University of Queensland modelling says reef will suffer ‘rapid coral decline’ in coming decades but could still recover if targets met * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The Great Barrier Reef will undergo “rapid coral decline” until 2050 but could recover if global heating is kept below 2C, according to the most detailed modelling so far of the future of the world’s biggest coral reef. The finding contradicts a widely held view that the decline of the oceanic gem would become irreversible as global temperatures rise above 1.5C, with one report last month suggesting the world’s tropical corals had already reached a tipping point of long-term decline. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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In 2020, haunting images of corroded metal barrels in the deep ocean off Los Angeles leapt into the public consciousness. Initially linked to the toxic pesticide DDT, some barrels were encircled by gh...

Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

Coral Health & Disease Research Internships The Coral Health & Disease Research Program conducts works on two of Mote’s campuses. The internship below is based at Mote’s primary campus in …

Sea star wasting (SSW) has been described globally in over 25 species of asteroids. This condition is characterized by body wall lesions, loss of turgor and ray autotomy, which often results in the mo...

One of my favorite southern trees is persimmon, Diospyros virginiana. Pawpaw seems to get all the attention these days, but persimmon is an amazing tree with tasty fruit. There are large Asian persimm...