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Barbudans resisting destructive island developments excluded from UN Conference on Small Island Developing States (UNSIDS)
Press Release: Barbudans resisting destructive island developments ironically excluded from International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) For immediate release: 27 May 2024 As the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States...
Small Islands have legal right to to control CO2 and climate change
Today the Law Of The Sea tribunal ruled that Small Island States, inter alia, have the legal rights and obligations to prevent, reduce, and control pollution leading to climate change impacts on marine natural resources. Governments are required to prevent pollution,...
BASIC BIOROCK PUBLICATIONS
May 17, 2024 BASIC BIOROCK PUBLICATIONS Thomas J. F. Goreau, Global Coral Reef Alliance Hilbertz, W., 1979. Electrodeposition of minerals in sea water: Experiments and applications. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 4(3), pp.94-113 Hilbertz, W.H., 1992....
2023 Record marine heat waves: coral reef bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation changes
Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2024, kgae005, T.J.F. Goreau & R.L. Hayes Download here: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae005 Published: 09 May 2024 Abstract Coral reefs, the most sensitive ecosystem to high temperature, are on the precipice of...
Cleaning sewage pollution in Negril
CLEANING SEWAGE POLLUTION IN NEGRIL May 7, 2024 Thomas J. F. Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, former Science Advisor, Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society & Negril Environmental Protection Trust Negril: not enough clean water and too much dirty...
Increasing coastal ecosystem biodiversity, carbon storage, and ecosystem services with low voltage electrical fields
TIME: 9 AM EST, 2 PM GMT REGISTER HERE Thomas Goreau is a highly educated biogeochemist and President and founder of The Global Coral Reef Alliance. He has dived on coral reefs across the Caribbean, Pacific, Indian Ocean, and South-East Asia for more than 70 years....
Coral sediment dredging must stop during bleaching events
Sediment dredging is killing corals and must stop during bleaching events Caption: Coral reef sediment dredging in the Maldives, seen in this satellite image, leaves long plumes of fine sediments that smother and eventually kill corals. The plume, larger than most...
Great Barrier Reef bleaches again, as predicted, yet coral export continues
Great Barrier Reef bleaches again, as predicted, but continues exporting corals The Coral Bleaching HotSpot prediction method, developed by the Global Coral Reef Alliance in the 1980s, has projected every major bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef. We warned a...
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION
MALDIVES DREDGE DUMPING ON CORAL REEFS STOPPED BY INJUNCTION A massive Maldives project to dump dredged material on top of reefs to create artificial islands has been stopped for the first time by a Maldives Court Injunction, due to lack of scientifically sound...
Biorock increases shellfish settlement while reducing hydroid fouling in Chile
Biorock increases shellfish settlement while reducing hydroid fouling in Chile, Centro de Investigacion en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, (in Spanish). English machine translation: Aquatic EcosystemsNews INNOVATIVE MARINE REGENERATION TECHNOLOGY WAS TESTED IN THE...
CRISIS BELOW THE WAVES: THE BATTLE FOR CORAL REEF TRANSPARENCY AND SURVIVAL
Jamaican Daily Gleaner January 30 2024 Crisis below the waves: The battle for coral reef transparency and survival DR THOMAS Goreau, a pioneer in marine science, is sounding a clarion call for greater transparency regarding the alarming extent of coral reef damage...
2023 record marine heat waves: Coral Bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation changes
January 22, 2024 2023 record marine heat waves: Coral Bleaching HotSpot maps reveal global sea surface temperature extremes, coral mortality, and ocean circulation change Thomas J. F. Goreau & Raymond L. Hayes The manuscript is a non-peer reviewed preprint...
Red flags ignored: Marine biologist says authorities turned blind eye to faults in building problematic sewage plant
January 1 2024 Global Coral Reef Alliance 2024 New Years Resolution: Save coral reefs: stop polluting the ocean and atmosphere RED FLAGS IGNORED Marine biologist says authorities turned blind eye to faults in building problematic sewage plant Published: Sunday...
2023 GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: REEF REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS FOR MASS EXTINCTION OF CORAL REEFS FROM GLOBAL WARMING
December 21, 2023 2023 GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: REEF REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS FOR MASS EXTINCTION OF CORAL REEFS FROM GLOBAL WARMING Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance COP 28 sacrifices coral reefs,...
HOW MUCH FASTER CAN BIOROCK INCREASE CORAL GROWTH?
GCRA WHITE PAPER HOW MUCH FASTER CAN BIOROCK INCREASE CORAL GROWTH? Thomas J. F. Goreau December 10 2023 Record fast coral growth enhancement under Biorock electrical stimulation of up to 4.126 times faster in diameter, 20.7488 times faster in length, and 353.225...
BIOROCK CORALS GROW MORE THAN 20 TIMES FASTER
Measurements of the length and width of Acropora coral branches in Java, Indonesia, show that Biorock corals grew 20.7488 times faster in length and 4.126 times faster in thickness than control corals (Nugroho, Zuhry, Kusnandar, Simanjuntak, Alamsyah, & Karissa,...
COP28: Coral Reef Extinction From Global Warming Requires Reparations From Fossil Fuel Producers
December 1, 2023 COP28: CORAL REEF EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING REQUIRES REPARATIONS FROM FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance 2023 is the hottest year in history, and Jamaica was the worst affected, with the highest...
Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent effective Climate Action
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/6244/ Bad Science and Good Intentions Prevent effective Climate Action Graeme MacDonald Taylor, Peter Wadhams, Daniele Visioni, Tom Goreau, Leslie Field, Heri Kuswanto 13 November 2023 https://doi.org/10.31223/X5DT25 Summary...
REAL AND FAKE CORAL REEF RESTORATION (UPDATED)
BIOROCK coral reef (top), concrete artificial reef (bottom), North Bali. The photographs above, from the original posted version of a recent article "Artificial coral reefs showing early signs they can mimic real reefs killed by climate change"...
LARGEST, HOTTEST, LONGEST CARIBBEAN BLEACHING: CORALS DYING FROM EXTREME HEAT
October 13, 2023 Negril, Jamaica LARGEST, HOTTEST, LONGEST CARIBBEAN BLEACHING: CORALS DYING FROM EXTREME HEAT Reanne McKenzie Executive Director, Negril Environmental Protection Trust Jean Brown, President, Negril Coral Reef Preservation Society Thomas J. F. Goreau,...
Biorock grows back shallow reef crest in Saint Barthelemy
Three power point presentations showing the Biorock coral reef projects in Saint Barthelemy were presented to the IFRECOR (the French National Agency that funds coral reef research in the French Overseas Territories of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean)...
Deadly coral bleaching heat wave spreads across entire Caribbean
Above is the latest NOAA Coral Bleaching HotSpot Map based on the Goreau-Hayes method of satellite sea surface temperature analysis. In round numbers, corals in yellow areas will bleach in about a month, while corals in orange areas will die in around a month. The...
Protecting the world’s vanishing coral reefs
MIT NEWS, 2021 Healthy coral reef, Upolu, Samoa, June 2023 by Gideon Brosius
Reef Relief: How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs
Reef Relief How Tom Goreau’s, PhD (MS ’72) electrifying technology is helping local communities rebuild the world’s coral reefs 2023 FALL issue, The Techer, Caltech Alumni Magazine. By Marisa Demers FALL 2023 TRANSFORMING Photograph by Webb Chappell Tom Goreau,...
A Letter from 200+ World Scientists on Advancing Responsible Research and Development of Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal
Full letter at: https://www.oceancdrscience.org/ Society must advance responsible research, development, and field testing of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques to determine their potential to help restore the climate and the ocean. Current levels of...
The Coral Builder
The Coral Builder. Corals are dying all over the world. Tom Goreau wants to save them: He builds artificial reefs in the sea and electrifies them. The animals should grow faster on it - and defy the climate crisis.
Integrated Biorock Blue Economy Strategy For Sustainable Islands And Coasts
GCRA WHITE PAPER Integrated Biorock Blue Economy Strategy For Sustainable Islands And Coasts Healthy coral reef, Upolu, Samoa. Ecosystem services of healthy biodiverse coral reefs like this have nearly vanished. Photographed June 2023, by Gideon Brosius....
The Role of Biorock Artificial Coral Reefs in the Sustainable Governance of Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study of Pemuteran, Bali
Nick Jamison Thesis dissertation 2009 University of London
Saving Coral Reefs From Extinction, June 4 2023, 2PM EST
JUNE 4 2023 2PM EDT To hear recording of talk click here: https://youtu.be/hWV8PG9lKP4 Coral reefs, the most temperature sensitive ecosystem, have already largely died from global warming and will be the first to go functionally extinct from global warming...
Biorock grows back Saint Barthelemy reefs: 2023 CRES Report
Reporte de Visita Arrecifes BioRock, isla de San Bartolomé en el Caribe, 2023 (Biorock grows back Saint Barthelemy reefs: 2023 CRES Report). This report by the Coalicion Restauracion Ecosistemas Santurcinos (Puerto Rico) describes the most successful coral reef...
