+Oceans | April 3, 2012
M.M. Sweet

Ocean History Lessons: How Corals Can Protect Themselves From Warming

By Tara Thean

History is a valuable teacher—to natural systems as well as humans, apparently. In a study that could critically shape marine conservation efforts for years to come, scientists have found that sea life can learn from the past just as human beings do. Researchers discovered that corals with heat stress on their health records—meaning periods of [...]

+Oceans | January 28, 2011

Why Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Is in Trouble

By Krista Mahr

A few weeks ago when the floods first hit eastern Australia, I wrote about their potential impact on the Great Barrier Reef as fresh water plumes send sediment and nutrients into the waters offshore. Here’s my longer take in this week’s international editions of the magazine on why the world’s largest protected coral system is [...]

+Oceans | August 31, 2010

Oceans: Saving Our Coral Reefs

By Bryan Walsh

Over on the Time.com mainpage, I have a piece on the worrying bleaching events ocurring to coral reefs around the world, thanks largely to warming ocean temperatures. Though the sudden bleachings we’re seeing in places like Indonesia immediately have to do with unusually warm water temperatures caused in part by this year’s El Nino, climate [...]