastraea cavernosa: Induced sexual reproduction and bidirectional sex-change - Laforest et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Coral reefs: from short-term storm protection to long-term disequilibrium (Hawai’i) Bitterwolf et al (2024) Nature-Based Solutions vol6
- Coral propagules: Lipid composition & reproductive material in coral restoration nurseries - Roper et al (2024) Coral Reefs
- Sea anemone–algal symbiosis: altered by microhabitat and thermal tolerance - Ruggeri et al (2024) Ecology
- Pygmy Pipehorse (Cylix): new species [South Africa] - Short et al (2024) Ichthyology & Herpetology
- Manta and devil rays (Mobulidae): Persistent declines (Mozambique) - Venables et al (2024) Environ Biol Fish
- Aquaculture : Global Issues - Dunshea et al (2024) Animal Frontiers
- Aquaculture: comparative analysis of feed utilization (South Asia) - Giri (2024) Animal Frontiers
- Aquaculture: insect-based feed Selvaraj & Won (2024) Animal Frontiers
- Shark residency to coral reefs: reduced by environmental stress (Chagos) - Williamson et al (2024) Commun Biol - Sharks deserting coral reefs as oceans heat up (Damian Carrington, The Guardian, 09 Sept)
- Manta rays: A deep dive into their world - Narelle Bouveng (22 Aug) Australian Geographic
- Coral restoration: fishing lines & rope as coral stocking methods (Seychelles) - Dale et al (2024) Restoration Ecology
- Coral-killing Sponge (Terpios hoshinota): Spicules [PDF] - Hirose et al (2024) Zoological Studies 63:26
- Coral symbiosis: Not-so-mutually beneficial [PDF] - Mikhail V. Matz (2024) Current Biology
- Terpios hoshinota (sponge) ecology: 30 years’ observations (Baa Atoll, Maldives) - Allison (2024) Journal of Coral Reef Studies
- Outplant Survival and Growth of Six Caribbean Coral Species Juveniles - Little (2024)
- Coral Disease: Intervention Prolongs Colony Life - Kozachuk (2024)
- Microbial mat structures in anoxic conditions in a Maldivian Blue Hole (70m depth) - Doni (2024) - novel microbial taxa (Dehalococcoidales)
- Snorkeling Briefing Marine Content [PDF] - Sangkhaduang & Khuawaraphan (2024) - the importance of tour guide training
- Reef monitoring: UAV, satellite data, GIS (Greece) [PDF] - Nikolakopoulos (2024) SPIE
- Coral propagation: hypersalinity-induced coral micropropagates - Walton et al (2024)
- Coral skeletons (& algae) impair recovery following bleaching - Kopecky et al (2024) - article & interview (Tasoff, 26 Sept)
- Coral restoration: speculative science won’t save our reefs Streit et al (2024) The Conversation (29 July)
- Microplastics in deep/cold-water coral (Lophelia pertusa) in N. Atlantic - Mateos-Cárdenas et al (2024) Marine Pollution Bulletin
- CoTS benefit from degraded reefs & coral rubble - Wolfe & Byrne (2024) Marine Environmental Research - Sydney Uni article (10 Sept)
- Cumulative human impacts on global marine fauna - O’Hara et al (2024)
- Warming: total loss of productivity in a widespread photosymbiosis - Makin & Lowe (2024) - coral belaching implications
- Circadian migrations: crustaceans guided by their home chemical seascape - Derrien et al (2024)
- Commuting crustaceans (Gennaro Tomma, Science 17 Sept)
- Microplastics in coral skeletons (Thailand) Jandang et al (2024)
- White-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus) on Kurehdhoo (Kuredu, Lhaviyani Atoll) Maldives [PDF] - Marine Ornithology - A regionally significant population
- Coralx Foundation: Reef Restoration Report (2024.09)
- Reef Tourism: encourages climate action - Waters (et al) 2024 - Climate change engagement in vulnerable nature settings
- Foraminifera (Amphistegina lobifera): thriving and beach-building (Mediterranean) - Hallock et al (2024)
- Thermal tolerance of corals: widely distributed (GBR) - Denis et al (2024)
- Ocean acidification: recovery of coral holobionts from thermal stress (Hawaiʻi) Dobson et al (2024)
- Cnidarian polyps: Collective exploitation of large prey by group foraging - Gregorin et al (2024) Mar Biol
- Cnidarians: predation upon large animals (review) - Gregorin et al (2024) Hydrobiologia
- Coral recruits: high thermal tolerance to bleaching (Caribbean) - Miller (et al) 2024
- Fisheries management: food security in Maldives - Abdulla et al (2024)
- Fire corals: reproductive ecology (Red Sea) - Roth et al (2024)
- Coral reef monitoring: machine learning models (Red Sea) - Gapper et al (2024) Heliyon
- Reef Star: coral restoration on multiple metrics of habitat complexity - Vida et al (2024) - photogrammetry article by the authors (The Conversation, 23 Sept)
- Coral mucus: microbes in stressed corals Phartade et al (2024) PhD thesis
- Coral Reef Degradation: AI-Driven Assessment (Indian Ocean) Al Rammahi et al (2024) MSc thesis
- Tiger shark aggregation in Fuvahmulah, Maldives: world’s largest Vossgaetter et al (2024) Sci Rep
- Coral adaptation under ocean warming & acidification
- Humbug damselfish (Dascyllus aruanus): motion dazzle as defence strategy - Tosetto et al (2024) Peer J - Dazzling damselfish (25 Sept)
- Coral nursery for reef restoration (Lakshadweep) - Riyas et al (2024)
- Coral Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus): biogeographic barriers (Indo-Pacific) - Torres-García et al (2024)
- Microplastic pollution: surface waters & sediments of coral reefs (Tonga) [PDF] - Brereton (2024) MSc thesis
- Benthic Classifications (Meemu Atoll, Maldives) [PDF] - Matheena (2024)
- Corals (Stephanocoenia intersepta): shallow and mesophotic diversity (Florida) - Eckert et al (2024)
- Fisheries: sustainability for a fast-changing planet - Roberts et al (2024)
- Corals: heat tolerance varies considerably (GBR) - Naugle et al (2024)
- Coral recovery: mesoscale-driven connectivity patterns (Polynesia) - Lama et al (2024)
- Turtle hatchlings: observing pre-emergence life-stage with accelerometers - Dor et al (2024) Proc. R. Soc. - Swimming through sand (02 Oct) Lilly Matson (UNSW)
- Bottlenose dolphins: playful signals, rapid mimicry, smiling underwater - Maglieri et al (2024) iScience
- Coral genomes to combat bleaching - Sanger Institute (19 Sept)
- Coral propagation & outplanting: outcomes & cost-effectiveness when tourism-led (GBR) Scott et al (2024)
- Coral Reef Restoration Enterprises - Graf, Ileana LU (2023) MSc thesis - Strategy of businesses focusing on coral reef restoration
- Biodegradation of plastic by marine microbes - Syranidou et al (2019)
- Benthic marine algae: diversity & distribution (Maldives) [PDF] - Nicolai et al (2024)
- Plastic Policies in the Maldives - SWITCH Asia Publications (2024)
- Acropora divaricata presence within A.solitaryensis species complex (East-Asia) - Chow et al (2024)
- Whale Shark Shipping Collisions: increased climate-driven threats - Womersley et al (2024) - and article University of Southampton (7 Oct)
- Sea Turtle Foraging Grounds: global thermal vulnerability - Goudarzi et al (2024)
- Field Guide to Marine Macrophytes / Macroalgae (Kuwait) [PDF] - Al-Yamani et al (2024) 200-page ebook
- Plastic debris concentrations (SW Indian Ocean) - Thibault et al (2024)
- Seagrass Meadows (Thailand): carbon dioxide and methane emissions - Halim et al (2024)
- Coral responses to a catastrophic marine heatwave - Mellin et al (2024)
- Coral settler survival: grazing sea snails & food supplementation - Lippens & Banaszak (2024)
- Sedimentary assemblages: bioerosion of coral reefs - Rodriguez-Ruano et al (2024)
- Cushion seastar (Culcita novaeguineae): Corallivory on Hawaiian Reefs [PDF] - Dieguez (2024)
- Ocean Protection: +10% of fish biomass on coral reefs - Caldwell et al (2024): "30% by 2030"
- Deep-water Reef (NE Pacific): severe cold-water bleaching & mortality - Foreman et al (2024) - article: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (11 Oct)
- Coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves is enhanced by selective breeding - Humanes et al (2024) - article (14 Oct)
- Parrotfish Bioerosion: coral reef resilience - Molina-Hernández & Álvarez-Filip (2024)
- Coral reef benthic communities: responses to mass bleaching event (Red Sea) - Gonzalez et al (2024)
- Coral reef fish abundance: driven by environmental change & connectivity (W. Indian Ocean ) - Warmuth et al (2024) - article (18 Oct)
- Protecting 30% of coastal waters by 2030 - Rechberger et al (2024)
- Benthic foraminifera as bio-monitor (Red Sea) - Makled & Atiek (2024)
- Global coral bleaching event: largest on record - Reuters (18 Oct)
- Global coral bleaching: astonishing ocean heat - CNN (18 Oct)
- Replayed reef sounds induce settlement of coral larvae in aquaria & field - Aoki et al (2024) - WHOI article (22 Oct)
- Coral photosymbiosis on Mid-Devonian reefs (385m yrs ago) - Jung el at (2024) - MPIC article (23 Oct)
- Feeding Global Aquaculture (with wild fish) - Roberts et al (2024) - edu article (17 Oct)
- Coral dynamics: metacommunity modelling - Cresswell et al (2024)
- Giant manta ray (Mobula birostris): endangered species recovery plan - NOAA draft
- Fish: early life stages under ocean alkalinity - Goldenberg et al (2024)
- Coral Reefs: Is it time to give up trying to save them? NO! - By Lisa Carne (23 Oct 2024) Nature
- Coral reef habitat and microbial abundance: status on sponge-associated prokaryotic communities - Cleary et al (2024)
- Microplastics: contamination in coral species (S. China Sea) - Miskon et al (2024)
- Chafing behaviour of great barracudas on sea turtles triggers escape response of external parasites - Wiesinger et al (2024) - and 1 min video
- Coral thermal tolerance: quantification using photographic color analysis - Hackerott et al (2024)
- Coral carbonate production across depth (Chagos) - Pilly et al (2024)
- Predator-prey balance: cod (Gadus morhua) and capelin (Mallotus villosus) - Pednekar et al (2024) - article: Largest Ocean Predation Event Ever Observed
- Bleaching in massive Porites coral colonies (GBR) - Morais et al (2024)
- Coral bleaching study: ‘shocking’ damage, some regrowth (GBR) - ABC News (05 Nov)
- Sustainable-use marine protected areas: benefits to human nutrition - Viana et al (2024) - article, The Conversation (31 Oct): oceans intrinsically linked to human health
- Reef Adapt tool: climate-smart marine restoration decisions - Wood et al (2024) - video & article (31 Oct): Marine genetics to help restore coastlines
- Coral high molecular weight carbohydrates support opportunistic microbes - Thobor et al (2024)
- Foraminifera and sediments cored from Faanu Mudugau (Ari Atoll, Maldives) - Giraldo-Gómez et al (2024) Marine Geology
- Flow rates alter outcome of coral bleaching - Lentz et al (2024)
- Acropora pulchra: Host & Symbiont Physiology During Wound Regeneration Under Warming Conditions - Munk (2024)
- Coral reef vulnerability: Underlying drivers to bleaching (Mesoamerican Reef) - Muñiz-Castillo et al (2024)
- Sea turtles in the Anthropocene [PDF] - Davenport (2024)
- Bivalve species responses to ocean acidification and temperature conditions (NW Atlantic) - McMahon et al (2024)
- Making Ocean Investment Count - Drs Jupiter & Darling (30 Oct)
- Reef fish running out of time to recover (GBR) - AIMS (08 Nov)
- Deep-sea coral symbionts discovered (‘Oceanoplasmataceae’): marine bacteria with severely reduced genomes - Vohsen et al (2024)
- Reef visitors’ observation of assisted coral recovery devices in situ reduces concern about their use - Curnock et al (2024)
- Coral larvae increase nitrogen assimilation to stabilize algal symbiosis and combat bleaching - Huffmyer et al (2024)
- “World’s Largest” Coral Discovered in Solomon Islands - Nat Geo (14 Nov)
- Reef carbonate budget enhancement through coral restoration - Esplandiu et al (2024)
- Acropora palmata restoration & microbiome (Florida) - Rosales et al (2024)
- Nudibranch: remarkable discovery of new deep sea species (Bathydevius caudactylus) - Robison & Haddock (2024) - article & video (MBARI, 12 Nov)
- Mangrove vulnerability and blue carbon storage (Indonesia) - Analuddin et al (2024)
- 40%+ of coral species face extinction – IUCN Red List - IUCN (13 Nov)
- Bycatch of Sharks: Technical Mitigation Techniques for Reduction - Drynan & Baker (2024) CMS
- Plastic Pollution: Global producer responsibility - Cowger et al (2024)
- Symbiodiniaceae phenotypic traits as bioindicators of acclimatization after coral transplantation - Anthony et al (2024) - "Coral paling was best correlated with increased fluorescence intensity from antioxidant-associated pigments"
- Reef fish communities: assembly rules along the depth gradient - Pinheiro et al (2023)
- Reefs: managing nutrition-biodiversity trade-offs - Maire et al (2024)
- Octopuses: High energetic cost of color change - Sonner & Onthank (2024)
- Lakshadweep coral reefs: lead pollution - by Sahana Ghosh (14 Nov)
- GBR: coral mortality due to bleaching and cyclones (AIMS) - article: in parts, the worst coral loss (on record) (ABC, 19 Nov)
- Modified Structures Supporting the Rehabilitation of Reefs (Vietnam) - El Rahimi et al (2024)
- Human activities: risk to tropical marine ecosystems (SE Asia) - Culhane et al (2024) - article (Plymouth Uni, 21 Nov)
- Coral Reefs & Fishes: Implications for Sustainable Fisheries (Mauritius) - Ricot et al (2024)
- Coral reef condition at different trophic status in marginal waters (Indonesia) - Irwan et al (2024)
- Water quality assessment in coral reef garden (Bali, Indonesia) - Badriana et al (2024)
- NOAA Cruise Report: MDBC Expedition ‘Nancy Foster’ (2023) [PDF] - Battista et al (Nov 2024)
- Microplastic exposure: Coral reef attributes - Hankins et al (2024)
- Coral colonies: responses to thermal anomalies (Pacific) - Khen et al (2024)
- Coral gardening: assessment of the 4th recorded bleaching (Anantara, Maldives) - Oriana Migliaccio (2024)
- Bio-monitoring of coral reef health (FoRam Index): benthic foraminifera (Egypt) - Makled & Atiek (2024)
- Sea anemones: whole-body tissue remodeling during local regeneration - Cheung et al (2024) - article: how they stay ‘in shape’ (29 Nov)
- Saving coral reefs: significance and biotechnological approaches for coral conservation - Cecchini et al (2024)
- Global Fisheries: Quantifying the Externalities from Open Access [PDF] - Elliot Kang
- Aquatic noise reduction as a wild animal welfare intervention - Written by: Saulius Simcikas
- Coral reef potential connectivity in SW Indian Ocean - Vogt-Vincent et al (2024)
- Population genetics & oceanographic models: strong connectivity among coral reefs (Seychelles) - Burt et al (2024) - one million square kilometre 'Coral Superhighway' (12 Mar, BBC)
- Coral Bleaching: A Maldives Case Study (Ari Atoll) [PDF] - Ashwin Kumar - understanding reefs by remote sensing
- Sharks, rays, chimaeras: global status (IUCN) - Orlov et al (2024)
- Climate refugia may endure into the future (GBR) - Sun et al (2024)
- Reef Fish Communities: No Sign of Homogenisation When Warming - Silva et al (2024)
- Calcification & depth preferences of plankton (Trilobatus trilobus) [Atlantic] - Stergios D. Zarkogiannis (2024) - article (4 Dec): Ocean density drives planktonic carbon capture
- Damselfish: new species in Maldives – Chromis abadhah (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) - Rocha et al (2024)
- Facial recognition in teleost fishes: an early evolutionary origin - Kohda et al (2024)
- Corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats - Gutierrez et al (2024) - Half of Atlantic reef-building corals
- Coral reef patterning via spatial self-organization - Xi et al (2024)
- Hong Kong Reef Check Results (AFCD, 2024) - 5 month project by Agriculture & Fisheries Dept
- Mesoamerican Reef Report Card 2024 - Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras - Mongabay News: "poor reef health" but hope remains
- AI-based coral species discrimination: Siderastrea (Atlantic Complex) - Barbeitos et al (2024)
- Overfishing halves shark and ray populations since 1970 - Finucci et al (2024) Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays
- Parental care reduces parasite-induced mortality in a coral reef fish - Grutter et al (2024) - article (12 Dec): Helicopter parenting protects baby reef fish
- Kemp’s ridley turtles: Cold-stunned and stranded (climate change) [USA] - AP News (04 Dec)
- Zooplankton Carbon Pumps: organoclay flocculation exports carbon from the sea surface - Sharma et al (2024) - Uni article (10 Dec)
- CORDAP: Technology Roadmaps and Scoping Studies - Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform
- Coral fertilization: Allee effects limit success - Mumby et al (2024) - article: Corals depend on near neighbours to reproduce (uq.edu 17 Dec)
- Optimization of swim depth across diverse taxa during horizontal travel - Stokes et al (2024) - article: Marine Animals Save Energy by Swimming in a Depth ‘Sweet Spot’ (Swansea.ac 16 Dec)
- Restoring coral reefs at scale: Value from collaborative sustainable business models - Kong et al (2024)
- Quantifying 3D coral reef structural complexity using AI and 2D drone imagery - Suan et al (2024)
- Humpback whales: health assessment using drone tech (Hawaiʻi) - van Aswegen et al (2024) Maternal investment, body condition, calf growth
- Fisheries: Transitioning from Vulnerability to Viability (Sri Lanka) - Gamage & Madhubhashini (2024)
- Reef Degradation: Impacts on Commercial Fisheries - Liu et al (2024)
- Galaxea fascicularis coral: Key Proteins Related to Gamete Maturation and Fertilization - Zhou et al (2024)
- Turtle conservation: lifetime researcher Dr Col Limpus - ABC News (24 Dec)
- Coral Reefs: Artificial Light Increases Nighttime Prevalence of Predatory Fishes - Weschke et al (2024)
- Abalones at risk: A global Red List assessment of Haliotis in a changing climate - Peters et al (2024)
- Elasmobranch body size: a review of current evaluating techniques - Ferreira et al (2024)
- Coral reef rehabilitation using nano-engineered artificial reefs (following Hurricane Irma) - Higgins et al (2024)
- Coral recruits demonstrate thermal resilience - Lamb et al (2024)
- Cryophysiology of coral microfragments: effects of chilling and cryoprotectant toxicity - Lager et al (2024)
- Nudibranchia (Aeolidina, Fionidae ): the systematics of soft-sediment (Indo-Pacific) - Kim et al (2024) - "Stirring up the muck"
- Corals reponse to acute heat stress: Interspecies differences - Da-Anoy et al (2024)
- Sea urchin (Tripneustes ventricosus): Effects of temperature and size class on gut digesta microbiota - Rodríguez-Barreras et al (2024)
- Biodiversity Rich: Underexplored Chilean Coastline - Schmidt Ocean Institute: methane-seep ecosystems in underwater canyons
- Coral subpopulations: Post-disturbance recovery dynamics - Torres et al (2024)
- Reef-based mass coral larval culture and restoration methods - Prof Peter L Harrison (2024)
- Reef-building corals: Interspecific hybridisation increases genetic diversity - Lamb et al (2024)
- Coral spawn slicks for mass production of larvae and settled corals for restoration - Langley et al (2024)
- Reef location and season (not substrate contour/composition) affect coral recruitment - dela Cruz & Harrison (2024)
- Shallow-mesophotic depth gradient (Reunion): heterogeneity of macro-benthic communities - Hoarau et al (2024)
- Mass coral bleaching: Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal - Graham et al (2024)
- Stony coral tissue loss disease: in situ degradation of dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae - Beavers et al (2023)
- Stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome: Meta-analysis - Rosales et al (2023)
- Coral’s synergistic response to climate stressors - Dilworth et al (2024)
- Coral histology: declines in tissue integrity during a marine heatwave despite differences in bleaching severity - Kruse et al (2025)
- Paleo reefs provide clues for contemporary climate-change refugia - van Woesik (2025)
- Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration - Benkwitt et al (2025)
- Symbiodiniaceae: Genetic Differences in Acropora Colonies (Ningaloo, Australia) - Eriksson et al (2025)
- Sea Turtles: Plastic Ingestion (Indonesia) [PDF] - Purnama et al (2025)
- Microplastics & anthropogenic particles: widespread in seafood - Traylor et al (2024)
- Coral Reefs: Short-term stress testing predicts subsequent natural bleaching variation - Caruso et al (2025)
- Reef fish: diversity correlates with coral assemblage shifts (GBR) - González-Barrios et al (2025)
- Fish grazers to improve coral aquaculture - Neil et al (2025)
- Coral Symbionts: Community Changes Confer Fitness Benefits for Larvae - Olivares‐Cordero et al (2025)
- Coral diversity: symbioses, physiology, response to thermal challenge - Aichelman et al (2025)
- Heat stress: effects on growth rates of massive corals and damselfish (Red Sea) - Storlazzi et al (2025)
- Coral recruits: Local alkalinity enhancement increases survivorship - Ruszczyk et al (2025)
- Porites lutea: Metatranscriptomics sheds light on “who is doing what” microbiome - Tandon et al (2025)
- Scyphozoan jellyfish: Temporal drivers of abundance & community - Syazwan et al (2025)
- population blooms in tropical shallow waters
- Remote underwater video for monitoring reef fish spawning aggregations - Saulnier et al (2025)
- Corallivorous gastropod (Drupella cornus): High levels of genetic connectivity - Haslam et al (2025)
- Manta ray (Mobula alfredi and M. birostris): population demographics (S.Africa) - Carpenter et al (2025)
- New species of perchlet (Maldives): Plectranthias raki (Teleostei, Serranidae) - Shepherd et al (2025)
- Microplastics : Long-term effects on the behaviour and physiology of reef-building corals - Marvin Rades (2024)
- Benthic habitat mapping: integrating satellite and side-scan sonar data - Yeong et al (2024)
- Sea Cucumbers (Holothuroidea): revered and reviled, their vanishing plight - Mercier (2025)
- Remora species associated with sicklefin devil rays (Mobula tarapacana) - Castellano-González et al (2025)
- Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs (GBR) - Byrne et al (2025)
- Living Coral Displays, Research Labs, Biobanks: Importance for Chemodiversity & Biodiscovery - Calado et al (2025) preprint
- Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites - Lewis et al (2025) - article (23 Jan): New coral mobility mechanisms uncovered - and videos
- Benthic mud content: indicator of coral cover & ecosystem recovery on turbid coral reefs - Joppien & Morgan (2025)
- Scleractinian corals: Quantifying diversity & growth form distribution (Egypt) - Koch et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration can reduce coastal contamination and pollution hazards - Rottmueller et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration: A user’s guide to terminologies - Suggett et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration: cost-effective nature-based solution to protect vulnerable coastal populations - Storlazzi et al (2025)
- Submarine groundwater discharge: effects on organismal and community metabolism on coral reefs - Barnas et al (2025)
- Fish Larval Assemblage: Seasonal and Interannual Variability (Pacific) - Gallego-Zerrato et al (2025)
- Biofilm adaptation impacts larval settlement in diverse coral species - O’Brien et al (2025)
- Plankton: novel methods alongside long-term monitoring - Holland et al (2025) - article (29 Jan): Advances in plankton science
- Sea turtle populations: Status, trends & conservation - Hays et al (2025)
- Sponge Captive Husbandry: Methods, Husbandry, Resilience, Genetic Diversity [PDF] - CHAKRABORTY (2024)
- Pink sea fan (Eunicella verrucosa): Reproductive phenology and sexual propagation for coral restoration - Egger (2025) preprint
- Optimizing in-vitro fertilization in four Caribbean coral species - Chamberland et al (2025)
- Coral recovery following severe disturbance: Early life stage bottleneck - Speare et al (2025)
- Fish biodiversity in a subtropical coral reef using eDNA metabarcoding and baited cameras - Noyes et al (2025)
- Spawning cues (Acropora coral): moonlight-darkness dynamics - de la Torre Cerro et al (2025)
- Coral Reef Management: Community Composition & Successional Theory - McCarthy et al (2025)
- Genus-scale taxonomic resolution: coral demographics (Pocillopora) - Hsiao et al (2025)
- Symbionts: development of broadcast spawning reef-building coral (Dipsastraea) [PDF] - Guo et al (2025)
- Sea cucumber (Holothuria arguinensis): Reproductive biology and environment (Morocco) - Haddi et al (2025)
- Extreme weather decimates turtle hatchling populations (Australia) - ABC News (4 Feb)
- Mass Die-Off Events in Swarming Hyperiid Amphipods - Guy-Haim et al (2025) - Beach strandings of small marine crustaceans
- Florida’s Coral Reefs: wrecked by climate change - by Benji Jones (4 Feb) VOX - Why aren’t corals making babies?
- Spawning and larval development of mesophotic octocoral (Swiftia exserta) in aquaria - Johnstone et al (2025)
- Chagos Archipelago: Coral bleaching & mortality - Mark Spalding (2025)
- CoralBleachRisk — Global Projections of Coral Bleaching Risk in the 21st Century - Mellin et al (2025) - CoralBleachRisk website
- Tracking over 30 years of coral reef infrastructure degradation in Barbados - Griffith et al (2025)
- Loss of plasticity under predator invasion and warming oceans - Corbett & Trussell (2025) Evolution in changing seas
- Satellite-Tracked Reef Manta Rays (Mobula alfredi) [Indonesia] - Edy Setyawan et al (2025)
- Spatial variation in benthic community composition on a coral reef following a marine heatwave - Hansen et al (2025) preprint
- Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA): zooplankton abundance and coral feeding - Grottoli et al (2025)
- Microplastic Pollution: Effects on Marine Organisms and Impact on Human Health - Akbari & Jaafari (2025)
- Warm-water coral reef tipping points - Pearce-Kelly et al (2025)
- Coral settlement patterns: biological and environmental factors - Baker et al (2025)
- Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery (GBR) - Bode et al (2025)
- Settlement of coral larvae: role of micro-organisms - Turnlund et al (2025)
- Coral (Acropora) larvae scotophobic response: body contraction & ciliary arrest - Brodrick et al (2025) preprint
- Coral Reservoirs with Restoration Potential (Tropical Pacific) - Quirama et al (2025)
- Australian Reef Restoration & Adaptation Program: Observations & Lessons - Baresi et al (2025)
- Anthropogenic Impacts on Coral-Algal Interactions - Ho et al (2025)
- Sea turtle species: Heavy metal concentrations suggest pollution risk varies (Atlantic) - Chan (2025) et al
- Tracing Wave Induced Flow Field Surrounding Reef Balls - Alexis Scheele (2025) thesis
- Coral Reef Surveillance with Machine Learning: A Review - Chowdhury et al (2025)
- Marine fishery species: climate vulnerability assessment (California) - Frawley et al (2025)
- Shallow seamounts are “oases” for pelagic predators - Weber et al (2025)
- Sea Turtle Photo Identification: A Practical Guide - Papafitsoros et al (2025)
- Turtles: Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception - Goforth et al (2025) - CNN article (12 Feb)
- Anemonefish use sialic acid metabolism to avoid giant sea anemone stinging - Roux et al (2025) - article (15 Feb) Okinawa Uni
- Mariana Islands: New records of fishes - Myers et al (2025)
- Marine heatwave is killing huge numbers of fish (Australia) - Pinter, Rayson, Jones (29 Jan) The Conversation
- Coral Reefs Face a Deadly Mass Bleaching - interview with Prof Terry Hughes - by Meghan Bartels (17 Apr) SciAm
- Macroalgae shape chemical and microbial waterscapes on coral reefs - Chloé Pozas-Schacre et al (2025)
- Herbivore functions on resilience of coral reefs: implications of spatial covariation - Cook et al (2025)
- Coral connections within reefs underlie reef resilience and persistence - Grimaldi et al (2024) - AIMS (9 Jan): reef recovery linked to close neighbors
- Coral bleaching surveys: French Antilles (2023/24) [PDF] - ifrecor.fr
- Corals could die after widespread bleaching (Ningaloo, Australia) - Donna Lu (18 Feb) Guardian
- Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers - Tomasek et al (2025) - article & video (19 Feb) Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Benthic foraminiferal communities: A framework for biological trait analysis - Guy-Haim & Bouchet (2025)
- Turtles change nesting patterns in response to climate change - 2 papers (2025): Rickwood et al - and - Witt et al
- Reef fishes: Continuity in morphological disparity across evolutionary scales - Donati et al (2025)
- Do Whale Sharks Select for Specific Environments to Give Birth? - Womersley et al (2025)
- Coral reef bleaching: Record marine heatwave smashing W. Australia’s coastline (Ningaloo) - ABC News (20 Feb) Peter de Kruijff
- Sand mining: a growing threat to marine life - after Torres et al (2025)
- Rethinking atoll futures: local resilience to global challenges - Steibl et al (2024) - the geophysical processes that control atoll island accretion are being impacted on global and local scales.
- Sponge species: dispersal of Geodia and six new tetractinellid descriptions (Hawaii) - Nunley et al (2025)
- Reef-building corals act as long-term sink for microplastic - Reichert et al (2021)
- A comparison of in situ and on-vessel larval rearing for coral seeding - Randall et al (2025)
- Genomic prediction of symbiotic interactions between two Endozoicomonas clades and their coral host, Acropora loripes - Gotze et al (2025) preprint
- Reef-building coral (Montipora capitata): Positive associations between growth and thermal tolerance - Walker et al (2025) preprint
- Comparing richness and abundance of cryptobenthic reef fishes in coral and rocky microhabitats - Jáquez-Domínguez et al (2025)
- An abundant mutualist can protect corals from multiple stressors - Renzi et al (2025) - article (24 Feb): Heat-Stressed Reefs May Benefit From Coral-Dwelling Crabs
- Assisted Gene Flow for Elkhorn Coral Conservation (Florida) - CRC Genetics Working Group
- Predator removals, trophic cascades and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish on coral reefs - Meekan et al (2025) - Reef survival? Reduce fishing pressure.
- Coral recruits: Interactions among wildtype and heat-evolved photosymbionts - Ivory et al (2025)
- Coral rubble: Trajectories and agents of binding (Maldives) - Kenyon et al (2025): recovery of rubble-dominated coral reefs
- Cleaner wrasse: Alteration of cognition and brain morphology under marine heatwaves - Pereira et al (2025)
- Seeded Acropora digitifera corals survive best on wave-exposed reefs with grazing from small fishes - Whitman et al (2025)
- Deep reef sessile communities: distribution patterns under climate disturbances - Wong et al (2025)
- Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea - Gokul et al (2025)
- Iron enrichment: effects on corals competing with macroalgae and zoantharians - Grillo et al (2025)
- Coral survivorship: wild larval assemblages on coral seeding devices - Waters et al (2025)
- First spawning record of Pavona maldivensis observed in the Red Sea - Garcias-Bonet et al (2025)
- Artificial Reefs: Effects on Wave Transformation and In-Canopy Flow (Maldives) - K. Albers (2025): Insights from Large-Scale Wave Flume Experiments of a Fringing Reef
- Innovative chips for coral cultivation: flexibility and applications - Chuang et al (2025)
- Symbiont expulsion: coral species-dependence, symbiont load, photosynthesis (Caribbean) - Yeager et al (2025)
- Coral reefs restoration initiatives: ten years building hope (Costa Rica) - Alvarado et al (2025)
- Crustose coralline algae (reef-associated): Molecular diversity [Indonesia] - Ramos et al (2025)
- Whale watching vessels: Impacts on humpback whales, compliance with voluntary guidelines (Iceland) - Vatcher et al (2025)
- Kemp’s ridley: Study & Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle - Smithsonian (7 Mar) Lauren Owens Lambert (bioGraphic)
- Macroalgae and mobile reef invertebrates face high extinction risk - Johnson et al (2025)
- Coastal urbanization-related stressors affect fish herbivory (Indonesia) - Estradivari et al (2025)
- Growth & Survival of Pocillopora spp. Fragments on Coral Tree & Coral Table (Indonesia) - Iriani et al (2025)
- Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems - Roman et al (2025) - article UVM (10 Mar): The Great Whale Pee Funnel
- Fish calls within diverse coral reef soundscapes - McCammon et al (2025) - ‘Fishial’ recognition of reef sounds using neural networks
- Corals: Diseases and compromised health conditions (Mauritius) - Shakeel et al (2025)
- Larval dispersal for fish populations and fisheries on coral reefs - Tong et al (2025)
- Protein signatures predict coral resilience and survival to thermal bleaching events - Nunn et al (2025)
- No longer left on the shore – RahVeshi Outreach Programme (Maldives) - Jasmine Corbett, Manta Trust
- Culturing coral larvae with food supplements enhances larval size and settlement - Rodd et al (2025)
- Crown-of-thorns sea star populations: outbreaks modulated by lower trophic interactions (crabs) - Wolfe et al (2025)
- Algal blooms: extreme North Atlantic Oscillation event drove the pelagic Sargassum tipping point - Jouanno et al (2025) - Carlyn Scott (13 Mar) - key drivers: wind, currents, nutrients.
- Understanding and improving sustainable use of coral reef resources - Mandal & Banerjee (2025)
- Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata): nesting, foraging, migratory routes (Caribbean) - Dunbar et al (2025)
- Coral symbiosis changes underpin seasonal trophic plasticity in reef corals - Chei et al (2025)
- Blue growth: inclusive & sustainable economy (Bay of Bengal) - Amarasinghe et al (2025)
- Reef fish early life stages: In situ estimation of active dispersal abilities - Ruiz et al (2025) - incl Goidhoo Atoll, Maldives
- Artificial structures can facilitate rapid coral recovery under climate change - Tanaya et al (2025)
- Coastal business perception of coral value and payment for coral restoration - Carlson et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration to mitigate coastal flooding as sea levels rise - Toth et al (2023)
- Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ocean warming - Gove et al (2023)
- Changing role of coral reef marine reserves in a warming climate - Graham et al (2020)
- Idiosyncratic Recovery Patterns in Coral Reefs of the Maldives Following Climate Disturbance - Donati et al (2025) - full PDF version
- Internet of Animals: Biologging as a platform for resolving ocean environmental issues - Iwata & Akamatsu (2025) - article (Kobe Uni): Marine animals help solve ocean issues
- Algal blooms : ssRNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis (Florida) - Lim et al (2025) - article (20 Mar): viruses identified in red tide blooms for the first time
- Coral Settlement: Design and Fabrication of Bio-Enhancing Surfaces - Despina Linaraki (2025)
- Clownfish (Amphiprion percula): Optimizing reproductive performance with artificial substrates - Iftahuddin et al (2025)
- Environmental drivers of genetic adaptation in two corals from the Florida Keys - Black et al (2025)
- Whale Shark Conservation: A social-economic analysis of marine tourism (Indonesia) - Setiadi et al (2025)
- Acropora aff. divaricata distinction within the Acropora cf. solitaryensis complex (East Asia) - Chow et al (2025)
- Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef: ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events - The Guardian (22 Mar 2025)
- ReefSeed: New portable system to aid coral reef restoration (Maldives) - AIMS (20 Mar)
- Sea turtle crowdsourcing conservation: residency, foraging grounds, threats (Taiwan) - Fong et al (2025)
- Coral larvae: chemotactic behaviors & settlement cues (Caribbean) - Deshpande et al (2025)
- Seagrass: Societal value from historical to contemporary perspectives - Foster et al (2025)
- Sharks: Seasonality, trends and co-occurrence in a top predator assemblage - Balchin et al (2025)
- Sea turtle incubation durations: increasing despite a warming climate (USA) - Ware et al (2025)
- Cuttlefish: Adaptive motion camouflage - Santon et al (2025)
- Reef-building coral species: First reference genomes – Leptoseris cf. scabra & Montipora cf. grisea - Radice et al (2025)
- Marine Invertebrates Hotspot Discovered in Guinea-Bissau - Moura et al (2025)
- Acropora cervicornis: resistance to elevated nutrients or disease, but not both (Florida) - Palacio-Castro et al (2025) - article (26 Mar): coral restoration & survival
- Bridging the gap: Restoring the future of coral reefs - Igor Pessoa (2025)
- Microbiome Communities: Establishing Process of an Epilithic Algal Matrix in a Fringing Reef - Zhang et al (2025
- Coral recruitment rate predictors: Current velocity, water quality, benthic taxa (GBR) - Drake et al (2025)
- Coral Diversity & Reef Complexity: Photogrammetry & Data Extraction (Galápagos) - Yuval et al (2025) preprint
- Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation: 42nd Annual Symposium (NOAA) - Whittock et al (2025)
- Coral Reef Monitoring: Machine Learning (Earth Observation Time-Series Data) - by AlZayer et al (2025)
- Proactive Coral Reef Restoration Using Thermally Tolerant Corals (Hawai‘i) - Ho‘opai-Sylva et al (2025)
- Health status of anthozoans: anthropic impact and climate change (Mediterranean) [PDF] - Jacopo et al (2025)
- Corals’ thermally variable stress-hardening: molecular responses (Caribbean) - DeMerlis et al (2025)
- Drivers of willingness to pay among scuba divers (GBR) - Costa et al (2025)
- Cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis: primarily determined by symbiont cell-cycle arrest - Gorman et al (2025)
- Microplastic impacts on reef-building corals: chain scission products released by weathering - Isa et al (2025)
- Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): post-release changes in diving behavior and activity (Mexico) - Manning et al (2025)
- Health and Disease Assessment of Shallow-water Anthozoans (Italy) [PDF] - Jacopo et al (2025) - 5 chapters, 180pp
- Thirty years of coral bleaching: degree heating week indices (SW Atlantic) - da Silva (2025)
- Alternative splicing in a coral during heat stress acclimation and recovery - Baliga et al (2025) preprint
- Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi-stressor environment - Solomon et al (2025)
- Employing invertebrates to restore herbivory on coral reefs (Caribbean) - Wilson et al (2025)
- Rearing techniques for sexually propagated corals (Caribbean) - Nixon et al (2025)
- Bioluminescent Events: Curated Database of Milky Seas - Hudson & Miller (2025) - article (9 Apr) - prediction of rare milky seas
- Restoration of octocoral (Corallium rubrum) drives rapid reef recovery - Zentner et al (2025)
- Bleaching susceptibilities to heat stress: eight species of subtropical urban corals - Yeung et al (2025)
- Coral-Associated Microorganisms: Novel Insights and Genomic Characterization (Maldives) - Palma Esposito et al (2025) - Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and UV-Protectant Activities
- Microbial Community Metabolism of Coral Reef Exometabolomes - Quinlan et al (2025)
- Artificial reef structural complexity: fish assemblage composition - Marshall et al (2025)
- Genetic structure of mesophotic and shallow Acropora aculeus (Australia) - Hernandez-Agreda et al (2025)
- Sea Turtle Shells: Armor and Efficiency - by Gisele Galoustian (8 Apr)
- Coral restoration won’t save the world’s reefs - by Corey J. A. Bradshaw (8 Apr) - Clelia Mulà et al (Flinders)
- Coral diseases and compromised health (Bawean Island, Indonesia) - Asadi et al (2025)
- Phoenix effect: rare occurrences in Porites & Montipora following marine heatwave mortality (Hawaii) - Jones & Barott (2025)
- Seagrass sod transplantation: preventing destruction of meadows (coastal construction) - Descamp et al (2025) - University of Liège article (9 Apr)
- Assisted gene flow: enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera - Macadam et al (2025)
- Coral Restoration: Mitigating Algal Competition with Fouling-Prevention Coatings - Karimi et al (2025)
- Acute heat stress and the extirpation of Acropora palmata (Florida) - Thompson et al (2025)
- Remote Sensing: Trends in Coral Cover (GBR) - Rivera et al (2025)
- Marine turtles: Updated global conservation status and priorities - Wallace et al (2025) - IUCN MTSG CPP
- Coral Reef Benthic Communities: Temporal Dynamics & Recovery Patterns Following 2016 Bleaching (Maldives) [PDF] - Eva Germani (2025)
- Coral Grow-Out: Integrated Aquaculture Approach - Neil et al (2025)
- Sea turtles: behavioral responses to gillnet fishing gear - Reavis et al (2025)
- Sea Turtle Hospital: Inside the World’s Largest (Texas) - by Amanda Ogle (1 Mar)
- Coral bleaching: 80%+ of the world’s reefs hit by worst global event on record - by Graham Readfearn (23 April Ther Guardian
- Sustainable Practices and Environmental Policies in Maldives Resorts - Galli et al (2025) preprint
- Stony coral (Acropora muricata): single-cell transcriptomic exploration of regenerative dynamics - Han et al (2025)
- REEF ENCOUNTER 56 (Vol. 39 | No. 2) March 2025 - Newsletter of the International Coral Reef Society (since 1983)
- Corals in a degraded environment: A reproductive and trophic analysis - Short et al (2025)
- Coral survival on seeding devices: Sea-weeding benefits diminish after one year - Smith et al (2025)
- Ex Situ Thermal Preconditioning Modulates Coral Physiology and Enhances Heat Tolerance (Multispecies Restoration) - Ferrara et al (2025)
- Biodiversity and biogeography of zooxanthellate soft corals across the Indo-Pacific - McFadden et al (2025)
- Coral Reefs in the Red Sea: status review - Hassien M. Alnashiri (2025)
- Sea Turtles: Low growth rates at high populations - Mortimer et al (2025)
- Marine Nematodes: first comprehensive dataset of functional traits [MarNemaFunDiv] - Daché et al (2025)
- Seeing Halos: Patterns Around Coral Reefs May Signal Resilience (GBR) - Ong et al (2025) - article (Dartmouth.edu, 8 May)
- Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Bentley et al (2025) - article (UQ.edu, 9 May) - and - MiCO Database
- Does the Maldives have a shark problem? - by Hassan Moosa (local news, 7 May) - Rise in shark incidents
- Hydrodynamic responses and hazard potential: coral reef characteristics - Villarroel-Lamb et al (2025)
- Drifting fish aggregating devices: The global footprint - Schiller et al (2025)
- Coral harvesting is big business - by Angela Heathcote (ABC, 10 May) - Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is chipped away to build private aquariums
- Green sea turtles: largest gathering ever recorded (GBR) - by Rebecca Manzi (18 Apr)
- Seagrass meadows vital for atoll survival (Maldives) - by Aishath Alhaan Shaheen (11 May, local news)
- Coral spawning: Duration of bundle release by Acropora aff. tenuis corals in the field - Suzuki et al (2025) preprint
- Crustose coralline algae holobionts enhance gorgonian larval settlement under climate change - Manea et al (2025) preprint
- Differential effects of nutrients and consumer pressure on sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.) - Burgess et al (2025)
- Sea Turtle Photo Identification: facial side similarities to improve AI-driven systems - Adam et al (2025)
- Coral settlement enhanced by biomimetic chemical microhabitats - Kundu et al (2025)
- Buoyancy Syndrome and Entanglement Disorders in Sea Turtles (Indian Ocean) - Polyak et al (2025) ORP
- Watch cuttlefish communicate — with enthusiastic gestures - by Christie Wilcox (Science, 9 May)
- Brooding and parthenogenesis enhance the success of the coral Porites astreoides relative to Orbicella annularis - Levitan et al (2025)
- Jellyfish fisheries in southern Asia - Karunarathne & Karunarathne (2025)
- Green sea turtles: Population structure at a foraging ground (Persian Gulf) - Pilcher et al (2025)
- Green sea turtles: Immunogenetic diversity and transcriptomic response to fibropapillomatosis (Hawaii) - Adkins et al (2025)
- Sea turtles swim continuously during homing movements - Luschi et al (2025)
- Coral bleaching (spatially restricted): Ecological manifestation of within-colony heterogeneity - Voolstra et al (2025)
- Coral restoration: Enhancing structural connectivity (landscape ecology perspective) - Birkart et al (2025)
- Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations - Mulla et al (2025)
- Ningaloo: This ancient Australian reef is sending a silent distress call - photo/video story by CNN
- Bleaching responses in tropical Scleractinian corals: Heterotrophy of particulate organic matter subsidies - Love et al (2025)
- Coral attachment techniques: Seeding unit deployment cost and performance - Quiroz et al (2025)
- Coastal seawater turbidity and thermal stress control growth of Porites corals (Fiji) - Samperiz et al (2025)
- Coral reef fish assemblages: Scale and the spatiotemporal dynamics (GBR) - Ceccarelli et al (2025)
- Bacterial diversity in Acropora pharaonis: Coral health and growth anomalies - Thangadurai et al (2025)
- Genetic diversity and structure of Pocillopora spp. corals (Costa Rica) - Hidalgo-Sánchez et al (2025)
- Heat-tolerant algal symbionts may prevent extirpation of Acropora palmata (Florida) during intensifying marine heatwaves - Karp et al (2025)
- Clown anemonefish shrink to survive heat stress and social conflict - Versteeg et al (2025) - author article (21 May, The Conversation)
- Coral fertilisation kinetics: models for broadcast spawning corals (Acropora) - Buccheri et al (2025)
- Color correction imaging technique (“SeaSplat”) for underwater scenes - by Jennifer Chu (MIT, 20 May)
- Climate Skeptic Debater for climate change arguments (ChatGPT) - by Andrew Dessler
- Turf algae redefine the chemical landscape of temperate reefs, limiting kelp forest recovery - Farrell et al (2025) - Bigelow Labs report (22 May)
- First insights into bacterial and microalgal endosymbiont communities of various coral morphotypes from Maldives - Avesani et al (2025)
- Scientists seek to save Florida’s dying reefs with hardy nursery-grown coral - by Richard Luscombe (24 May, Guardian)
- Shading and lowering of coral nurseries during a mass bleaching event (GBR) - Strudwick et al (2025)
- Behavioral patterns: mature female tiger sharks (Fuvahmulah, Maldives) - Reinero et al (2025)
- Aquaculture: Natural algal communities as probiotics for inhibition of aquaculture pathogens - Smahajcsik et al (2025)
- Coral development: Impacts of wind-driven hydrodynamics in the early stages - Buccheri et al (2025)
- Microplastics contamination of reef manta ray feeding areas (Chagos) - Savage et al (2025)
- Ghost Fishing Gear: An Overlooked Threat in Marine Debris Management - Pandey et al (2025)
- Chagos Islands and the world’s will to defend the ocean - by Chadwick Hagan (27 May, Oceanographic)
- Seahorse seizures: Using online reports to track illegal trade - Foster et al (2025) - global wildlife smuggling (28 May, UBC.ca): ~5 million seized seahorses
- Sea-urchin bioerosion suppresses reef growth in Hawaiʻi - Woesik et al (2025) - Scaling-up coral reef carbonate production - NCSU (28 May): Huge sea-urchin populations are overwhelming Hawaii’s reefs
- Coral bleaching induced by 2023 ENSO (Java) - Munasik et al (2025)
- Crown of thorns seastars: Little bites out of a big reef problem (GBR) - MacNeil (2025)
- Symbiont dynamics and coral regulation under changing temperatures - Cavailles et al (2025)
- Seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) bleaching in the eastern Mediterranean - Stipcich et al (2025)
- Passive retention of simulated larvae on coral reefs (GBR) - Greenwood et al (2025)
- Loggerhead turtle juveniles: Active dispersal revealed by satellite tracking data (North Pacific) - Gaspar et al (2025)
- Global tracking of marine megafauna [PDF] - Sequeira et al (2025) - article (Virginia Tech, 5 Jun) - Groundbreaking study
- Sea turtles inhabit warmer and saltier waters than 30 years ago - Nikolaos Simantiris (2025) - Indian Ocean exhibits largest increases
- Tandem reef restoration using corals and sea urchins - Lachnit et al (2025) - Building complex habitat for herbivores
- What’s the state of our oceans? - Katharina Schantz (10 June, DW)
- The 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event in Malaysia - Coralku et al (2025)
- New portable coral restoration system (‘Reefseed’) successfully road tested in the Maldives - AIMS (12 June) with MMRI
- UN Ocean Conference: ‘Glimmer of hope’ for marine life - Esme Stallard (13 June, BBC)
- Forethoughtful coral nurseries: alleviating climate change impediments on the reefs of tomorrow - Baruch Rinkevich (2025)
- Coral Reef Restoration: Active Biopaste - Corigliano et al (2025)
- Grazing deterrents improve survival of outplanted juvenile corals - van der Steeg et al (2025)
- Satellite tracking contributions to male sea turtle spatial ecology - Fuentes et al (2025)
- Collapse of coral reefs: ‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’ - Jonathan Watts interviews David Obura (Guardian, 25 June)
- Benthic Underwater Microscope PAM (BUMP): microstructure and photosynthetic efficiency - Ben-Zvi et al (2025) - article and video (Eleanor Higgs, IFL)
- Acropora spp. Coral Gardening Using Fragmentation and Direct Transplantation (China) - Li 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
- Post-bleaching patterns of Acanthaster, Culcita, & Drupella, in coral nurseries and reefs (Kaafu Atoll, Maldives) - Mohamad & Migliaccio (2025)
- Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) hatchlings: Thresholds of visible light detection - Gammariello & Dunbar
- Wild Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Provision People (Homo sapiens) - Towers et al (2025) - Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? (ScienceDirect, 2 July)
- Perceived need for management interventions in the Great Barrier Reef - Mankad et al (2025)
- Coral taxa: wild spawning slicks for effective restoration - Marquardt et al (2025)
- Pocillopora host–symbiont interactions along an extreme environmental gradient - Duijser et al (2025)
- IUCN Red List: The first for cold-water corals (global declines) - Sigwart et al (2025)
- Satellite-based analysis of an unverified mass coral bleaching event (GBR, 2021) - Spady et al (2025)
- Acropora austera: low resilience potential of charismatic coral reefs (Mozambique) - Duvane et al (2025)
- Spawning Asynchrony and Mixed Reproductive Strategies in a Common Mass Spawning Coral (Platygyra) - Ricardo et al (2025)
- Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus): dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification (PDF) - Lionnet et al (2025)
- Coral-Dwelling Decapods: Ecological Role in Coral Reef Systems - Bähr et al (2025)
- Coral genetic structure mirrors ocean circulation and thermal stress (W. Indian Ocean) - Guillaume et al (2025)
- Broadcast-spawning coral: Proximity and current alignment drives fertilisation success - Ricardo et al (2025)
- Reef management: water microorganisms as diagnostic indicators - Apprill & Salerno (2025)
- Hypoxia disrupts metabolism in coral and sea anemone larvae - Glass & Barott (2025)
- Structure and complexity of a rariphotic coral ecosystem (Red Sea) - Chimienti et al (2025)
- Acropora cervicornis: bacterial assemblages (Mexican Caribbean) - Hernández-Zulueta et al (2025)
- Benthic communities on restored coral reefs: aesthetic value - Alisa et al (2025)
- Intergenerational metabolomic signatures of bleaching resistance in corals - Roach et al (2025)
- Herbivore community function shapes resilience and bistability of coral reefs - Sura et al (2025)
- Future of coral bleaching research - Grottoli et al (2025)
- Secondary Microplastics Disrupt Early Coral Development: Brooding & Broadcast-Spawning Species - García-Galindo t al (2025)
- Biobanking Emerges as Priority: Coral Experts Reject Restoration as ‘Costly Distraction’ - Vinton et al (2025)
- Highly siloed nutrient pathways fuel meso-predator fishes on coral reefs - McMahon et al (2025)
- Acoustic monitoring: Marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching - Raick et al (2025)
- Stony coral species: Establishment of menthol bleaching protocols - Bauer et al (2025)
- Effects of shading aquaculture pools on coral larvae health and production - Langley et al (2025)
- CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding - Han et al (2025) - ChatGPT & AI
- Coral Reefs of the Andaman Sea – Factors Affecting Resilience, Recovery and Reef Refugia - Brown et al (2025)
- Gravid green turtles employ a mixed capital-income breeding strategy where food is abundant - Okuyama et al (2025)
- Porites : Green fluorescent proteins show divergent patterns (GBR) - Goyen et al (2025)
- Using Tourist Diver Photos to Assess the Effects of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Reefs (Red Sea) - Anderson B. Mayfield (2025)
- Predator–prey interactions on coral reefs: seasonal dynamics and environmental drivers of reef halos - Lester et al (2025)
- Photogrammetry: Multiscale structural complexity assessment of coral reefs - Barrera-Falcón et al (2025)
- Rising cover amid population density decline: the unstable demography of Acropora digitifera coral (Palau, W.Pacific) - Lachs et al (2025)
- Mechanical underwater adhesive devices (MUSAS) for soft substrates (inspired by remoras) - Kang et al (2025)
- Plastic ingestion in marine turtles: best practice framework for assessment - González-Paredes 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)
- Coral planulae settlement: negative effects of microplastic leachate - Wilkins & Richmond (2025)
- Horizontal transmission of heat-evolved microalgal symbionts in adult corals - Johnston et al (2025)
- Outplanted corals: Ecological quantitative criteria for reef site prioritisation to maximise survivorship and growth - Humanes et al (2025)
- Coral Bleaching and Recovery: Thermal Stress Event 2023–2024 (Jakarta, Indonesia) - Razak et al (2025)
- 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
- Global Decline in the Size of Sea Turtles - Hays et al (2025)
- Quantifying coral reef–ocean interactions is critical for predicting reef futures under climate change - Richardson et al (2025) Bangor University
- Drone-based photogrammetry of marine megafauna: workflow of open-source tools - Bierlich et al (2025)
- Effects of three sunscreens on the ecophysiology of hard and soft corals from the Maldives - Rücker et al (2025)
- Coral Farming Strategies: A Comparative Study of Nursery Types, Biodiversity and Environmental Conditions (Mauritius) - Nazurally et al (2025)
- Mangrove Ecosystems (Maldives): Diversity, Habitat Typology and Conservation Priorities - Aishath Ali Farhath et al (2025)
- Coral growth records: 20th Century sea-level acceleration and climatic variability (Maldives) - Kench at al (2025)
- Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth (Maldives) - Stefanoudis et al (2025)
- Seascape Genomics Reveal Contrasting Population Structure in Sympatric and Congeneric Corals Across Thermal Clines - Magena R. Marzonie et al (2025)
- Coral thermotolerance retained following year-long exposure to a novel environment - Roper et al (2025)
- Helix recesses boost coral larvae settlement and survival - Reichert 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)
- Coral restoration can drive rapid increases in reef accretion potential - Toth et al (2025)
- Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography (GBR) - Doropoulos (preprint)
- Resolving the impact of benthic and cryptic predation on the crown-of-thorns starfish [PDF] - Wolfe et al (2025) - COTS Control Innovation Program
- Imagining outcomes of coral restoration and adaptation intervention (GBR) - Lockie et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration in the Mexican Pacific: active interventions and scaling approaches - Tortolero-Langarica et al (2025)
- Coral reef fish: juvenile development under ocean warming and acidification - Cane et al (2025)
- Coral-associated invertebrates as indicators of reef health in the Caribbean - van der Schoot et al (2025)
- Acclimation mechanisms of coral juveniles (Acropora gemmifera) to long-term CO2-driven ocean acidification - Guo et al (2025)
- Community ecology dynamics on reefs in Fiji are dependent on soft coral density and depth - Stephenson et al (2025)
- High abundances of crustose coralline algae inside cryptic coral habitats linked to coral reef functioning - Rothstein et al (2025)
- Moving Beyond Temperature Metrics in Coral Bleaching Prediction Using Interpretable Machine Learning - Cheung et al (2025)
- Regulation of coral assemblages: Spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of recruits, juveniles, and adults - Botosoamananto et al (2025)
- Conservation of coral genetic diversity through a global biorepository network - Hagedorn et al (2025)
- Shell-ebrating sea turtles: a World Turtle Day guide to the Maldives’ ocean ambassadors - Maldives Independent (23 May) by Olive Ridley Project
- Bacterial regulation of coral larval metamorphosis and settlement in Pocillopora damicornis - Guo et al (2025)
- Patterns of coral spawning in the Palm Islands, Great Barrier Reef - Mera et al (2025)
- Sea star wasting disease: Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent - Prentice et al (2025) - DOI link (paywalled)
- Sea star wasting disease: bacterium identified - Andy Deng (The Guardian, 5 Aug) - podcast interview with Dr Melanie Prentice
- Reproductive cycle of reef-building scleractinians from a Mediterranean mesophotic coral reef - Semeraro et al (2025)
- Cryptic predation on coral spawn: Hidden trophic links in the dead of night - Tom Shlesinger (2025)
- Multidecadal decoupling between coral calcifying fluid and seawater saturation states - Hankins & DeCarlo (2025)
- Coral colony size & morphology (Acropora & Pocillopora): predictors of associated fish assemblages [PDF] - Duekilde & Møller (2025) MSc thesis
- Species-specific retention vs. recovery of coral thermal tolerance following nursery propagation - Szereday et al (2025)
- Mortality and recovery rates of Acropora fragments on in-situ nurseries after the 2023 bleaching event (Turks & Caicos) - DeBuysser et al (2025) preprint
- Chromatin accessibility and heat stress gene expression in the reef-building coral, Acropora millepora - Guerrero et al (2025) preprint
- The State Of The World’s Sea Turtles: SWOT Report #20 - Atlas of Global Sea Turtle Status (2025)
- Maldives Coral Restoration Project - Adrian Stacy (Divernet, 3 Jun): Soneva Foundation Coral Restoration Programme
- Anthropogenic forcing drives equatorward migration of heatwave locations across continents - Feng et al (2025)
- Tubastraea coccinea: a coral species with high invasive potential that benefits from ocean warming and acidification - Gallardo et al (2025)
- Direct analysis of dissolved CO2 in coastal waters: development and validation of a simple method - Rangel-García et al (2025)
- Great Barrier Reef on the Brink: Australia’s Natural Wonder Suffers Worst Coral Collapse in History - Andrea Trinidad (IBTimes, 06 Aug)
- Australia’s Great Barrier Reef devastated by worst coral bleaching on record - Jessie Yeung (CNN, 06 Aug)
- Great Barrier Reef: World’s biggest coral survey confirms sharp decline - AIMS (06 Aug)
- Great Barrier Reef more volatile with sharp declines in coral cover - AIMS (06 Aug)
- Interactive effects of ocean acidification and warming disrupt calcification and microbiome composition in bryozoans - Figuerola et al (2025)
- Nyinggulu Reef at Risk: Thermal Anomalies, Coral Mortality, and the Erosion of Resilience (Ningaloo, GBR) - Kate M. Quigley (2025)
- Collapse of Herbivorous Fish Control of Invasive Algae During Marine Heatwaves - Brijs et al (2025)
- Building heat-resilient Caribbean reefs: integrating thermal thresholds and coral colonies selection in restoration - Pimentel et al (2025)
- Bleaching Impacts on the Last Remaining Acropora-dominated Reefs in the United Arab Emirates - Hadj-Hammou et al (2025)
- Elevated temperature decreases stony coral tissue loss disease transmission, with little effect of nutrients - Palacio-Castro 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)
- Frag-n-Fly gardening method for coral restoration: fragmentation and outplanting - Giraldes et al (2025)
- Aggregations of free-living corals facilitate reef expansion at upper mesophotic depth (Seychelles) - Samimi-Namin et al (2025)
- Comparative genomics of two closely related Acropora coral species with different spawning seasons - Takahashi-Kariyazono et al (2025)
- AI-driven Dispensing of Coral Reseeding Devices for Broad-scale Restoration (GBR) - Raine et al (2025)
- Extirpation of Acropora cervicornis genotypes from a coral nursery during the 2023 marine heatwave undermines conservation efforts - Le Gall et al (2025)
- Enhancing coral larvae culture methods and settlement for coral reef restoration - Rodd (2025) PhD thesis
- Advancing coral reef ecological engineering for large-scale seascaping on soft seabeds: comparison of artificial reef designs - Giraldes et al (2025)
- Local Adaptation May Help Mitigate Feminisation of Sea Turtle Populations Globally - Tromp et al (2025)
- Pole and Line Fishing: how a Maldives tradition is ensuring tuna stocks thrive - by Maya Yang (The Guardian, 04 Sept)
- Fate-tracking early coral recruits following bleaching in a remote reef ecosystem - Stratford et al (2025)
- Predation on crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) relative to fisheries management zones (GBR) [PDF] - Doll et al (2025)
- Parrotfish: Density-dependence and territorial competitors can modulate social foraging and herbivory on coral reefs - Thareja et al (2025) preprint
- 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
- Microbial living materials promote coral larval settlement - Levy et al (2025)
- Withstanding the heat: Resilience of free-living coralline algae to marine heatwaves - Nannini et al (2025)
- Gulf & Caribbean Research: Volume 36, Issue 1 (2025) - 3D Printed Polylactide Structures - and - Macroalgal Composition
- Scaling up coral spawn collection: Impacts of method and timing on Acropora valida larval quality - Langley et al (2025)
- Microplastics: Linking Tourism Activity to Occurrence and Distribution - Chairunnisa et al (2025)
- Microplastic contamination in SE Asia’s blue carbon habitats – systematic review - Adnan et al (2025)
- Adaptation Strategies of Small-Scale Marine Fisheries in Response to Climate Change, Resources, Systemic Shocks - Shah et al (2025)
- Acute Toxicity of Arsenate and Arsenite in Two Scleractinian Coral Species: Acropora cervicornis and Orbicella faveolata - Cailey Dorman (2025)
- Zoological Survey Of India – Special Issue 2025 - eg: Coral Health Issues, Coral Recruitment, etc.
- Navigating danger: Watercraft-related mortality of sea turtles (USA) - Fuentes et al (2025)
- Ecophysiology of two mesophotic octocorals intended for restoration: Effects of light and temperature (USA) - Lange et al (2025)
- 3D bioprinting of coral-polyp bio-skin for transplantation on coral skeletons - Valle-Pérez et al (2025)
- Crustose Coralline Algae as a Proxy for Marine Nitrogen Cycling and Coral Trophic Strategies - Jung et al (2025) preprint
- UN High Seas Treaty: crosses threshold to come into force - Esme Stallard (BBC, 20 Sept)
- Controlled out-of-season spawning of reef-forming corals using offset environmental cues - Koukoumaftsis et al (2025)
- Corals of Opportunity: direct transplantation onto Mauritian sediment-impacted Reefs - Nadeem et al (2025)
- Species range shifts: mixed-species outbreak and coral predation by crown-of-thorns starfish on subtropical reefs - Sommer et al (2025)
- Wave Attenuation by Restored Coral Reef Canopies (MARRS Reef Stars) for Coastal Protection (Indonesia) - Geldard et al (2025)
- Photoendosymbiosis of the Blue Subtropical Montipora Corals (South Pacific) - Vuleta et al (2025)
- Experimental nutrient enrichment during thermal stress mitigates coral bleaching in an oligotrophic reef setting, Maldives - Arnull et al (2025) preprint
- Density dependent habitat selection in response to habitat loss in a coral reef fish - Boström- Einarsson et al (2025)
- Aiding sea turtle conservation through coastal management - Christiaanse et al (2025)
- Mass puffer fish deaths and red-bell jellyfish bloom (Pilbara, W.Australia) - by Alistair Bates (ABC, 25 Sept)
- Turtle tracking reveals secrets of flatback turtles: World-first in Roebuck Bay, WA (Australia) - by Ruby Littler (ABC, 20 Sept)
- Coral Spawn Automated Monitoring for Reef Restoration: Imaging Camera System (CSLICS) - Tsai et al (2025)
- Motile infaunal diversity patterns across reef environments (Palau) – ‘Rubble in paradise’ - Biondi et al (2025)
- Dynamics of thermal stress events: do thermotolerant endosymbionts improve or hamper survival of coral reefs - Bonforti et al (2025) preprint
- Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts increase coral bleaching tolerance - Buerger et al (2025)
- Deep-sea mining: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks - Drazen et al (2020)
- Coral-killing sponge (Terpios hoshinota): Genomic analysis reveals broad adaptability under environmental stress - Liu et al (2025)
- Reefshark Genomescapes: Mapping Risk and Conservation Potential Across the Indo-Pacific - Johri et al (2025)
- Coral restoration as economic stimulus: a case study from the Florida Keys (USA) - Winters & Rothwell (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
- Crown-of-thorns starfish: A social license to operate theory for lethal control (Great Barrier Reef) - Bartelet et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration: Ecosystem process recovery (AI-accelerated soundscape analysis) - Williams et al (2025)
- Coral persistence under climate change: Growth rate and adaptive capacity (not just thermal tolerance) are critical - Vogt-Vincent et al (2025)
- Algal Blooms: Australia’s southern coast is in uncharted waters - by Daniel Keane (ABC, 30 Sep) photostory
- Coral Reef Diseases: R&D Technology Roadmap [PDF] - Banaszak et al (2025) CORDAP
- Microplastics in Sediments: Methodology, Variability, Concentrations, Accumulation Rates (Virgin Islands) - Arbaugh et al (2025) thesis
- Local Human Stressors on Tropical Benthic Communities: Remoteness Is Not a Silver Bullet (Maldives) - Stefanoudis et al (2025)
- Multi-specific coral spawning and monsoonal transitions: assemblage-level observations from Baa Atoll, Maldives - Errington et al (2025) REEFSCAPERS
- Synchrony on the reef: how environmental factors shape coral spawning patterns in Acropora corals in the Maldives - Kate Sheridan et al (2025) REEFSCAPERS
- Sea turtle morbidity and mortality from 12 years of data shows high prevalence of ghost net entanglement (Indian Ocean) - Himpson et al (2023) REEFSCAPERS
- Identifying key factors for coral survival in reef restoration projects using deep learning - Morand et al (2022) REEFSCAPERS
- Coral Restoration Effectiveness: Multiregional Snapshots of the Long-Term Responses of Coral Assemblages to Restoration - Hein et al (2020) REEFSCAPERS
- Rapid Marine Ecological Baseline Assessment of the Islands of Baa Atoll (2008-09) [PDF] - Le Berre et al (2009) REEFSCAPERS & UNDP
- Valuing biodiversity: the economic case for biodiversity conservation in the Maldives [PDF] - Emerton et al (2009) REEFSCAPERS & IUCN
- Socioeconomic monitoring for coastal managers of South Asia: field trials and baseline surveys (N. Male’ Atoll, Maldives) Saleem & Alicea (2012) REEFSCAPERS
- Tsunami Recovery and Restoration in the Maldives – Lessons Learned [PDF] - Saleem & Sattar (2012) REEFSCAPERS & Globalislands
- Report of the SocMon capacity development workshop for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem countries in South Asia - Hoon et al (2015) REEFSCAPERS & BOBLME
- Study on Post-Tsunami Restoration and Conservation Projects in the Maldives - Saleem & Sattar (2009) REEFSCAPERS & IUCN
- Marine turtle nesting activity impacted by breakwaters (Cyprus) - Casale et al (2025)
- Restoration potential of corals from urbanized and marginal habitats in Florida - Studivan et al (2025)
- Co-occurrence patterns of photosymbiont genera in reef-building corals: a global review and meta-analysis - Allen et al (2025) preprint
- Nature vs nurture? Light availability drives phenotypic plasticity within a reef coral species - Ducret et al (2025) preprint
- Improving growth monitoring of Acropora cervicornis in nurseries and outplants (Caribbean) - Sánchez et al (2025)
- Spawning times and breeding trials suggest no inbreeding occurs between Porites aff. lutea and P. cf cylindrica - Terraneo et al (2025)
- Coral spawning in East Africa: New in situ observations for three reef-building species (Zanzibar ) - Lillis & Jiddawi (2025) preprint
- Microplastics Ingestion by Zooplankton Community of Coral Reefs (Lakshadweep) [PDF] - Sudheesh et al (2025) - thanks to Madhu for the paper
- Heterotrophic feeding in coral juvenile survival, growth, and heat tolerance: ‘You are what you eat’ - Calvert et al (2025) thesis
- Reef fishes weaken dietary preferences after coral mortality, altering resource overlap - Semmler et al (2022)
- A multi-molecular biomarker assessment of thermal preconditioning in two scleractinian coral species - Louis et al (2025)
- Brazilian Coral Reefs: Tourism, Environmental Education, Aquarium Trade - Mendes et al (2025)
- Species range shifts on reefs: first observed mixed-species outbreak by crown-of-thorns starfish - Sommer 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)
- Immune gene expression as a biomarker for predicting restoration success in coral Acropora cervicornis - Villafranca et al (2025) preprint
- Evaluating stress antagonists for enhanced coral recovery after natural heat exposure - Mezger et al (2025)
- Alkalinity enrichment stimulates calcification and linear extension in Acropora cervicornis - Cooke et al (2025) preprint
- Stony coral tissue loss disease decimated Caribbean coral populations and reshaped reef functionality - Alvarez-Filip et al (2025)
- Developing coral seeding devices and rapid deployment methods to scale up reef restoration - Ramsby et al (2025)
- Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases - Gouezo et al (2025)
- Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: Detectability and Consequences for Culling or Removal - Pratchett et al (2025)
- Long-Term Incubation Duration Decline: Climate-Change Driven Feminization of Three Sea Turtle Species (Florida) - Ceriani & Casale (2025)
- Cost-effective coral settlement substrates for restoration - Widiastuti et al (2025) - settlement of Acropora millepora larvae to clay substrates
- Coral Biopsy Technique (Minimally Invasive): In-Situ Microbiome and Metabolome Sampling - Berg 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
- Spirochaetota symbionts in the precious octocoral Corallium rubrum under heat stress - Gervais et al (2025)
- Impact of warming and suspended terrigenous sediment on coral Montipora capitata (Hawaii) - Good 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
- Exploitation status and stock assessment of daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) (Indonesia) - Wijayanto et al (2025) - Biodiversitas 26.9 (2025)
- Macroalgal–Coral Interactions: Diversity, Abundance, and Spatial Patterns (New Caledonia) - by Vieira et al (2025)
- Long-distance gene flow and contrasting population structures of reef-building corals and their algal symbionts - Denis et al (2025)
- Whale shark strandings: Spatio-temporal patterns, trends, and oceanographic drivers (Indonesia) - Putra et al (2025)
- Oceanography Society Magazine – September 2025 - TOS.org bookshelf / library
- Effects of sediments on the reproductive cycle of corals - Jones et al (2015) - spawn cycle graphics are often cited
- Defining Site-Specific Water Quality Guidelines for Marine Microbiomes under Contaminant Stress - Thomas et al (2025)
- Amplified warming and marine heatwaves in the North Sea under a warming climate and their impacts - Mohamed et al (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)
- Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll - Kench et al (2022)
- Sterols are key to coral larvae survival, swimming capacity, and thermal tolerance - Matthews et al (2025)
- Growth-predation risk tradeoffs constrain Staghorn coral (Acropora pulchra) to marginal reef habitats (Polynesia) - Ladd et al (2025)
- Role of mesophotic ecosystems to preserve reef fish biodiversity under climate change (tropical Pacific) - Valencia-Méndez et al (2025)
- Stakeholder engagement as local marine stewardship action for coral reef restoration (Kenya) - Wambugu et al (2025)
- Long-term community dynamics are heterogeneous between fringing- and fore-reef habitats (Indo-Pacific) - Edmunds et al (2025)
- Demographic Insights for Coral Restoration - Madin et al (2025) preprint
- The “blue community” of the Indian Ocean: cooperation, challenges and prospects for marine environmental protection - Zhang & Wan (2025)
- Coral Reef Restoration Manual by MaRHE Maldives [PDF] - by Montano, Siena, Amir (2022) MaRHE
- Mangrove Plant (Sonneratia caseolaris): Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Potential (Maldives) - Cerri & Galli (2025) MaRHE
- Mangrove Avicennia marina: Phytochemical Profiling, Antioxidant Activity, In-Vitro Cytotoxic Potential (Maldives) - Cerri et al (2025) MaRHE
- Are coexisting mangrove‑coral assemblages missing in the Maldives? - Louis et al (2024) MaRHE
- Piebaldism in Sharks: A Review of Global Sightings and Patterns - Whitehead et al (2025) MaRHE
- Coral Pachyseris speciosa: Effects of light limitation on photophysiology (Singapore’s turbid reefs) - Toniolo et al (2025) MaRHE
- Field photogrammetry in 4D: Overview & in-field workflow Reef Restoration and Adaption Program - Gordon et al (2025) AIMS
- 🔥 Safeguarding the Great Barrier Reef’s role in Australia’s Economy (Oct 2025 report) - GBR Foundation & Deloitte Access Economics
- Cosmetic UV filters used in sunscreens and their impact on corals put into perspective - Pawlowski et al (2025)
- Octocoral dynamics over a decade on Florida’s coral reef - Liberman et al (2025)
- Vulnerability and habitat suitability changes of Acropora spp. due to the pressure of climate change (Indonesia) - Januar et al (2025)
- Metabolic interactions between coral animal and endolithic bacterial communities - Chuang et al (2025) preprint
- 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)
- Evaluating methods for high-resolution, national-scale seagrass mapping in Google Earth Engine [Maldives] - Floyd 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)
- Vive la resilient: Don’t write off our corals just yet - by Darling & Wright (oceanographic, 30 Oct)
- Recovery of locally managed reefs after a category-5 cyclone and extreme waves - Ford et al (2025)
- Coral larval settlement: Unravelling the role of crustose coralline algae microbiomes (GBR) - Turnlund et al (2025) preprint
- Does land reclamation affect small-scale benthic communities? (Okinawa, Japan) - Ishibashi et al (2025) preprint
- Marine heatwaves disrupt the culling of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (GBR) - Cook et al (2025) preprint
- Marine Turtle Newsletter #169 (October 2025) - seaturtle.org
- 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
- Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching - by Malavika Vyawahare (mongabay, 30 Oct)
- Vulnerability to collapse of coral reef ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean - Obura et al (2021)
- Restoration as a meaningful aid to ecological recovery of coral reefs - Suggett et al (2024)
- The effect of rubble stability on coral settlement and recruitment - Paewai-Huggins et al (2025) preprint
- 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
- Wave energy and other environmental drivers as predictors of seeded-coral performance (GBR) - Jurriaans et al (2025)
- Low Genetic Diversity and Decreased Effective Population Sizes of Acropora hyacinthus Populations (S. China Sea) - Di 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
- 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)
- Seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production - Gomis et al (2025)
- Adaptive Potential of Intracolonial Genetic Variability in Coral Populations - Afiq‐Rosli & Duarte (2025)
- Groundwater spatial variability within an atoll island (Maldives) - Tobon-Velazquez et al (2025)
- A Stochastic Method for Predicting Recovery of Coral Reefs - Casas & Bernido (2025)
- Corallivorous Fish Have Reduced Population Sizes and Altered Foraging Behaviour on a Recently Restored Coral Reef (Indonesia) - Lamont et al (2025) Mars Project
- Molecular Responses to Thermally Variable Preconditioning for Acropora cervicornis & Pseudodiploria clivosa (Caribbean) - DeMerlis et al (2025)
- Blue Corridors for Turtles Report 2025 - WWF (June)
- Coral larval metamorphosis, but not attachment, is influenced by high natural light intensity - dela Cruz et al (2025) preprint
- Sea turtles: Aging dynamics in captivity reflect conserved life-history patterns across the testudine phylogeny - Glen et al (2025)
- Sea Turtles: Interaction Between Age and Individual Heterogeneity Shapes Breeding Probability - Glen et al (2025)
- A draft genome assembly of the mushroom coral Podabacia crustacea (Pallas, 1766) - Tang et al (2025)
- 🔥 Global manta and devil ray population declines: Closing policy and management gaps to reduce fisheries mortality - Laglbauer et al (2025)
- Deep diving behaviour in oceanic manta rays and its potential function - Beale et al (2025)
- Large marine protected areas can encompass movements of diverse megafauna - Trevail et al (2025)
- Evidence for a fisher-designed solution to manta and devil ray bycatch in tuna fisheries - Cronin et al (2025)
- Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Noisy Coral Reefs - Vishnu et al (2025)
- Coral reef restoration and adaptation: How do the public perceive the risks & benefits? (Australia) - Demeter et al (2025)
- Does reef crest zone selection influence Acropora palmata fragment survival and growth? - Romero 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)
- Impact of the 2023–2024 ENSO Event of the North Pacific Coral Reefs of Costa Rica - Alvarado et al (2025)
- The Role of Live and Dead Corals in Shaping Fish Assemblages Across Life Stages - Mattos et al (2025)
- Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats - VanCompernolle et al (2025)
- Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree - Steenwyk & King - and - Sponging away phylogenomic incongruence - Mulhair & Redmond (2025)
- Thermal tolerance is associated with enhanced growth and recovery in the reef-building coral Montipora capitata [PDF] - Walker et al (2025)
- Widespread coral bleaching and mass mortality during the 2023–2024 marine heatwave in Little Cayman - Doherty et al (2025)
- A review of the current knowledge of the flow of carbon and energy in scleractinian corals - Ianniello et al (2025)
- Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial-Refugia Hypothesis - Ferris et al (2025)
- Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects - Nynatten et al (2025)
- Reef Manager’s Guide to Coral Bleaching [PDF] - Marshall & Schuttenberg (2006) NOAA, IUCN
- Emerging evidence for apical dominance in colonial branching Acropora corals - Re & Duarte (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)
- 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
- Speciation across depth gradients in reef corals - Gómez-Corrales et al (2025)
- Instability is not the only driver of rubble impacts on coral settlement and recruitment - Paewai-Huggins et al (2025) preprint
- Disruption of the sea turtle magnetic map sense by a magnetic pulse - Mackiewicz et al (2025) - how baby turtles navigate thousands of miles
- Success of restoration strategies in preventing extirpation of 2 critically endangered Acropora coral species (Florida) - Muller et al (2025)
- Assisted recovery of tissue loss in massive corals (Orbicella faveolata): restoring damaged colonies - Tortolero-Langarica et al (2025)
- Coral reefs as potential climate refugia following the 2024 mass bleaching event (Mahafaly Seascape, Madagascar) - Randrianarivo et al (2025)
- Thermal refugia support the long-term survival and growth of giant coral colonies - Stronaa & Montanob (2025)
- Rapid heat stress assays predict survivors of coral bleaching - Naugle et al (2025) preprint
- Historic coral disturbance versus current coral restoration (Palmyra Atoll) - Clements et al (2025)
- Coral Recruitment and Survival in a Remote Maldivian Atoll (Huvadhoo) 11 Years Apart - Oprandi 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)
- Characterizing the threats of chemical contaminants to Caribbean Acropora corals [PDF] - Muller et al (2025) NOAA
- Protection of coral reef fish delivers ecosystem-critical biocontrol of coral-eating starfish (GBR) - Condie et al (2025)
- Ten years of coral reef benthic changes in the Central Mexican Pacific - Sotelo-Casas et al (2025)
- Spatial variability in coral assemblages (NE & central Red Sea) - Pisapia 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 symbionts: Microplastic-mediated enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – toxic effects - He et al (2025)
- Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation - Zhuang et al (2025)
- Marine heatwave decimates fire coral populations in the Caribbean - Dell’Antonio et al (2025)
- Accessible AI Enhances Monitoring of Coral Seeding Devices in Reef Restoration - Stratford et al (2025)
- Pathological drivers of coral diseases across the Arabian Peninsula - Work et al (2025)
- Tubastraea coccinea (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is the globally dispersed species of Sun Coral - Portella et al (2025) preprint
- Persistent Geographic Patterns of Coral Recruitment in Hawaiʻi - Asner et al (2025)
- Feeding effect on reducing reactive oxygen species in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis - Higa et al (2025)
- Wave height reduction by coral growth: increased wave heights owing to sea-level rise and tropical cyclones by 2100 (Japan) - Hongo et al (2025)
- 🔥 Review of Coral Taxonomy, Evolution and Diversity - Veron et al (2025) - major new 40k-word illustrated study
- 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)
- Pier pressure: 23 years of incidental sea turtle captures at recreational fishing piers (Florida) - Brannum et al (2025)
- Long lives and high invariant reproductive costs: why do sea turtles not nest every year? - Hays & Laloë (2025)
- Prevalence and Abundance of Coral-killing Sponges (Karimunjawa, Indonesia) [PDF] - Haryanti et al (2025)
- Decadal changes in the fish assemblage structure and function within an insular coral community - Alba-Guzmán et al (2025)
- Coral Diseases: Diversity and Prevalence in the Nearshore Regions of the Northern South China Sea - Tu et al (2025)
- Manta and devil ray courtship and mating: A review - Carpenter 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
- A staged and layered approach to restoring turbid nearshore coral reefs - Page et al (2025)
- Ecological Contributions of an Active Coral Restoration Effort (Indo-Pacific) - Malkamäki et al (2025)
- Recovery of Coral Reefs: Changes in Hard Coral Cover After a Tropical Storm (Pulau Bidong, Malaysia) - Qamarina et al (2025)
- RAPS: A self-contained reef acoustic playback system for underwater soundscape enrichment, larval settlement - Mooney et al (2025)
- Interaction strength and harvest intensity mediate predator–prey dynamics on coral reefs - Rahnke et al (2025)
- Mesophotic sponge assemblages in a region undergoing climate change stressors - Donald & Battershill (2025)
- Past thermal history and heat stress shape patterns of coral-algal symbioses in massive Porites - Kraemer (2025) preprint
- Summer temperature maxima already challenge thermal capacities of coral (Persian/Arabian Gulf) - Alderdice et al (2025)
- Stress-Tolerant Coral Faces Bioerosion: Sponge Colonization Under Mass Bleaching - Oliveira et al (2025) preprint
- Abundance of microplastics in coastal area surface water at Tok Bali, Kelantan. - Ismail et al (2025)
- Enhancing Coral Reef Restoration through Biomimetic 3D-Printed Structures: A BACI-Based Longitudinal Assessment - Wahyuni et al (2025)
- Cryptic Diversity and Genetic Differentiation of Mesophotic Hydroids (SW Indian Ocean) - Ory et al (2025)
- Insights from multispecies coral seeding deployments on turbid nearshore reefs (GBR) - Page et al (2025) preprint
- Scaling up coral reef restoration amid global ecological constraints - Mumby et al (2025)
- Lack of Consistent Diurnal Trends in Acoustic Metrics from Restored Coral Reefs (Caribbean) - Velázquez-Alvarado et al (2025)
- Coral relocation supports survival and growth in an urban reef of the Maldives (Villimalé) - Pancrazi et al (2025) preprint
- Ectosymbiont community shifts driven by partial mortality in Pocillopora coral colonies - Petrochenko et al (2025)
- Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Results in Persistent Microbial-Level Disturbances on Coral Reef Ecosystems - Rosales et al (2025)
- Shading strategies to mitigate heat and light stress in Acropora cervicornis amid intensifying climate challenges - Ruiz-Diaz et al (2025)
- Future Sea Surface Temperature as a Key Driver of Antarctic Warming - Zhang 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
- Impacts of climate change-induced large-scale disturbances on coral reef connectivity and recovery (GBR) [PDF] - Mandy Wing Man Cheung (PhD thesis)
- Thermal tolerance of coral species: Contrasting temperature-induced gene network rewiring and isoform switching - Scucchia et al (2025) preprint
- Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals - Wilson & Edmunds (2025)
- Propagation method and species drive survival patterns across reef zones in coral seeding (GBR) - Jurriaans et al (2025) preprint
- Coral Reefs in the Indonesian Seas Threatened by Heat and Cold Stress - Watanabe et al (2025)
- Thermal Bleaching in Corals: Nitrate Aggravates While Ammonium Mitigates - Zhang et al (2026)
- Microbial dynamics in coral reef waters: Diel cycles in contrasting seasons - Steinsdóttir et al (2026)
- Coral assessment and Drupella identification: low-cost camera system and point cloud semantic segmentation - Wang et al (2026)
- Proactive Coral Reef Restoration Using Thermally Tolerant Corals in Hawaiʻi - Hoʻopai-Sylva et al (2026)
- Ocean Pollution: 100 facts backed by science - by Surfer Today magazine (2 Jan)
- Ghost Reefs of 2083: The Paleontology of Color - by Rick MacPherson (therevelator, 12 Nov)
- 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
- Influence of coral transplantation on fish abundance and functional group composition - Asmawi et al (2026)
- Island paradise lost – plastic waste and nesting green sea turtles (Christmas Island, AU) - by Mietta Adams & Alistair Bates (ABC, 9 Jan)
- Evaluating MPA success for Caribbean reef fish: the role of design, habitat, and management - Skinner et al (2026)
- Dredging and dumping impact coastal fluxes of sediment and organic carbon - Porz et al (2026)
- Control scenarios for crown of-thorns starfish (GBR): An ensemble approach [PDF] - Skinner et al (2026)
- Coupling of excitation energy to photochemistry in natural marine phytoplankton communities under iron stress - Pupulewatte et al (2025)
- Coral Venom and Toxins as Protection Against Crown-of-Thorns Sea Star Attack - Gorman et al (2025)
- Spatial and host-specific structuring in symbiont community composition of an endemic Hawaiian octocoral (Sarcothelia edmondsoni) - Cabell et al (2026)
- Reimagining coral reef futures [PDF] - Gianelli et al (2026)
- Only One Percent of Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Western Indian Ocean Are Fully Protected From Fishing Pressure - Cochran et al (2026)
- 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
- Marine darkwave as an event-based framework to assess unusual periods of reduced underwater light availability (New Zealand) - Thoral et al (2026)
- Stony coral tissue loss disease : Genotype & symbionts (not environment) influence susceptibility in restoration - Eaton et al (2025)
- Ocean currents and internal waves: shaping seafloor morphology in a mesophotic reef (bathymetry) - Bialik et al (2026)
- Net illumination is more effective for reducing fisheries bycatch at night [PDF] - Burgher et al (2026)
- 🔥 State of the climate: 2025 in top-three hottest years on record as ocean heat surges - by Zeke Hausfather (carbonbrief, 14 Jan)
- Enhanced survival and lower growth in assisted gene flow corals during a marine heatwave driven by local adaptation - Macadam et al (2026) preprint
- Global Warming Drives Phenological Shifts and Hinders Reproductive Success in a Temperate Octocoral - Viladrich et al (2026)
- Host Evolutionary Lineage Shapes Assembly, Network Topology, and Metabolic Potential of Coral Skeletal Endolithic Microbiomes - Bai et al (2026)
- Bacterial Communities Associated With Crustose Coralline Algae Are Host‐Specific - Turnlund et al (2026)
- Impacts of Nearby Algae on Recruitment Success and Early Microbiome Development of the Coral Acropora cytherea - Vizon et al (2026)
- Green turtles (Chelonia mydas): satellite tracking across multiple year cohorts to identify key areas for conservation - Stokes et al (2026)
- Front lines in ‘ghost net’ war expand to Australia’s north with $25m funding boost - by James Elton (ABC, 20 Jan)
- 🔥 National Sea Turtle Research Standard Methods Manual (NOAA) - McMichael et al (2025)
- Improving ex situ coral culture outcomes: growth and survival responses of Galaxea fascicularis recruits to supplemental feeding - Cooper et al (2026)
- Temperature-associated gametogenesis and spawning timing in Porites cylindrica - Inoha et al (2025)
- Algal Symbionts Indicate Heatwave Vulnerability in Corals From Hotspots but Not From Thermal Refugia - Buzzoni et al (2026)
- Selective breeding design based on parental rapid heat stress thresholds did not produce more heat-tolerant coral larvae - Lamb et al (2026)
- Understanding and managing population irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) [GBR] - Pratchett et al (2026)
- Global Warming Drives Phenological Shifts and Hinders Reproductive Success in a Temperate Octocoral (Paramuricea clavata) - Viladrich et al (2026)
- Acute Heat Priming Dampens Gene Expression Response to Thermal Stress in Acropora Coral - Stick et al (2026)
- Advancing Reef Recovery Through Insights into Coral Nutrition - Matthews et al (2026) preprint
- Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi): Natural and reduced anthropogenic injuries rates (Chagos) - Savage et al (2026)
- Experimental nutrient enrichment during thermal stress reduces bleaching severity in an oligotrophic reef setting, Maldives - Arnull et al (2026)
- Bleaching variation across India’s corals reefs during the fourth global coral bleaching event - Pinto et al (2026) preprint
- Metacommunity Coupled Epidemiological & Biophysical Modeling of an Emergent Coral Disease [PDF] - Benjamin Farmer (2026) [PhD thesis]
- Coral species from another ocean may be the only way to save Caribbean reefs - Camacho et al (2026)
- Missing the Reef for the Corals: Unexpected Trends Between Coral Reef Condition and the Environment - Hochberg & Gierach (2021)
- Between the Atolls: Sea Turtle Nesting in the Maldives from 2018 to 2024 - Afeef et al (2026) ORP
- Coral reef fish may be more important than we thought - Jason S. Link (pnas, 20 Jan)
- Microbiome dynamics following coral transplantation in the reef builder Mussismilia harttii (Brazil) - Varasteh et al (2026)
- Coral larval settlement induction and inhibition by marine biofilms [PDF] - O’Brien et al (2026) preprint
- Symbiodiniaceae: diversity and role of microeukaryotic coral symbionts - Bonacolta et al (2023)
- Age-Related Shifts in Bacterial Diversity in a Reef Coral - Williams et al (2015)
- Heat-stressed corals and the important role of picoplankton-derived nitrogen - Lange et al (2026)
- Population Genetic Structure and Symbiont Communities in Acropora cf. tenuis (Australia) - Duffy et al (2026)
- Biomarkers of foraging and reproduction in captive adult female hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) - Kent et al (2026)
- Effects of Blue Light and Feeding on the Physiological Performance of Reef Corals - Zhang et al (2026)
- Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii): Underwater hearing sensitivity - Muirhead et al (2026)
- Soft coral responses during a coral bleaching event in a shallow reef flat (Japan) - Lalas et al (2026) preprint
- Drone Imaging can Accurately Assess Coral Cover, Bleaching, and Growth Form for Shallow Coral Reefs - Himes & Rueger (2026) preprint
- Leatherback turtles: Energy budget and reproductive potential explored with mechanistic modeling - Ortega et al (2026) Food, Glorious Food!
- Rapid Evolution in a Coral Population Following a Mass Mortality Event - Fifer et al (2026)
- Coral Reef Kaleidoscopes by Georgette Douwma - as featured in Natgeo (May 2024)
- Shark & Ray Habitats: Only 1% Protected From Fishing Pressure (Indian Ocean) - Cochran et al (2026) - article by Victoria Schneider
- Cryptofauna Associated With the Epilithic Algal Matrix (EAM) on Subtropical Brazilian Reefs - Barros et al (2026)
- Sponge (Rowella lancifera): Differing temperature regimes have no impact on heat stress response - Broadribb et al (2026)
- The role of substrate materials for the survival and growth of coral micro-fragment sheets - Wahab et al (2026)
- Microbial communities in coral reefs: Preference for producer specific exudates - Arts el at (2026)
- Hierarchical settlement behaviours of coral larvae to common coralline algae - Abdul Wahab et al (2023)
- Linking differences in microbial network structure with changes in coral larval settlement - Turnlund et al (2023)
- Microbial Metabolism and Disease Virulence Changes Across Day and Night in Coral Black Band Disease Lesions - Hung et al (2026)
- Nutritional and Microbial Responses of Pocillopora verrucosa to Co-Culture With Chromis viridis Damselfish - Neil et al (2026)
- Green turtles (Chelonia mydas): Female reproductive dynamics (Caribbean) - Bruno et al (2026)
- Mangrove expansion and eco-tourism secures ecosystem services under sea-level rise - Stamoulis 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)
- Provisioning of vitellogenic follicles continues after green turtles arrive at the nesting beach - Bruno et al (2026)
- ENSO-Linked Oceanic and Atmospheric Controls Driving Coral Bleaching: Lessons from Sri Lanka’s Fringing Reef Systems - Harishchandra (2026) preprint
- Emerging Threats in a Warming Ocean: Climate-Driven Spread of Marine Invasive Species and Regional Biosecurity Gaps - Jayachandran et al (2026)
- Coral Reef Restoration in the Coral Triangle: Bibliometric Insights [PDF] - Hasan et al (20260
- Biological traits of corals under electro-mineral accretion at a coral restoration site in Indonesia - Andrew C F Taylor (2025)
- Rubble stabilization on coral reefs: A decision support tool - Leung et al (2025)
- Sea Turtle Species: Major Histocompatibility Complex Immunogenetic Diversity Differs Substantially - Martin et al (2026)
- Coral reefs: Weak trophic position–body mass relationships undermine simple size-spectrum models - Delecambre et al (2026)
- Green turtles: A dynamic foraging habitat distribution estimate (Great Barrier Reef, GBR) - Webster et al (2026) preprint
- Climate change (2024): largest population of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) driven to the brink of extirpation (Barbados) - Vallès et al (2026) preprint
- When depth fails to prevent bleaching but limits coral death: insights from the 2019 heatwave (French Polynesia) - Boitel et al (2026) preprint
- Planktivorous fishes withstand 20 years of major coral cover oscillations - Reynaud et al (2026) preprint
- Coral reef biodiversity: unseen threat of the international trade of live corals for the aquarium industry - Bert W Hoeksema (2026)
- Mushroom coral bed: Spatial extent, population size and demographics of Cycloseris spp (Ningaloo, Australia) - Keesing et al (2026)
- Coral larval aquaculture: Species-specific survival and microbial dynamics in flow-through systems - Ramsby et al (2026)
- Substantial impacts from the 2024 summer reverse five years of coral cover gains on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) - Ceccarelli et al (2026)
- Maldivian Coral Reefs: Past and Present - Rhiannon Siân Davies (PhD thesis)
- Rapid self-recognition (MSR) ability in the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) - Sogawa et al (2025)
- Cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) with mirror self-recognition (MSR) capacity precisely realize their body size based on their mental image - Kobayashi et al (2024)
- Coral spawning patterns (Thailand): synchronised annual daytime spawning (spawning patterns in Pavona corals, Indo-Pacific) - Mehrotra et al (2026)
- Coral Genetic Structure Mirrors Ocean Circulation and Thermal Stress History (W. Indian Ocean) - Guillaume et al (2025)
- Larval dispersal networks explain geographically independent connectivity among coral habitats (Kuroshio Corridor, Japan) - Saito et al (2026) preprint
- World’s largest coral colony discovered off Australian coast by mother-daughter team (GBR) - by Jack Guy (CNN, 25 Feb)
- Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life - by Ajit Niranjan (Guardian); 'Long-term warming reduces fish biomass' (Chaikin et al, 2026)
- Climate refugia for coral reefs persist into 2050: Machine-learning models of coral cover and life histories - Zawada et al (2026) preprint
- Grounds, Beds, and Reefs of the Endangered Coral Cladocora caespitosa - Chimienti et al (2026)
- Increased disease prevalence in a warming peripheral reef setting (Abu Dhabi) - Riegl et al (2026)
- Shading Acropora kenti during doldrum-like conditions can reduce mortality risk during high-thermal stress events - Butcherine et al (2026)
- Autonomous reef monitoring structures as a tool for assessing UK marine benthic biodiversity - Jordan et al (2026)
- Marine fogging as a coral bleaching intervention method - Hendrickson et al (2026)
- Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity - Wiederkehr et al (2026)
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC): Tuna fishery of Pakistan - by Moazzam (WPSE02, 2025)
- Marine Cetaceans accumulate liquid crystal monomers released from LCD displays, triggering health concerns - Tao et al (2026)
- Chemical bleaching severity determines uptake of heat-evolved Symbiodiniaceae in corals - Allen et al (2026) preprint
- Widespread bioaccumulation of contaminants in Pocillopora favosa (Red Sea) - Branco et al (2026)
- Coral Species: Conservation and Sustainable Management in Japan’s Precious Coral Fishery - Takata et al (2026)
- Thermal Bleaching Events: the Non-scleractinian Reef Inhabitants of the Lakshadweep Atolls - Anto et al (2026)
- Tropical cyclone effects on coral reef habitat and fish assemblages (GBR) - Srinivasan et al (2026)
- Menthol-induced bleaching protocol for staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis (Caribbean) - Klinges at al (2026)
- Reef researchers explore polyp prototypes to promote coral larvae settlement - by Nikki Sorbello (ABC, 23 Feb)
- Sea level is higher than we thought, and millions more are at risk - by AP News (5 Mar)
- Patterns of coral community composition along Suva, a Pacific Island urban reef system - Dehm et al (2026)
- Effect of marine reserve status on coral seeding in the inshore Great Barrier Reef - Whitman et al (2026)
- Stony coral populations: Demographic shifts during the 2023-2024 marine heat wave (Mexico) - Rioja-Nieto et al (2026)
- Dynamics of Coral Rubble in Natural Settings - Su Zhou (2026) PhD thesis
- Persistence of coral reef structures into the 21st century - Cornwall et al (2026) - future remains bleak for corals
- Coral rubble facilitates feeding opportunities for invertivorous reef fishes on tropical coral reefs - Goberdhan et al (2026) preprint
- Integrating spatial patterns of herbivorous fish functional diversity to inform coral reef management - Stuart et al (2026)
- Turtle Nesting Beaches: Vulnerability to Future Erosion and Sea Level Rise - Christiaanse et al (2026)
- Diving behavior of juvenile green turtles in shallow habitats in the Bahamas - Doñate-Ordóñez et al (2026)
- Status and Trends of Coral Reefs of the Pacific: 1980 – 2023 - Wicquart et al (2025) - major report by GCRMN & ICRI
- Younger than the pyramids: teaching students how the Maldives really formed - by Ahmed Naish (Maldives Independent, 4 Mar)
- The energetic consequences of oxygen fluxes in a coral reef fish - Ripley et al (2026)
- Exploring co-culture systems: the use of microherbivore grazing in coral propagation [PDF] - by Bibi Haring (MSc thesis)
- Towards a systematic framework to assess restoration success of interventions in coral reef ecosystems - Croquer et al (2026)
- Sediment and wave energy influence bleaching and demography in the coral Acropora cervicornis - Cunio & Mercado-Molina (2026) - Beyond heat
- Global Marine Fishery Stock Productivity Under Climate Change - Ma et al (2026)
- Growth rates of coral reefs peaked at 25C through the Holocene - Macedo & van Woesik (2026)
- Lakshadweep: Assessment of waste management practices and environmental implications in Minicoy Island - Mahalanobis et al (2026)
- Coral reef management through community involvement (Thailand) - Kiatkajornphan et al (2026)
- First record of glitter particles in coral reefs from a remote archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean - Queiroz et al (2026)
- Outcomes of the fourth global coral bleaching (2023–2024) in the Maldives - Montefalcone et al (2026)
- Crown-of-thorns starfish: scooter-assisted large area diver-based (SALAD) surveys (GBR) - Pratchett et al (2026)
- The State Of The World’s Sea Turtles: SWOT Report #21 - Atlas of Global Sea Turtle Status (2026)
- Drivers of social preferences and social interactions within a bull shark aggregation in Fiji - Marosi et al (2026) - article "Bull sharks have friends"
- Comparative lipidomics of a temperate and a subtropical coral under acute temperature stress - La Motta et al (2026)
- Microplastic Chronological Record of Contamination: Coral Skeletons Reveal Increasing Microplastic Diversity (Indonesia) - Rahmatsyah et al (2026)
- Variations in Hard Coral and Macroalgal Cover in Response to the 2023 El Niño (Tangalle, Sri Lanka) - Geeganage et al (2026)
- Aquarium trade: Ornamental coral pests and parasites - Cardoso et al (2026)
- Microplastics in the Adjacent Feeding Area of Corals (Veracruz, Mexico) - Morán-Silva et al (2026)
- Coral spawning in East Africa: first in situ observations from Zanzibar for three reef-building species - Lillis & Jiddawi (2026)
- International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS): 43rd Symposium (Ghana 2025) - Abbeyquaye et al (February 2026)
- Sea turtle hatchlings: Is it really 1 in 1000 that survive to adulthood? - Hays et al (2026)
- Coral spawning: first in situ observations from Zanzibar for three reef-building species - Lillis & Jiddawi (2026)
- Persistent Legacy Effects of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Symbioses - Buzzoni et al (2026)
- Microplastics in Coastal Sediments of Urban and Rural Islands in the Maldives - Dhunya et al (2026) paywalled
- Hydrodynamics shapes annularity in coral reefs via scale-free growth processes [PDF] - Llabrés et al (2026) Hawai‘i & Maldives
- Juvenile Coral Mortality and Implications for Reef Recovery and Restoration [PDF] - Devin Alissa Rowell (MSc thesis)
- Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity - Gahan et al (2026)
- A review of ecological risks of coral reef interventions - Hammerman et al (2026)
- Contaminants in coral reef ecosystems: occurrence, distribution, toxic mechanisms, ecological risks - Xiang et al (2026)
- Map the Giants: a new citizen-science portal to map, study and protect the largest coral colonies - Siena et al (2026)
- Strong coral replenishment indicates reefs remain resilient following mass bleaching (Laamu Atoll, Maldives) - Davies et al (2026) preprint (2022 survey following the 2016 bleaching)
- Assessing coral nursery performance on reefs under bleaching and anthropogenic pressures (NE Brazil) - Massei et al (2026)
- Estimates of habitat selection reveal distinct habitat associations across life-stages in three coral-reef damselfish - Sciamma et al (2026) preprint
- Assessing the Prevalence of SCUBA Noise in Reef Ecosystems: Implications for Recreational Diving Impacts - Lin et al (2026)
- Marine reef soundscape monitoring with fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing - Ariff et al (2025)
- Coral Matters: The Coral Reef Research Hub Magazine (April 2026 issue) - Coral Restoration Special!
- Coral Bleaching Patterns From a Percentile-Based Threshold Model - Li Shing Hiung et al (2026)
- Coral Probiotics Buffer Adjacent Ecosystem-Level Responses to Extreme Marine Heatwave - El-Khaled et al (2026) preprint
- Coral larvae exposed to organic and inorganic settlement cues: chemotactic behaviors (Caribbean) - Deshpande et al (2025)
- Coral seeding deployments on turbid nearshore reefs (GBR) - Page et al (2026)
- Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change - Humanes et al (2026) Newcastle University
- Thermal stress reveals contrasting bleaching and trophic patterns in two octocorals (SW Atlantic) - Pinheiro et al (2026)
- Maintenance cost of photosynthesis sets key ecological constraints on zooxanthellate corals - Gomez-Campo, et al (2026) preprint
- Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic - ten Hietbrink et al (2025) microplastics
- Nanoplastic: Scientists solved the mystery of missing ocean plastic, and the answer is alarming - (Sciencedaily, 29 Mar) microplastics
- Coral restoration alters reef soundscapes but machine learning and manual analyses suggest different recovery rates - Croasdale et al (2026) preprint
- Benthic bacteria communities of coral reefs are shaped by sediment properties rather than coral trophic state (GBR) - Pin et al (2026)
- The Manta Trust: Impact Report 2025 - Dr Guy Stevens et al (Apr 2026)
- Carbonate budget of an exposed atoll reef flat (Kelaihuttaa / ‘Kalhe Huttaa’, Huvadhu atoll, Maldives) - Law et al (2026)
- Fate-tracking of Acropora cervicornis colonies post-outplanting reveals genotype-specific responses to marine heatwaves - Goodbody-Gringley et al (2026)
- Marine Platyhelminthes of the Maldives: A Review of Their Diversity and Distribution - Concari et al (2026)
- Relationship between Symbiodiniaceae chlorophyll-a concentration and cell density in scleractinian corals - Hulver et al (2026)
- Pathogen priming reveals host immune training and microbiome conditioning in corals - Monti et al (2026) preprint
- Accelerating coral-assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change [shared PDF] - Humanes et al (2026)
- World-first study exposes the breadth of bottom-trawling’s catch - by Rob Hutchins (Oceanographic Magazine)
- Identifying suitable habitats under climate change for non-targeted demersal fish (Mediterranean) - Orfanidis et al (2026)
- Coral restoration: roles of shelter for herbivores and reef state in early recruitment success - Dilley et al (2026)
- Multi-scale collapse of coral cover under climate change - Cresswell et al (2026) preprint
- Spatial variability of benthic community composition: Management Effects and Atoll-scale Differentiation (Maldives) - Cristina Gotta (2026) thesis
- Contrasting patterns of seascape genetics in Acropora cf. tenuis and their symbiotic algae - Bos et al (2026) preprint
- Coral Reef Hydrodynamics: A Critical Review of Roughness Indices and Their Characteristic Complexity - Karim et al (2026)
- Pre-Settling Behavior Leading the Planula Larva to Settlement in the Coral Acropora - Ishikawa & Hatta (2026)
- Larval transcriptomic responses of Acropora tenuis to Durusdinium strains - Yoshioka et al (2026)
- Environmental history shapes thermal tolerance in Hawaiian corals (Montipora capitata and Porites compressa) - Klein et al (2026) preprint
- Mushroom slime removes up to 98.4% of microplastics from water - by Shinshu University (14 Apr)
- Distribution of a rarely encountered stingray (Megatrygon microps): a systematic review - Keeping et al (2026)
- Stepping-stone larval dispersal networks maintain broad-scale connectivity across the Indo-West Pacific - Saito et al (2026)
- Choice of traits defines the scope for assisted evolution of corals under climate change - Lachs et al (2026) - article by Liam Lachs (Conversation, 17 Apr)
- Corals and Reef-Dwelling Fish Regulate Carbon Storage and Cycling Processes in Coral Reef Ecosystems - Chen et al (2026)
- Long-term wild recovery and resilience of green turtles Chelonia mydas to various anthropogenic injuries - Fong et al (2026)
- Coral reef ecosystem functions in a human-dominated world - Parravicini et al (2026) preprint
- Evaluating pump-assisted larval transfer for scaling coral larval restoration interventions - Waters et al (2026)
- From coral reefs to gorgonian forests: Shared cues and hierarchical settlement in a temperate octocoral (Paramuricea sp.) - Egger et al (2026) preprint
- Status of coral bleaching in the Maldives 2016 - Ibrahim et al (2017)
- Maldives Coral Bleaching Response Plan - Ibrahim et al (2017)
- Anthropogenic influence on the benthic community structure of reef flats in South Huvadhu atoll of the Maldives - Nizam Ibrahim (2019)
- Through all the gloom, signs of resilience in Maldives reefs - Solandt & Ibrahim et al (2017)
- Green Turtle Foraging Aggregations: Mark-Resight Data and Standardized Site Fidelity Index - Fong et al (2026)
- Plastic is not fantastic: drivers and solutions to mangrove plastic pollution in Cebu, Philippines - by Marie Touchon (thesis)
- Loggerhead sea turtles emergent pathway: California Current System - Briscoe et al (2026) - Promise or peril in a warming ocean?
- Hermatypic octocoral Tubipora musica: Phylogenomics unveils the overlooked diversity and endemism - Macrina et al (2026)
- Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change - McClanahan et al (2023)
- Moonrise timing is key for synchronized spawning in coral Dipsastraea speciosa (Taiwan) - Lin et al (2021)
- Heat-evolved coral photosymbionts exhibit dampened stress responses across distinct physiological contexts - Johnston et al (2026)
- Capturing the dimensions of coral reef biodiversity - McWilliam et al (2026)
- Limited source–sink connections shape SW Pacific coral reef resilience under current and future warming - Dehont et al (2026)
- Collaborative pathways to confront the coral reef crisis - Edmunds et al (2026)
- Population structure and gene flow in the endangered Caribbean reef-building coral, Acropora palmata - Baums et al (2026)
- Impact of Thermal Bleaching Events on the Non-scleractinian Reef Inhabitants of the Lakshadweep Atolls - Anto et al (2026)
- Carbonate framework and sediment production across island-fringing coral reef habitats (Chagos) - Lange et al (2026) preprint
- Foraminifera Analyses: reconstructing variability, seasonality and extremes (tropical Indian Ocean) - Lichterfeld et al (2026) preprint
- Burrowing sea urchins as agents of coral reef bioerosion - Jaishankar et al (2026) preprint
- Mangrove species occurrence in relation to habitat types: Insights from the Maldives - Cerri et al (2026)
- High coral thermal tolerance at a potentially climate-resistant reef - Quigley et al (2026)
- Sponges are celebrated heterotrophs but also key primary producers on changing coral reefs - Achlatis et al (2026) preprint
- The rise and fall of the world’s greatest marine biodiversity hotspot - Siqueira et al (2026)
- Early experimental comparison of natural and assisted symbiont acquisition in Stylophora pistillata - Isa et al (2026)
- Ecological and behavioural responses of butterflyfishes to coral reef restoration - Maserati et al (2026) preprint
- Coral reproductive phenology in the Gulf of Panamá (Pavona gigantea and Psammocora stellata) - Colley et al (2026)
- Plastic pollution in coral reef ecosystems: Occurrence, impacts, and interactions - Reichert et al (2026)
- Massive marine heatwave caused Caribbean coral reefs to collapse much faster than predicted - Alvarez-Filip & Perry (2026) - The Conversation
- Geographical differences in marine heatwaves across global coral reef zones - Yao & Wang (2026)
- Mapping Maldives: navigation, shipwrecks, and cartography in the heart of the Indian Ocean - Stelten & Van Duivenvoorde (2026) historical maps
- Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production - Cornwall et al (2023)
- Global coral bleaching event #4: ushering in an era of near-annual bleaching - Spady et al (2026)
- Breakdown of microbial networks links nutrient stress and reef coral disease - Gracie et al (2026)
- Effects of pre-spawning heat-stress on the fecundity of Acropora aspera - Le Nohaic et al (2026) preprint
- Effect of benthic organisms on Acropora palmata fragment survival and growth - Romero et al (2026) preprint
- Advancing reef restoration with thermal preconditioning interventions (Montastraea & Orbicella) - Blanco-Pimentel et al (2026) preprint
- Toxicity of three insecticides and two fungicides to Acropora tenuis coral larvae - Mueller et al (2026) AIMS
- Ecological function of herbivorous fish in coral reef ecosystem and their roles in promoting reef resilience - Mohamad Rodzi et al (2026)
- Proximity and current alignment drive fertilisation success in a broadcast-spawning coral (Acropora cf. hyacinthus) - Ricardo et al (2026) preprint
- Crustose coralline algae microbiomes: role on coral larval settlement (GBR) - Turnlund et al (2026)
- Bleaching severity mediated by reef shape, position and flow regime (GBR) - Turnbull et al (2026)
- Autonomous Float Data Reveal Decoupled Trends in Chlorophyll and Stratification in the Indian Ocean - Ishaque et al (2026)
- Reducing sand mining’s growing toll on marine biodiversity - Torres et al (2025)
- Sand and Sustainability: An Essential Resource for Nature and Development - major UNEP report (incl. Maldives) 2026
- Reducing local stressors enhances the resistance to global stressors (Mussismilia coral & Palythoa zoantharian) - Mariano et al (2026)
- Seasonal microbiome community dynamics in the massive coral Porites lobata impacted by sedimentation - Berg et al (2026) preprint
- Comparing Microbial Communities of Diseased and Healthy Isopora palifera Corals (Cocos/Keeling Islands) - Preston et al (2026)
- White plague disease on Caribbean reefs: A predictive trait space model - Williams et al (2026)
- Nutrient enrichment strengthens feedbacks that promote coral-to-macroalgae regime shifts - Gallagher et al (2026)
- Both small-scale microhabitat preference and large-scale spatial complexity influence coral rubble bed infauna - Taylor et al (2026) preprint
- Reef manta ray aggregations: driven by prey availability and fine-scale oceanography (Hanifaru, Maldives) - Moloney et al (2026) preprint
- Environmental drivers of metabolomic profiles within and between cryptic lineages of Montastraea cavernosa - Gallery et al (2026) preprint
- Elasmobranch diversity and relative abundance: Temporal and spatial drivers (Lhaviyani Atoll, Maldives) - Vizeu-Pinheiro et al (2026)
- Green Turtles: Ecological Insights and Management Implications of Global Migratory Connectivity - Restrepo et al (2026)
- India’s Blue Water Ambitions: A Vision of Sea Power and Sustainable Ocean [PDF] - Bardhan et al (2026)
- Coral Reef Communities of Astola Island: Pakistan’s First Marine Protected Area [PDF] - Khan et al (2026)
- Sea turtles: Male scarcity is obscured by optimistic artefacts and breeding/paternity misinterpretations - Paolo Casale (2026)
- Micro-fragmentation of four coral species towards the assembly of modular 3D structures for restoration - Oren et al (2026) preprint
- Deep Reef Refugia: Horizontal and Vertical Genomic Connectivity of Seriatopora hystrix (Japan) - Takata et al (2026)
- Minimising Risks of Reduced Genetic Diversity in Marine Restoration - Wood et al (2026)
- Population structures of reef-building corals and their algal symbionts inform adaptive potential (W. Pacific) - Denis et al (2026)
- Coral size patterns across environmental gradients and morphologies - Lechene et al (2026)
- Food and beverage plastics dominate global shorelines - Kelly et al (2026)
- Marine plastic pollution and bioplastic alternatives: a review - Ali et al (2026)
- Pioneering insights into the diving behavior of early-stage sea turtles - Candela et al (2026) preprint
- Seasonal Upwelling Shapes Coral Reef Community Structure and Photophysiology (Costa Rica) - Golomb et al (2026) preprint
- Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increase coral deoxygenation (Porites lutea) - Pacherres et al (2026)
- Microplastics invading corals: first scientific evidence from the Philippine Coral Triangle - Castillo et al (2026)
- Causes and Correlates of Unsustainable Scuba Diving Tourism on Coral Reefs - Lin et al (2026)
- Human disturbance on coral health and resilience (Micronesia) - Chille et al (2026)
- Turbid coral reefs exhibit high tolerance to successive extreme heat stress events (NW Australia) - Bassett et al (2026)
- Impact of the 2024 coral bleaching event on corals at a remote atoll (French Polynesia) - Juncker et al (2026)
- Blacktip Reef Sharks: Influence of Alpha Female Absence in Diver-Interaction Contexts (Indonesia) - Susilo et al (2026)
- Introduced species will not save Caribbean coral reefs - Ritson-Williams et al (2026) letter
- Tiger sharks: influenced by monsoon variability and sea surface temperature (Fuvahmulah, Maldives) - Perisic et al (2026)
- Coral reef assessment methods on benthic and substrate compositions - Hadi et al (2026)
- Variation in fish assemblages across coral nurseries stocked for reef restoration (Great Barrier Reef, GBR) - Gillette et al (2026)
- Artificial reefs as functional substitutes? insights from a nine-year reef fish monitoring in Madeira - Neves et al (2026)
- Evaluating the predictive capacity of coral reef resilience assessments - McCarthy et al (2026) preprint
- World’s Fourth Mass Coral Bleaching Event Likely Ended in 2025 - NOAA feature
- Remnant hollowed out dead coral skeleton branches defer coral community recovery - Scafidi et al (2026) - article by Ryan Green (Pulitzer Center, 1 June): Coral Reefs Stuck Between Life and Death
- Characterising the mycobiome of healthy and wounded reef sharks (Seychelles) - Iddon et al (2026)
- Coral Intel: a YOLOv8 deep learning framework for monitoring Caribbean corals - Cordero et al (2026)
- Tracking Fin-Prints on Reef Flats: A Genus-Specific eDNA Metabarcoding Assay for Epaulette Sharks (Hemiscyllium spp.) - Prabowo et al (2026)
- Comparative somatic genomics reveals divergent development of cell lineages across scleractinian corals - Conn et al (2026) preprint
- Diversity, host-specificity, and environmental drivers of the coral reef eukaryome - del Rio-Hortega et al (2026) preprint
- Stress‐Resistant Symbiodiniaceae and Diverse Bacterial Communities Promote Coral Persistence - Powell et al (2026)
- Restoration stocks of a caribbean coral species contain low levels of inherent stony coral tissue loss disease resistance - Williams et al (2026)
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Spatial Use: Implications for Conservation (Colombian Pacific) - Amorocho et al (2026) - Satellite telemetry
- Seascape Connectivity Shapes Genetic and Species β-Diversity in Tropical Reef Fishes - Vilcot et al (2026)
- Dispersal behavior in a cold-water coral is orchestrated via stage and species-specific physiology - Lønnum et al (2026)
- Toward a standardized framework for measuring biodiversity credits in marine animal forest restoration - Shefy et al (2026)
- Sea turtles: Determining abundance and survival at foraging areas using multiple analytical methods - Foley et al (2026)
- Global Warming Threatens Corals Worldwide: Can ‘Super Reefs’ Take the Heat? - by Teresa Tomassoni (14 Jun, insideclimatenews)
- Mangrove Use by Spotted Eagle Rays (Aetobatus ocellatus) via Drone‐Based Observation (Maldives) - Senna et al (2026)
- Modern Coral Taxonomy Requires Biologically Relevant Evidence - Veron et al (2026) - Coral Taxonomy, Evolution and Diversity - Veron et al (2025)
- Shark aggregations and ecology in the Maldives: survey protocol by non-invasive methods - Andrea Parmegiani (2026) PhD thesis
- World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia - by Peter de Kruijff (ABC, 11 Jun)
- Operationalizing biodiversity credits to catalyze coral reef management and investment - Pratchett et al (2026)
- Testing coir (coconut) fiber as a novel, biodegradable material for coral reef restoration - Phillips et al (2026)
- Survival of coral juveniles at mesophotic depth during the massive bleaching event - Sitorus et al (2026)
- Macroalgal removal increases calcifier abundance and promotes coral settlement on inshore reefs - Williams et al (2026)
- Reef fish assemblages impacted by sponges overgrowing corals - González-Murcia et al (2026)
- Multiscale patterns of sponge diversity on coral reefs: insights from Gulf of Mexico and Mexican Caribbean - Ugalde et al (2026)
- Remote sensing reveals nesting habitat vulnerability for sea turtles in Costa Rica over forty years - Cordero-Umaña & Tomillo (2026)
- Sea Turtle Bycatch and Mitigation in the Indian Ocean and SE Asia Region - by IOSEA Marine Turtles - World Sea Turtle Day (report, 16 Jun)
- Ocean monitoring is in trouble: without the US, it’s up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world’s deep‑sea ecosystems - Sabrina Speich et al (Conversation, 9 Jun)
- World Ocean Assessment (WOA III) - by the UN - Severe stress on oceans (Karen McVeigh, Guardian, 8 Jun)
- Local Communities Harmed by Reclamation Projects in the Maldives: “We Still Haven’t Recovered” - HRW 2023
- Rise of “baby coral killers” could hold back reef recovery - Maldives Coral Institute (14 Jun) local news
- Global impacts of drifting fish aggregating devices on marine protected areas - Schiller et al (2026)
- Sediment burial reduces coral larval settlement, recruit survivorship, and inhibits the recovery of coral populations - Rodriguez-Ruano et al (2026)
- On the collapse of an endemic reef-building coral species (Mussismilia harttii) - Morais et al (2026)
- Species-specific light spectrum optimization for coral grow-out - Abrams et al (2026)
- Extensive coral bleaching and mortality in the central Red Sea during the fourth global coral bleaching event - Dunn et al (2026)
- Life in colour: The influence of habitat colouration on the recruitment of coral reef fish - Rapolthy et al (2026)
- Assessing Coral Reef Stress in Indonesia by Combining SST and Ocean Color Data - Chintya et al (2026)
- Distribution and Photo-Physiology of Coral Communities along Depth Gradients (Red Sea) - Taylor et al (2026) preprint
- Temperate reef states shape fish contributions to nature and people after marine heatwaves - Filz et al (2026)
- Marine heatwave impacts on juvenile growth depend on timing of exposure in a coral reef damselfish - Yasutake & Donelson (2026)
- Tropical climate modes control strength and distribution of thermal stress mitigation in a coral reef refugia - Camelia et al (2026)
- Coral settlement module designs for scalable reef restoration - Reichert et al (2026) preprint
- Early life trade-offs in corals selected for adult heat tolerance are absent under heat stress - Humanes et al (2026)
- Low flow enhances pigmentation and lipid reserves but reduces survival in newly settled Acropora digitifera corals - Jurriaans et al (2026)
- Comparative ecology and management of crown-of-thorns starfish and long-spined sea urchins (GBR) - Tebbett et al (2026)
- Assisted evolution of corals and their symbionts enhances recruit heat-tolerance but with complex outcomes - Lamb et al (2026)
- Advancing coastal and marine ecological restoration in Australia - Coleman et al (2026)
- Extreme weather effects on marine predator breeding outcomes in a global climate change hotspot - Sojitra et al (2026)
- Paleorecords inform the limits of Indo-Pacific coral reef survival under accelerating sea-level rise - Ramos et al (2026)
- Coral reef hydrodynamics from different perspectives [PDF] - Jiang & Yao (2026)
- Developing novel hybrid reefs to provide both wave energy reduction and opportunities for ecological restoration - Norris et al (2026)
- Signs of hope for Ningaloo Reef with baby coral following bleaching and cyclones - ABC News (22 Jun)
- Great Barrier Reef’s long-term monitoring program celebrates 40 years - ABC News (8 Jul)
- Records of compass heading show mid-ocean reorientation for long-distance ocean migrators, green turtles (Chelonia mydas) - Hays et al (2026)
- Foraging ecology of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle in the Gulf of Guinea - Vieira et al (2026)
- Crustose coralline algae, algal turfs, and coral reef calcification - Tebbett et al (2026)
- Responses to Heat Stress in the Scleractinian Coral Galaxea fascicularis and the Soft Coral Clavularia inflata - Zhu et al (2026) preprint
- Effects of acoustic enrichment on settlement of a critically endangered broadcast spawning coral - Aoki et al (2026)
- Patterns of coral disease distribution, frequency, and host susceptibility (Oman) - Thinesh et al (2026)
- Coral-associated fishes accelerate coral wound healing and photosynthetic recovery (Pocillopora) - Vega et al (2026)
- Corals susceptibility to crown-of-thorns sea star predation: contrasting defensive strategies - Gorman et al (2026) preprint
- Ceramic 3D printed design “Reef-Plant”: assessment for coral out-planting - Engel et al (2026)
- Gametogenesis, spawning timing, and fertilization success of Acropora yongei (Indonesia) - Arnenda et al (2026)
- Mesophotic octocoral larval settlement preferences and behaviors - McCauley et al (2026)
- Linking seaweed farming with coral restoration: Bioremediation boosts early coral survivorship (Hawaiʻi) - Brown et al (2026)
- Predicting Coral Offspring Survival From Reef Thermal Histories (Ningaloo, Australia) - Nobre et al (2026)
- Changes in fish assemblages across mesophotic reef habitats - Hellmrich et al (2026)
- Coral physiological responses to heat stress across a natural turbidity gradient - Bassett et al (2026)
- Coral restoration under the chronic persistence of stony coral tissue loss disease (Florida) - Sharp et al (2026)
- Coral reef and mangrove interplay during Holocene sea level changes (Indonesia) - Solihuddin et al (2026)
- FragSize: computer vision models to monitor massive coral fragment growth in a coral nursery (Caribbean) - Villa et al (2026)
- Extreme flooding, water quality and mass bleaching compounded impacts in Elkhorn coral (Puerto Rico) - Hernández-Delgado et al (2026)
- Animal Husbandry to Combat Conservation Bottlenecks in Massive Coral Species - Sophia Ippolito (2026) thesis - 'grazing blocks' deter parrotfish
- Bleaching Dynamics & Zooxanthellae Responses of Acropora & Montipora Under Ex-Situ Thermal Stress - Wahyudi et al (2026)
- Daily feeding rates of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish vary with body size and coral cover (GBR) - Chandler et al (2026)
- Host–Symbiont Dynamics in Reef-Building Corals: Seasonal Physiological Strategies (Indo-Pacific) - Huffmyer et al (2026)
- High relatedness in sexually produced restoration cohorts of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) - Kenkel et al (2026) preprint
- ‘Coral Guard’ substrates accelerate growth and fragment fusion for coral restoration - Kolle et al (2026)
- Florida Keys Marine Laboratory prepares for historic El Niño threat to Coral Reefs - by Matthew Cimitile (USF, 7 July)
- Sea turtle watercraft injuries: anatomical location and severity - Kincaid et al (2026)
- Seagrass fish assemblages: Community structure and functional diversity in an oceanic atoll system (Maldives) - Floyd et al (2026)
- Land‑based inputs drive demographic feedbacks in a tropical brooding coral (Pocillopora acuta) [PDF] - Merges et al (2026)
- Killer whales (Orcinus orca): Distribution, movements and feeding ecology in tropical waters (SW Indian Ocean) - Maeva Terrapon (2026) thesis
- Global floating algae blooms are expanding - Qi et al (2025)
- Morphological and trophic coupling distinguishes coral clades along a light gradient - Lindsay et al (2026)
- Chlorophyll-a as a Proxy for Coral Bleaching Factors Across Reef Environments - Cornet et al (2026)
- Coral parasite resists antibiotic exposure and thermal challenge in Acropora cervicornis - Patton et al (2026) preprint
- Persistence of the coral Porites harrisoni is underpinned by strong selection on few genomic loci (Persian Gulf) - Fiesinger et al (2026) preprint
- Near-term impacts of the 2024 mass coral bleaching event on benthic and fish communities (Japan) - Kimura et al (2026) preprint
- Predicting the feasibility of Crown-of-Thorns control in space and time to improve coral protection (GBR) - Bode et al (2026)
- Concurrent thermal stress and flood-plume disturbance drive rapid coral community change on an inshore intertidal reef (GBR) - Waller et al (2026)
- Bleaching in scleractinian corals: a comparison across life-history strategies (GBR) - Washington & Hoogenboom (2026)
- Floating Reefs as Self-Sustaining Biodiversity Hubs - Shefy et al (2026)
- Mosquito Control: Transition Framework for Reducing Pesticides (Maldivian Resorts) - Knols et al (2026) Maldives
- Post-hatchling sea turtle dispersal in a dynamic North Atlantic Ocean - Arendt & Putman (2026)
- Sun-coral colonies (Tubastraea) invasion on a near-reef triggers alternative macrofauna dynamics - de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Savio et al (2026)
- Origin and impacts of ploidy variation in the coral Pocillopora acuta in Hawai‘i - Johnston et al (2026)
- Bleached coral recovers after cyclone cools sea temperature (Lady Elliot Island, GBR) - ABC News (1 Aug)
- When the ocean reaches further (wave-induced flooding) in Maldives [May-Aug] - by Dr Nashwan Matheen [Maldives Independent]
- Permits, pay and geography: why Maldivian scientists are missing from their own marine research - by Nizam Ibrahim (MBR, 12 Aug) local news
- Corallivorous Fishes on Coral Reefs: Evolutionary History and Morphological Divergence - Marrable et al (2026)
- Key coral symbiont lineages (Symbiodiniaceae): stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) - Karrick et al (2026)
- Coral Transplantation: A Systematic Review of Clustered Versus Widespread Spatial Strategies - Shefy et al (2026)
- Trophic Antioxidant Transfer as a Measure for Scalable Coral Conservation Strategies - Dorantes-Aranda et al (2026)
- Coral Reef Rescue Initiative (Refreshed Strategic Plan 2026-2032) [PDF] - Goby et al (2026) Global CRRI
- Sea turtles: hundreds are stranded each year (Cape Cod, USA) - by Erin McCormick (Guardian, 15 Aug) rescue network
- Coral microbiome stewardship: From holobiont restoration to ecosystem resilience - Peixoto et al (2026)
- Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.): increasing imperative to manage ongoing coral reef degradation - Pratchett et al (2026)
- Coral reefs: detection and classification of biological and anthropogenic sounds - Duane et al (2026)
- Seeded corals: Testing a site-prioritisation framework to maximise survival - Alvarez-Noriega et al (2026)
- Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2025-26 (GBR) - AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program
- Coral bleaching events have eroded reef accretion potential in the Florida Keys (USA) - Toth & Courtney (2026)
- Evaluating the use of live rock in closed-system aquaria with mesophotic corals - Aquilina-Beck et al (2026)
- Coral acclimatization to novel, co-varying stressors is associated with fitness trade-offs - Solomon et al (2026)
- Mangrove-Mediated Coastal Flood Protection: Hydrodynamic Modelling (Systematic Review) - Zakaria et al (2026)
- Coral–macroalgae interactions across heterogeneous reef environments - López-Jiménez & Eirin-Lopez (2026)
- Mangrove colonization drivers in the uplifted coral reefs and sea beds in the N.Andamans (India) - Singh & Prabakaran (2026)
- Escalating marine heatwaves drive taxonomic and functional trait loss in the world’s warmest coral reefs - Zinman et al (2026)
- WIO-ReefFish: A High-Resolution Dataset for Taxon-Aware Coral Reef Fish Detection (W. Indian Ocean) - Gerard et al (2026)
- Sea turtles: Creation & licensing of digital models from plastinated head specimens - Edling et al (2026)
- Sea turtles: Wave disturbance as a driver of reduced natality (Florida, USA) - Ceriani et al (2026)
- Fine-scale thermal stress heterogeneity decouples bleaching from mortality across a Caribbean fringing reef - Alvarez-Filip et al (2026) preprint
- Killer Whales (Orcinus orca): Distribution, Population, Ecology (Indo-Pacific) - Paola Lacetera et al (2026)
- Invertivore fish predation is an overlooked source of carbonate sediment on a turbid coral reef - Nilsen et al (2026)
- Genotype-specific microbiome responses of Acropora cervicornis to nutrient enrichment and disease stress - Rosales et al (2026)
- Development of methods for coral spawning, fertilization, larval husbandry, and settlement (Astrangia poculata) - Borbee et al (2026)
- Airborne and marine microplastics: decoupled pathways traced by black carbon (Indian Ocean) - Markuszewski et al (2026) preprint
- Unconventional coastal pollution sources and their environmental impacts: a global review of invisible pressures - Rangel-Buitrago et al (2026) preprint
- Algae-specific immune modulation influences responses to heat and pathogen challenge in a symbiotic coral - Da-Anoy et al (2026)
- High-resolution mapping of artificial reefs: Linking sonar-derived habitat metrics to reef construction material and design (California) - Claisse et al (2026)
- Crown-of-thorns starfish and coral monitoring design (GBR) [PDF] - Lawrence et al (2026) COTS Control Innovation Program
- Coral Reefs Journal of the International Coral Reef Society - Vol. 45, Issue 4 (Aug 2026)
- Widespread coral bleaching across subtropical and temperate Japan under record marine heat stress - Kurihara et al (2026)
- World’s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August - by Damian Carrington (Guardian, 24 Aug)
- Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2025 - González-Rivero et al (Aug 2026) GCRMN, AIMS, ICRI
- CoralAssist Plug: a novel device with built-in microrefugia for settling, rearing and rapidly outplanting corals - van der Steeg et al (2026) preprint
- Live Coral and Seagrass Cover: Using Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy - Malthus et al (2026)
- Sea Turtle Symposium #44 (Hawai’i, USA, 2026) - International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS, Aug 2026)
- Natural frequencies of hybridization in Caribbean reef-building corals - Sotka et al (2026)
- Coral reef sponges: Bottom-up control (for better and for worse) - Janie Wulff (2026)
- Low-Frequency Wave Dynamics over a Fringing Reef [PDF] - Margot Giliam (thesis, 2026)
- Seagrass fisheries expose the poverty dimensions of marine conservation (Indo-Pacific) - Jones et al (2026)
- Coral reef carbonate production estimates using underwater photogrammetry (full-spur mapping) - Molina-Hernández et al (2026)
- Kelp forest collapse alters the reef microbiome and associated metabolome - Farrell et al (2026)
- African Journal of Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation (AJST) #6 - Manjula Tiwari (Editor) et al 2026
- Coral metabolomic diversity is associated with restoration success - Raker et al (2026)
- Advancing Symbiodiniaceae Functional Ecology Through a Trait-Based Framework - Bauer et al (2026)
- Bioactive Nanocoatings Encode Bacterial Settlement Cues for Coral Restoration - Kundu et al (2026)
- Cooling and shading corals: in-situ mitigation of bleaching through engineered refuges - Boitel et al (2026) preprint
- Parrotfish demonstrate little behavioural shift during marine heatwaves - Golanski et al (2026)
- As El Niño builds, Maldivian reefs are running out of time to recover - by Hassan Moosa (Maldives Independent, 10 Sept 2026)
- Reproductive patterns of massive Porites (Ningaloo, W. Australia) - Juszkiewicz et al (2026)
- Reef Shape: Influence on Fish Community Structure Around Coral Reefs (Saudi Arabia) - Alowaidi et al (2206)
- Microplastics Contamination in Marine Environment: Sources and Management Strategies - Hamdi et al (2026)
- Establishing the coral Galaxea fascicularis as a model for symbiosis research - Giulia Puntin (2026) dissertation
- Green sawfish (Pristis zijsron) Critically Endangered: current knowledge and future directions - Ingelbrecht et al (2026)
- Ghost fishing gear origins and impacts on loggerhead sea turtles entanglement (Mediterranean) - Segura-Alemany et al (2026)
- Global coral bleaching event #4 (Maldives): microbial & symbiont shifts of Acropora muricata and Porites lutea - Toniolo et al (2026) poster
- Global synthesis reveals that artificial reef units consistently augment fish assemblages - Haag et al (2026)
- Exposure to tetrabromopyrrole reliably induces settlement across Caribbean coral species - Sneed et al (2026) preprint
- Coral brown band disease: Histopathology of scuticociliate tissue loss (Philaster guamense) in Acropora cf. muricata (Maldives) - Bises et al (2026)
- Turbid coastal reefs act as paradoxical climate refugia for corals - Menezes et al (2026)
- Coral spat survival on inshore reefs is enhanced by foul-release-coated seeding devices - Montalvo-Proano et al (2026)
- Environmental filtering shapes patch dynamics across isolated mesophotic reefs - Pittoors et al (2026)
- Coral reef resilience is undermined by increasing nitrogen loading (Gulf of Mexico) - Jung et al (20260
- Fine-scale habitat heterogeneity and community structure shape coral health patterns in a remote Caribbean reef [PDF] - González-Díaz et al (2026)
- Reducing consumer pressure increases community dissimilarity leading to coral- or algal-dominance on a coral reef - Speare et al (2026)
- Coral outplanting success: Impacts of site preparation and fragment size - Juang et al (2026)
- Effects of seabird nutrient inputs on the productivity of coral reef fish communities - Laura-Li Jeannot (2026) PhD thesis
- Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles Had to Be Rescued More Than 1,100 Times on This Remote Island - Joe Spring (22 Sep)
- Thermal stress-induced metabolic reprogramming in two hard coral species - Montalbetti et al (2026)
- Coral Reef Sediment Dissolution: Global Projections in the 21st Century - Yan et al (2026)
- Thermal tolerance in Montipora capitata and Porites compressa corals (Hawaii) - Klein et al (2026)
- Adult corals enhance juvenile recruitment through cumulative ecological niche construction - Brambilla et al (2026) preprint
- CoralAssist Plug: a novel device that enhances outplant rate and survivorship of sexually propagated corals - van der Steeg et al (2026) preprint
- 30×30 Global Assessment 2026 (Ocean Protection Gap) - Campaign for Nature partners
- Sea Turtle: First Record of Triplet Embryos – Polyembryony in a Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas), Cuba - Azanza-Ricardo et al (2026)
- Climate-mediated population declines in the common Floridian coral, Porites astreoides - Vaughn et al (2026)
- Coral Nurture Program: a science–practitioner partnership for stewardship-based reef restoration - Camp et al (2026)
- Indian Ocean pelagic ecosystem: fisheries management and climate change scenarios - Amate et al (2026) IOTC-2026 (UN, FAO)
- Mycosporine-like amino acids in mangrove associated red algae of the Maldives - Nicolai et al (2026) preprint
- Cleaning station use in the rare stingray, Megatrygon microps - Keeping et al (2026)
- Larval success in crown-of-thorns seastar: light and short-term high food availability - Patel et al (2026)
- Coral Feeding Scars: Fate Following Predation by Crown‐of‐Thorns Seastars - Foo et al (2026)
- Damselfish influence on the coral holobiont (Acropora) - Bednarek et al (2026)
- Super El Niño is cooking coral reefs: can lullabies and probiotics save them? - by James Dinneen (Nature, 30 Sept 2026)
- Pteraeolidia semperi species complex (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia): Integrative systematics (Vietnam) - Meshik et al (2026)
- White-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon lepturus): Breeding biology (Maldives) - Cox et al (2026)
- Coral Grow-out Robotic Assessment System (CGRAS): Scaling Coral Recruit Monitoring Through Robotics and Computer Vision - Tsai et al (2026)
- Acropora cervicornis transcriptomes: nutrient- and disease-exposed in situ nursery samples - Grace et al (2026)
- Damsels in distress: acoustic and behavioural defences scale with predation risk in a coral reef fish - Soriano-Gonzalez et al (2026)
- Benthic communities and reef functionality throughout the fourth global coral bleaching event (Honduras) - Paden et al (2026)
- Sea turtles: Competition among males for breeding females as a measure of male abundance - Hays et al (2026)
- Hawksbill sea turtles: Abundance, distribution, and origins (Atlantic reefs, Florida Keys) - Wood et al (2026)
- New octocoral family (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Malacalcyonacea) from seamounts in the Pacific - Breedy et al (2026)
- Patterns in Coral Fecundity Across the Indo-Pacific - Bilodeau & Quigley (2026)
- Rapid loss, and slow recovery, of coral reef structural complexity resulting from a prolonged marine heatwave - Bruce et al (2026)
- Tunable underwater curcumin release through a three-layered film system to mitigate oxidative stress in corals - Rinaldi et al (2026)
- ☑️Strong coral recovery indicates reefs in Laamu Atoll, Maldives, remain resilient following mass bleaching - Davies et al (2026)
- ☑️Snorkelers’ behavior affects coral reefs (Marine Park, NE Brazil) - Torres-Oliveira et al (2026)
- ☑️Coral reef exceeds thermal limits during the fourth global coral bleaching event (Caribbean) - Carolan et al (2026)
- ☑️Reef fish assemblages on Acropora patches in the Colombian Caribbean: resistance to reef degradation - García-Urueña et al (2026)
- ☑️Early life-stage culture of habitat-forming temperate octocorals: Advancing conservation and restoration - Egger et al (2026) preprint
- ☑️Low Symbiodiniaceae diversity across Acropora hosts on the Central Pacific atoll Kiritimati - de Breuyn et al (2026) preprint
- ☑️In situ enhancement of coral larval settlement using acoustic enrichment, engineered habitats and living materials - Thode et al (2026)
- ☑️Deep learning–assisted coral morphology cover across 742 sites on the Great Barrier Reef (2022–2025) - Lawson et al (2026)
- ☑️Loggerhead turtles: Potential exposure to pelagic longliners (W. Indian Ocean) - Monsinjon et al (2026)
- ☑️Bleached Adult Corals: Isograft Fusion Accelerates Recovery and May Facilitate Heat-Evolved Symbiont Transmission - Johnston et al (2026) - articles (14 Oct): [1] Science.org - and - [2] Nature.com
- ☑️Reflections on the prospects for western Atlantic coral reefs - Jeremy Jackson (2026)
- ☑️How design can help a coral reef: The importance of design in coral restoration - Michaela Smeds (2026) thesis