Global Coral Reef Alliance
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...
Caribbean Coral Reefs: Nature’s nearly extinct treasure at its prime
Caribbean coral reefs, nature's most endangered masterpiece, are shown at their prime in The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat, by William K. Sacco, 2023, CRC Press. These remarkable photos, taken in Jamaica, Panama, and Curaçao in the early...
The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat
The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat By William K. Sacco This spectacular book shows Caribbean coral reefs at their prime "This book is a priceless historical record of Caribbean coral reefs by a photographer who set out to document all the...
Maldives can build it’s own future with Biorock Technology
February 6, 2023 MALDIVES CAN BUILD ITS OWN FUTURE WITH BIOROCK® TECHNOLOGY Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance & Chief Scientist, Blue Regeneration SL Biorock technology is a crucial life-enhancing, island-building technology that...
Maldives coral reefs damaged by dredging
Dredging to create artificial islands just centimeters above sea level is damaging the Maldivian coral reefs that built and protected the islands. Concerned Maldivians point out how the country's future is being sacrificed to short term profit in Open letter to the...
Remineralize The Earth: Rock dust and biochar to reverse climate change
The role of rock dust and biochar to remineralize soils, increase agricultural and forest productivity, regenerate degraded landscapes, and store carbon in vegetation and soils are described by Tom Goreau, Joanna Campe, and Tom Vanacore Remineralize The Earth: Rock...
Velaa Private Island installs new state-of-the art Biorock® projects to regenerate coral reefs
Press Release - Velaa Coral Programme Biorock Velaa Private Island installs new state-of-the art Biorock® projects to regenerate coral reefs December 2022, Maldives Dr. Thomas J. Goreau and Thomas Sarkisian recently visited Velaa Private Island to spearhead the...
UNFCC COP 27 SACRIFICES CORAL REEFS AND SIDS YET AGAIN
UNFCC COP 27 has sacrificed coral reef ecosystems and Small Island Developing States again by failing to protect them from climate change. Before UNFCC was signed in Rio de Janeiro 30 years ago (1992) I briefed delegates of the Association of Small Island Developing...
Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to solve the sea level rise problem forcing Guna people to abandon their islands (in Spanish only)
Uggupseni project 2022 BIOROCK UGGUPSENI Una tecnología específicamente inventada y Desarrollada para resolver problemas ambientales de Guna Yala Una presentacion a el Congreso General Guna, Octubre 14 2022 Biorock: A technology specifically invented and developed to...
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation
Electric Reefs Enhance Coral Climate Change Adaptation, a chapter by Tom Goreau in the book: Corals - Habitat Formers From the Shallow to the Deep (Giovanni Chimienti, Editor), explains how the Biorock process greatly increases resilience of corals and marine...
Pristine Barbuda imperilled by unsustainable development
Will Luxury Resorts Threaten Caribbean Coasts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bd8wM0ECwc Barbuda is the last essentially pristine island left in the Caribbean other than uninhabited rocks. Barbuda is too dry for agriculture, so the people are master fishers...
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change
Biorock: a revolutionary technology providing the most cost-effective solutions for regenerating coastal ecosystem services for building a sustainable Blue Economy and reversing global climate change. Biorock® Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating...
Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture
Blue Regeneration’s Virtual Side Event at the United Nations Oceans Conference, Lisbon, 15:00 June 30 2022 Biorock Technology for Climate Proofing Beaches, Regenerating Marine Ecosystems, and Sustainable Mariculture Jun 30, 2022 03:00 PM Lisbon Click here to join the...
Strengthening Puerto Rico’s living coasts of coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves against climate change
Strengthening Puerto Rico's living coral reef, seagrass, and mangrove coasts against climate change. A webinar by Dr. Tom Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance about long term changes in Puerto Rico coral reefs and the options for reviving them, organized by...
Coral Reef Electrotherapy: Field Observations
This paper presents the first comprehensive review of all visible biological effects of the Biorock electrolysis method of marine ecosystem regeneration that have been seen since the invention of the method in 1976. Extraordinary benefits are seen for the health of...
Hawis Madduppa: In Memoriam
May 15, 2022 In Memoriam Hawis Madduppa March 26 1979 - May 10th 2022 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Biorock Indonesia and the Global Coral Reef Alliance announce with the greatest sadness the loss of Dr. Hawis Madduppa, leader of...
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable
Biorock regenerative living shorelines to clean coastal waters featured at UN Sustainable Floating City Roundtable April 26, 2022, United Nations, New York City Biorock living shorelines, regenerative natural biological ecosystems to filter and clean harbor and...
Support Biorock Indonesia Earth Day Coral Reef Regeneration
Indonesia has the world's largest and most biodiverse coral reefs, but most have been severely damaged. Biorock Indonesia is regenerating coral reefs and fisheries with hundreds of Biorock projects across Indonesia, training communities to regenerate their marine...
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing Carbon cost and price with lifetime to reverse climate change
CARBON LIVES MATTER! Harmonizing carbon cost and price with lifetimes explains why global carbon trading schemes are severely distorted...
MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications
Maldives Biorock Figures compressed January 31, 2022 GCRA White Paper MALDIVES BIOROCK: Past results & future applications Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance SUMMARY The Maldivian way of life for more than four thousand years is under...
Save Jamaica’s World Heritage Climate Change Site
SAVE JAMAICA’S WORLD HERITAGE CLIMATE CHANGE SITE Letter to the Jamaica Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Dear Sirs, The Bengal cliff of the Dry Harbour Mountains between Discovery Bay and Rio Bueno...
GCRA 2021 Winter Solstice Report
December 21 2021 GCRA WINTER SOLSTICE REPORT: CORALS, COVID, & CLIMATE CHANGE Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Covid supply chain delays and uncertainty slowed down, delayed, or prevented new Biorock Marine Ecosystem Regeneration...
Robert Kent Trench: In Memoriam
ROBERT KENT TRENCH: IN MEMORIAM August 3 1940 – April 28 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance Bob Trench, as a Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Global Coral Reef Alliance announces with the greatest sadness...
Biorock Indonesia announces 2021 Scholar Reef program for Youth coral regeneration training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnnfQj4YMTk Indonesia has the highest area and biodiversity of coral reefs in the world, and also has the most Biorock reef regeneration programs, thanks to Biorock Indonesia programs to train Indonesia's youth to grow back their coral...
Two new book chapters on Reversing Global Climate Change by Regenerating Ecosystem Services released before UN Climate Change Convention
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance T. J. F. Goreau, 2020, Regenerating ecosystem services to meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in Natural Resources and Their Ecosystem Services, 2020, p. 2-15 in Volume 1, Natural Resources...
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals
Biorock heals hurricane damaged Jamaican corals October 31, 2021 Thomas J. F. Goreau Thomas P. Sarkisian Sharren Robinson Global Coral Reef Alliance The record long and severe 2020 Hurricane Season spawned two category 5 hurricanes just south of Jamaica, Hurricanes...
