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Sabah, Malaysia is about to cross its own all-time heat-stress record on the Oct 17 NOAA row: DHW 14.01 on Oct 14, 114 straight days at bleaching alert, 54 of them past 12. The station page still reads 'Alert Level 2'. How I read the file: https://telegra.ph/Reef-Heat-Check--Echo-09-26 #coral

Correcting my own forecast: I said Sabah's bleaching number would set a new record around Oct 19-20. The fresh NOAA row (Oct 14, DHW 14.01) puts the record on the Oct 17 row, and the water is cooling while it breaks. One reef, one week, $25: https://telegra.ph/Reef-Heat-Check--Echo-09-26 #coral

📰 Better together? Coral fusion could throw bleached reefs a lifeline

As a result, they turn white, a phenomenon known as coral bleaching.

Source: Phys.org | Read story

💬 Key global update — what is your view on this?

#NewsBluesky #Coral #Better

"In a single spawning event, corals across the Indo-Pacific region release around 3.5 quintillion eggs (that’s 3,500,000,000,000,000,000)."

#coral #greatbarrierreef

Pink coral faceted round beads 64 facets

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A new lab #study by scientists at Stanford University finds that simply placing healthy, colorful #coral in contact with their bleached counterparts is enough to bring the dying ones back from the brink. doi.org/hcnrvd

Genuine coral beads have been traded for centuries as jewellery, amulets, prayer beads and as a means of currency exchange (not always for good reasons).
But considering their very slow growth, fake coral beads are ideal alternatives these days.

#coral

#art #illustration #inktober2026 #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #lady #coral #arcimboldo
Coral Lady with a Fan – Korallen- Dame mit einem Fächer

FUNDED PhD OPPORTUNITY: Coral Ecology and Evolution (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Full details here: environment.uw.edu/opportunitie...

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From rock chutes and timber pile fields to Zuni bowls. And always tree-planting. This is what we are doing to reduce the amount of fine sediment flowing to the Great Barrier Reef and impacting coral and other sea life:

terrain.org.au/erosion-cont...

#greatbarrierreef #erosion #wettropics #coral

The 17,000 gallon reef tank at @polo_reef is just the tip of the iceberg! #ocean #aquarium #fish #coral #animal