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Fishing lines tangled to and breaking corals in Cape Verde

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Coral reefs are contaminated with plastic from fishing

Plastic was found at nearly all of the 84 coral reefs studied across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans

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Reef sharks are being wiped out by overfishing so rays are taking over

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Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu

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The uncomfortable reality of life on Earth after we breach 1.5°C

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We’ve been drastically underestimating Earth’s microbial diversity

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Probiotics shield corals from deadly tissue loss disease

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Dusky gregory farmerfish Stegastes nigricans

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Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back from bleaching events

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Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has begun to eat away at this star coral. The destructive disease is destroying reefs throughout the Caribbean; Shutterstock ID 1972413326; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

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Scientists are slathering reefs with antibiotics to stop coral disease

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Scuba diver above a coral reef

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Start-up plans 2500 artificial coral reefs to fight climate change

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2E2GFFW Travel in Taiwan

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Thousands of coral larvae ‘planted’ under offshore wind turbine

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Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures - called cilia - to generate food-carrying conveyer belts of mucus and seawater across their surface.

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Watch coral create conveyor belts of mucus to share food

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures - called cilia - to generate food-carrying conveyer belts of mucus and seawater across their surface

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Coral reefs have conveyor belts of mucus running across their surface

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Corals further from pollution were more resistant to Hawaiian heatwave

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Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña

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The way we are going about saving coral reefs is all wrong

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