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World’s Longest Underwater Timelapse Captures Cycles Of Coral Bleaching And Recovery Over 1,000 DaysAn aerial view of a the port of Miami with shipping boats and large buildings in the background.

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World’s Longest Underwater Timelapse Captures Cycles Of Coral Bleaching And Recovery Over 1,000 DaysAn aerial view of a the port of Miami with shipping boats and large buildings in the background.
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World’s Longest Underwater Timelapse Captures Cycles Of Coral Bleaching And Recovery Over 1,000 Days

clock-iconMarch 20, 2026

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Largest Porites Coral In The World Discovered In The Mariana Islands Could Be Over 2,000 Years OldA diver swims in front of a giant coral colony with a stream of bubbles. Their arms and legs are spread apart to indicate how big the coral is behind them.

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Largest Porites Coral In The World Discovered In The Mariana Islands Could Be Over 2,000 Years OldA diver swims in front of a giant coral colony with a stream of bubbles. Their arms and legs are spread apart to indicate how big the coral is behind them.
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Largest Porites Coral In The World Discovered In The Mariana Islands Could Be Over 2,000 Years Old

clock-iconMarch 18, 2026

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A Football Pitch-Sized Coral Colony Is The Great Barrier Reef – And Probably The World’s – LargestTwo scuba divers swimming over a giant Pavona coral colony, the longest and quite likely the largest in the world.

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A Football Pitch-Sized Coral Colony Is The Great Barrier Reef – And Probably The World’s – LargestTwo scuba divers swimming over a giant Pavona coral colony, the longest and quite likely the largest in the world.
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A Football Pitch-Sized Coral Colony Is The Great Barrier Reef – And Probably The World’s – Largest

clock-iconMarch 2, 2026

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Watch A Giant Phantom Jellyfish Dancing, Thanks To Deep-Sea Explorers Who Found Over 25 New SpeciesAdorable glass squid with a red body and huge eyes looks at the camera.

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Watch A Giant Phantom Jellyfish Dancing, Thanks To Deep-Sea Explorers Who Found Over 25 New SpeciesAdorable glass squid with a red body and huge eyes looks at the camera.
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Watch A Giant Phantom Jellyfish Dancing, Thanks To Deep-Sea Explorers Who Found Over 25 New Species

clock-iconFebruary 4, 2026
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Two Major Coral Species Now Functionally Extinct In Florida Keys, After Record-Breaking Marine HeatwaveCoral bleaching on Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef

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Two Major Coral Species Now Functionally Extinct In Florida Keys, After Record-Breaking Marine HeatwaveCoral bleaching on Acropora corals from Florida’s Coral Reef
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Two Major Coral Species Now Functionally Extinct In Florida Keys, After Record-Breaking Marine Heatwave

clock-iconOctober 24, 2025
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Earth Breaches Its First Climate Tipping Point: We're Moving Into A World Without Coral ReefsA tropical coral reef with colorful fish and blue see

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Earth Breaches Its First Climate Tipping Point: We're Moving Into A World Without Coral ReefsA tropical coral reef with colorful fish and blue see
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Earth Breaches Its First Climate Tipping Point: We're Moving Into A World Without Coral Reefs

clock-iconOctober 14, 2025
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Meet The Chewbacca Coral, A Ridiculously Fluffy New Species Discovered In The Deep Seahairy chewbacca coral on the seabed

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Meet The Chewbacca Coral, A Ridiculously Fluffy New Species Discovered In The Deep Seahairy chewbacca coral on the seabed
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Meet The Chewbacca Coral, A Ridiculously Fluffy New Species Discovered In The Deep Sea

clock-iconSeptember 19, 2025

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There’s A Coral Reef In Australia That’s 500 Meters Tall – That’s Bigger Than The Empire State Buildingmapping showing pointy reef

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There’s A Coral Reef In Australia That’s 500 Meters Tall – That’s Bigger Than The Empire State Buildingmapping showing pointy reef
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There’s A Coral Reef In Australia That’s 500 Meters Tall – That’s Bigger Than The Empire State Building

clock-iconAugust 21, 2025

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Shockingly High Microplastic Levels Found On Remote Mediterranean Coral Reef IslandCladocora caespitosa corals in the Columbretes Islands — the only reef-forming coral species in the Mediterranean, supporting a rich diversity of marine life.

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Shockingly High Microplastic Levels Found On Remote Mediterranean Coral Reef IslandCladocora caespitosa corals in the Columbretes Islands — the only reef-forming coral species in the Mediterranean, supporting a rich diversity of marine life.
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Shockingly High Microplastic Levels Found On Remote Mediterranean Coral Reef Island

clock-iconJuly 4, 2025
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New Videos Show Massive Bleaching On One Of World's Most Pristine Coral ReefsCoral reefs should be full of color, but today Ningaloo Reef looks like it was photographed in black and white.

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New Videos Show Massive Bleaching On One Of World's Most Pristine Coral ReefsCoral reefs should be full of color, but today Ningaloo Reef looks like it was photographed in black and white.
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New Videos Show Massive Bleaching On One Of World's Most Pristine Coral Reefs

clock-iconFebruary 18, 2025
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Divers Thought They'd Found A Shipwreck, But This Giant Shadow Is Alivea tiny boat over the shadow of a massive coral

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Divers Thought They'd Found A Shipwreck, But This Giant Shadow Is Alivea tiny boat over the shadow of a massive coral
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Divers Thought They'd Found A Shipwreck, But This Giant Shadow Is Alive

clock-iconNovember 14, 2024
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Two New Deep Ocean Coral-Dwelling Bacteria Species With Incredibly Tiny Genomes Discovereddeep-sea coral Callogorgia delta and pink-coloured brittle stars in the Gulf of Mexico

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Two New Deep Ocean Coral-Dwelling Bacteria Species With Incredibly Tiny Genomes Discovereddeep-sea coral Callogorgia delta and pink-coloured brittle stars in the Gulf of Mexico
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Two New Deep Ocean Coral-Dwelling Bacteria Species With Incredibly Tiny Genomes Discovered

clock-iconNovember 11, 2024
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Over 97 Percent Of Bleached Coral Died At Lizard Island Reef After This Year's EventA coral scene in the Great Barrier REef, AUstralia.

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Over 97 Percent Of Bleached Coral Died At Lizard Island Reef After This Year's EventA coral scene in the Great Barrier REef, AUstralia.
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Over 97 Percent Of Bleached Coral Died At Lizard Island Reef After This Year's Event

clock-iconJune 27, 2024
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Unique Coral Found In Deep Arctic Ocean Is "Almost Certainly A New Species"A potentially new species of deep sea coral discovered in the Arctic Ocean.

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Unique Coral Found In Deep Arctic Ocean Is "Almost Certainly A New Species"A potentially new species of deep sea coral discovered in the Arctic Ocean.
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Unique Coral Found In Deep Arctic Ocean Is "Almost Certainly A New Species"

clock-iconMay 23, 2024
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World’s 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event Confirmed – And It Could Be The Worst YetBleached coral in the Gulf of Thailand

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World’s 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event Confirmed – And It Could Be The Worst YetBleached coral in the Gulf of Thailand
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World’s 4th Global Coral Bleaching Event Confirmed – And It Could Be The Worst Yet

clock-iconApril 16, 2024
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