The University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP MSI) is set to establish the country’s first coral larvae cryobank aimed at fortifying coral reef restoration efforts. With the ongoing ...

THE University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI) is set to launch the country’s first coral restoration ...

Coral reefs around the world are facing devastation due to warming oceans and disease, threatening the protection they ...

In 2018, he and entrepreneur Thibault Salaun, with the help of the local community, launched Oceans for All, a nonprofit that would help protect the coral reefs by rewilding sharks.

KO LOSIN, Thailand, June 21 (Reuters) - Forty divers have removed abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area in the Gulf of Thailand in a two-day operation ending on Sunday.

The project came after as much as 90% of Thailand's coral reefs were affected by a mass bleaching event that started in 2010, most likely triggered by rising water temperatures.

At its worst in over six years, coral bleach has spread widely between 40% to 80% of the reefs along both the east coast (Gulf of Thailand) and the west coast (Andaman Sea), according to Nattapol ...

An initial coral reef assessment conducted by local dive operators near Phuket, and within the Surin and Similar archipelago, showed that out 70 sites, 13 were found to have suffered heavy damage.

The Trat archipelago is home to over 66 islands, with over 28.4 square kilometres (2,841 hectares) of coral reef, where Lalita has found that up to 30% of coral life was bleaching and 5% had ...

Without the algae, the reef turns white, and if temperatures don't come down, the coral will die. That poses a potentially existential threat to an industry dependent on a vibrant marine world.

Thailand closes 3 more islands to protect coral reefs The announcement came just under two weeks after tourists were banned from another island.