Category: coral reef

Coral Reef Flourishing With Life Discovered Near Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands

Scientists have discovered an unknown coral reef with flourishing marine life off Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands, the country’s environment minister said. “A deepwater scientific expedition has found the first totally pristine coral reef, approximately two kilometres long, at 400 metres [deep], on the summit of a submarine mountain,” Environment Minister Jose Davalos announced in a Twitter…


US Expert: Images Show Chinese Ship Waste Endangering Reefs

MANILA, Philippines—Swarms of Chinese vessels have dumped human waste and wastewater for years in a disputed area of the South China Sea, causing algae blooms that have damaged coral reefs and threatened fish in an unfolding catastrophe, a U.S.-based expert said Monday. Satellite images over the last five years show how human waste, sewage and…