Sunscreen Chemicals Are Destroying Coral Reefs And Now Hawaii Is Banning Them
Oxybenzone and octinoxate, chemicals found in many common sunscreen products, are known to kill coral and marine life.
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The Army of Autonomous Robots Restoring Nature | Tom Chi | TED
Impact investor Tom Chi challenges a dangerous assumption: that economic growth and ecological health are opposing forces. He reveals how advances ...
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Kind Designs raises $5M to scale its 3D-printed Living Seawalls - Refresh Miami
In a quiet corner of Miami, robots have been humming away, printing pieces of what could be the future of coastal infrastructure. And what they’re ...
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Your Sunscreen Could Be Killing The Ocean's Coral Reefs
A study released Tuesday found that the chemical oxybenzone, which is commonly used in sunscreens, is toxic to coral reefs around the world.
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Coral Reefs Are Bleaching Too Frequently to Recover - The Atlantic
Reefs rarely overheated and died in 1980. Now, they are bleaching too fast to recover.
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Oceans: Why is so much of the world's coral dying? - The Economist explains
ROUGHLY a fifth of all coral in the world has died in the past three years. Some experts believe that there is now just half the amount of coral th...
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Mystery disease spreads, threatens coral reefs in the Lower Florida Keys | Miami Herald
The disease that appeared in 2014 was found for the first time this week in the Lower Keys, jumping a gap in the reef tract at the Seven Mile Bridg...
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Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead - National Geographic
See where coral in the world's largest coral reef system has been bleached to death.
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Ocean: A 360-degree tour of the mysterious, magical corals of Palau | The Economist
Palau's vibrant corals are thriving, despite some of the warmest and most acidic waters in the world. In this virtual reality experience, Lukas Isa...
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Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-...) | Outside Online
Climate change and ocean acidification have killed off one of the most spectacular features on the planet. The Great Barrier Reef of Australia pas...
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A new art-ificial coral reef will be installed just off Miami Beach. Emphasis on art - Miami Herald
That’s the concept behind The ReefLine, described by its patrons as “a seven-mile underwater public sculpture park, snorkel trail and artificial re...
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