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A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid. – The UN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Diving there is like visiting another planet, we are always the first ones to see those reefs, and always find new species. It is very challenging, but also very exciting ! – Luiz Rocha	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The discovery suggests that there are, in fact, many more large reefs out in our ocean at depths of more than 30 meters, which have not been mapped, it's quite a puzzling finding. – Julian Barbiere	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics. – Terry Hughes	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s within our control, potentially, to reduce the impacts that we’re seeing with fires, both in terms of forest loss as well as the impacts on coral reefs. – Clay Trauernicht	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Once a fire occurs, what you’re doing is removing vegetation, and we often get heavy rainfall events. All of that exposed soil gets carried downstream and we have these direct impacts of erosion, sedimentation on our marine ecosystems. So it really hammers our coral reefs as well. – Clay Trauernicht	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from. – Elizabeth Turner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Conservation and saving wildlife from extinction is our foremost business focus and scientific breakthroughs that have a direct impact on protecting and restoring our natural environment is why we exist, healthy coral reefs are vital to the survival and quality of life of humans and animals, especially here in Florida Reef and throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. We believe it's our responsibility to save the Florida Reef Tract from disappearing. – Roger Germann	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If one can remove nets before it comes ashore on beaches or on reefs, it's much more effective, once the nets are on the reefs, removal of the net needs to be done carefully so not to damage the reefs. – Mary Crowley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Warsaw are characterized by an elongated second dorsal spine, they're the only grouper with 10 dorsal spines ; all others have 11. Although adults usually occur in depths of 180-1700 ft, juveniles are occasionally seen around jetties and shallow-water reefs in the northern Gulf. – The FWC	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Were working with partners, with a lot of other groups, such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The National Marine Sanctuary Program, Florida Keys National Sanctuary, The Nature Conservancy, Mote Marine Lab, Florida Keys Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission lots of partners are coming together for this mission. The Mission Iconic Reefs is The Mission Iconic Reefs to reef restoration in Florida Keys. Its at a scale thats unprecedented and this project The Mission Iconic Reefs is a first of The Mission Iconic Reefs kind for us. – Elina Shirazi -RRB- Levy	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Saving reefs will require combining local and global efforts, such as reducing local dependence on reef fish to maintain a reef's important functions while also reducing carbon emissions to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. – Tim McClanahan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Without the oyster reefs, the whole shoreline is fundamentally changed, we think oyster reefs can be part of an integrated approach to resiliency and proactive planning for climate change. – Pete Malinowski	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs. – Stephen Simpson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We live on a barrier island, if the sea rises, our( home) could just be underwater. And a couple of our reefs... they're just almost gone. I can't even go to the beach. It gives me nightmares. – Levi Draheim	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is currently a lot of interest in creating more tolerant corals through genetic engineering and of restoring reefs by targeting more resilient corals, i fully support these approaches, but believe understanding what drives coral health will be key to their success. – Caroline Palmer	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand. – Craig Downs	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Essentially, what's happening is, two ingredients that are both safe and effective for use in sunscreen are being banned, essentially on the basis of a single study which claims that these ingredients harm coral reefs, this has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff. – Jay Sirois	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's a natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs might respond to climate change, these corals exist in hotter conditions than are projected for at least another century in places like Australias Great Barrier Reef and the Caribbean. – John Burt	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and support fisheries by providing foraging habitats for adult fish and nursery habitats for juveniles, so they're really important biologically and economically. – John Burt	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They look to Australia to provide the technical expertise the scientific research, and to give the best practice management of coral reefs and that's what we demonstrate. – Julie Bishop	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We live on a barrier island, if the sea rises, our (home) could just be underwater. And a couple of our reefs ... they're just almost gone. I can't even go to the beach. It gives me nightmares. – Levi Draheim	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The central section of the reef is now displaying the same extent of bleaching as in the north, going over those reefs this year, you can tell how low the coral cover was. It was shocking to see the fallout from last year's event. – Dr James Kerry	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The damage done to the reef is not only a disaster from an environmental point of view, but also due to the fact that the livelihoods of local communities depend upon healthy reefs, it's quite remarkable that the ship was so close. – Doug Meikle	Found on CNN 7 years ago

A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid.

– The UN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Diving there is like visiting another planet, we are always the first ones to see those reefs, and always find new species. It is very challenging, but also very exciting !

– Luiz Rocha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The discovery suggests that there are, in fact, many more large reefs out in our ocean at depths of more than 30 meters, which have not been mapped, it's quite a puzzling finding.

– Julian Barbiere

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

– Terry Hughes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s within our control, potentially, to reduce the impacts that we’re seeing with fires, both in terms of forest loss as well as the impacts on coral reefs.

– Clay Trauernicht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once a fire occurs, what you’re doing is removing vegetation, and we often get heavy rainfall events. All of that exposed soil gets carried downstream and we have these direct impacts of erosion, sedimentation on our marine ecosystems. So it really hammers our coral reefs as well.

– Clay Trauernicht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from.

– Elizabeth Turner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Conservation and saving wildlife from extinction is our foremost business focus and scientific breakthroughs that have a direct impact on protecting and restoring our natural environment is why we exist, healthy coral reefs are vital to the survival and quality of life of humans and animals, especially here in Florida Reef and throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. We believe it's our responsibility to save the Florida Reef Tract from disappearing.

– Roger Germann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If one can remove nets before it comes ashore on beaches or on reefs, it's much more effective, once the nets are on the reefs, removal of the net needs to be done carefully so not to damage the reefs.

– Mary Crowley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Warsaw are characterized by an elongated second dorsal spine, they're the only grouper with 10 dorsal spines ; all others have 11. Although adults usually occur in depths of 180-1700 ft, juveniles are occasionally seen around jetties and shallow-water reefs in the northern Gulf.

– The FWC

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were working with partners, with a lot of other groups, such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The National Marine Sanctuary Program, Florida Keys National Sanctuary, The Nature Conservancy, Mote Marine Lab, Florida Keys Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission lots of partners are coming together for this mission. The Mission Iconic Reefs is The Mission Iconic Reefs to reef restoration in Florida Keys. Its at a scale thats unprecedented and this project The Mission Iconic Reefs is a first of The Mission Iconic Reefs kind for us.

– Elina Shirazi -RRB- Levy

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Saving reefs will require combining local and global efforts, such as reducing local dependence on reef fish to maintain a reef's important functions while also reducing carbon emissions to keep warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

– Tim McClanahan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Without the oyster reefs, the whole shoreline is fundamentally changed, we think oyster reefs can be part of an integrated approach to resiliency and proactive planning for climate change.

– Pete Malinowski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is a severe food security risk in the tropics, no species are already activated to temperatures warmer than the tropics, so you could see a real crash in food fish populations. And these are places where coastal nations often have no other protein in the diet other than the fish from coral reefs.

– Stephen Simpson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We live on a barrier island, if the sea rises, our( home) could just be underwater. And a couple of our reefs... they're just almost gone. I can't even go to the beach. It gives me nightmares.

– Levi Draheim

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is currently a lot of interest in creating more tolerant corals through genetic engineering and of restoring reefs by targeting more resilient corals, i fully support these approaches, but believe understanding what drives coral health will be key to their success.

– Caroline Palmer

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.

– Craig Downs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Essentially, what's happening is, two ingredients that are both safe and effective for use in sunscreen are being banned, essentially on the basis of a single study which claims that these ingredients harm coral reefs, this has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff.

– Jay Sirois

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's a natural laboratory for studying how coral reefs might respond to climate change, these corals exist in hotter conditions than are projected for at least another century in places like Australias Great Barrier Reef and the Caribbean.

– John Burt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine species and support fisheries by providing foraging habitats for adult fish and nursery habitats for juveniles, so they're really important biologically and economically.

– John Burt

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They look to Australia to provide the technical expertise the scientific research, and to give the best practice management of coral reefs and that's what we demonstrate.

– Julie Bishop

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We live on a barrier island, if the sea rises, our (home) could just be underwater. And a couple of our reefs ... they're just almost gone. I can't even go to the beach. It gives me nightmares.

– Levi Draheim

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The central section of the reef is now displaying the same extent of bleaching as in the north, going over those reefs this year, you can tell how low the coral cover was. It was shocking to see the fallout from last year's event.

– Dr James Kerry

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The damage done to the reef is not only a disaster from an environmental point of view, but also due to the fact that the livelihoods of local communities depend upon healthy reefs, it's quite remarkable that the ship was so close.

– Doug Meikle

Found on CNN
7 years ago

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