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Corals: the rainforest of the sea

Corals: the rainforest of the sea

Coral reefs protect coastlines, providing self-repairing breakwaters. Healthy coral reefs can dramatically reduce incoming wave energy. Problems here have major implications. Even a one meter loss of coral reef height can double the damage done to the shoreline and triple the costs from an extreme weather event. Without reefs, the cost of damages done by 100-year storm events could almost double.

Reefs may help us in other ways, and not just through their touristic appeal. They can for example provide medicinal compounds with potential uses in treatments for cancers, Alzheimer’s and numerous other diseases like arthritis and bacterial infections.

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Sudden Marine Heat Wave threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events

Sudden Marine Heat Wave threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events

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Scientists map living corals for the first time before and after marine heat wave: Winners and losers discovered

Scientists map living corals for the first time before and after marine heat wave: Winners and losers discovered

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Kenya turns to reef nurseries To Combat Coral Bleaching

Kenya turns to reef nurseries To Combat Coral Bleaching

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CENTRAL PACIFIC CORAL REEF SHOWS REMARKABLE RECOVERY DESPITE TWO WARM-WATER EVENTS

CENTRAL PACIFIC CORAL REEF SHOWS REMARKABLE RECOVERY DESPITE TWO WARM-WATER EVENTS

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