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Melting Arctic Ice
New update from Project Save the World About "Arctic Climate Puzzles" Why didn't they tell us that the North Pole was melting? And what caused a big emission of gases and pollutants into the Arctic atmosphere if not a methane explosion (which it was not)?...
2024 record temperature effects on coral bleaching & ocean circulation
Author’s original version The Author’s Original Version (AOV) is the un-refereed author version of an article as submitted for publication in an Oxford University Press journal. This is sometimes known as the “preprint” or draft version. The author accepts full...
Marine Conservation: Coral Reefs
A high school student researches causes of coral mortality, exploring many causes and solutions proposed to manage them. Her explorations will interest anyone who wants to understand coral reefs. She finds that global warming is the "elephant in the room". KATE...
NORTH POLE MELTING ON FEBRUARY 2, 2025
ON FEBRUARY 2, 2025, THE NORTH POLE IS MELTING TEMPERATURE ANOMALY, FEBRUARY 2 2025 Figure from Climate Reanalyzer.org: https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2anom&ortho=8&wt=1 The scale at right shows the air temperature anomaly 2 meters...
BIKINI SCIENCE
New update from Project Save the World About “Bikini" Bikini Atoll was the site of U.S. nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s. Thomas Goreau's grandfather was the photographer in charge of documenting the events – "before" and "after." PROJECT SAVE THE WORLD JAN 22...
2024 WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT
December 21, 2024 2024 WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: CORAL REEF ECOCIDE Thomas J. F. Goreau DEDICATION Rosalina Atlas, 2 years old, may never see the magnificent coral reefs her family documented for nearly a century. Please help us save coral reefs for her future! ...
Maldives ecosystem regeneration workshops, December 9-15, 2024
https://noonuatoll.gov.mv/progress/173 Noonu Naturally > Progress The Global Coral Reef Alliance is pleased to hold training and demonstration workshops for small island communities in the world's largest atoll, in the world's lowest country Maldives climate change...
Extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic ice, and the urgent need for immediate action to minimize or prevent climate overshoot
Extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic ice, and the urgent need for immediate action to minimize or prevent climate overshoot. A talk about extinction of coral reefs, Amazonian rain forests, and Arctic tundra, and the urgent need for immediate...
Growing solid subsurface marine foundations with Biorock Technology
Growing solid subsurface marine foundations with Biorock Technology Biorock sea water electrolysis technology has been growing solid foundations below the sediment and reversing coastal erosion for decades (T. J. Goreau, 2012, Marine electrolysis for building...
Maldives coral reefs; Past, present, and a sustainable blue future: In honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku
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In honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku: Maldives coral reefs: past, present, and a sustainable Blue future
A public lecture in honour of Maizan Hassan Maniku: Maldives coral reefs: past, present, and a sustainable Blue future Dr Tom Goreau President, Global Coral Reef Alliance
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"...
