Eua island in Tonga looks idyllic, but those living there are suffering the day-to-day realities of climate change. With high unemployment and the island's coral reefs eroded in part due to increased ocean temperatures, a project teaching islanders how to build canoes could help them adapt to the changing environment.

Canoe carving to protect coral reefs

Visible from space: Human waste, sewage, wastewater dumped by China on the South China Sea

Forty divers have removed abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area in the Gulf of Thailand in a two-day operation which ended on Sunday (June 20). Removal of the nets by a group of volunteer divers and the Coastal Resources Research Center, helped by the Royal Thai Navy, revealed long lines of coral bleaching inside the protected area around Ko Losin, a small rocky islet in the southern waters of the gulf.

Thai divers remove fishing nets bleaching protected coral reefs

Coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered in Australia

The crystalline waters of Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic is normally teeming with tourists. But with international lockdown putting a halt to global travel, environmentalists are using this time to give some breathing space to recover the area's reefs and mangroves.

Biologists restore Dominican Republic's reefs

A new study has said that there would be zero to few suitable coral habitats would be left in the earth by 2100.

New Study: No coral reefs by 2100

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