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The UN Decade of Ocean Science starts NOW and at Reef Life Foundation, we have an unbelievable amount of hope that governments and economies will ramp up their investment in and protection of the ocean. Ocean stakeholders worldwide have gathered to say “no more”, fearing the outstanding consequences of the continued decline in ocean health. The UN has declared 2021 through the end of 2030 the “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development”. This means that governing bod

Long story short: coral reefs are dying around the world. But what are the causes behind it and what does it mean for the ocean as a whole? Like in any natural system, there are interdependent environmental factors, and when one thing goes wrong, the whole ocean can experience a domino effect. The corals that make up the beautiful reef systems that we know and love work together with tiny algae called zooxanthellae. Zooxanthellae help feed corals through photosynthesis and it

"Coastal ecosystems must be conserved and restored as globally significant carbon sinks. Despite their small extent relative to other ecosystems, they sequester and store globally significant amounts of carbon in their soil and species, green and blue. Ongoing destruction and loss of these systems contributes to human-induced greenhouse gases. Alongside tropical forests and peatlands, coastal ecosystems demonstrate how nature can be used to enhance climate change mitigation s

Reef Life's IntelliReefs division brings advanced ocean innovations as the United Nations declared a Decade of Ocean Science "The Science We Need for the Oceans We Want" https://www.oceandecade.org/ The Oceanite Reef Mineral Substrates have performed beautifully, creating a fish feeding, coral growing, sponge breathing reefscape, on a plain sand ocean bottom, where there was no prior reef activity, increasing the bio-diversity of marine creatures exponentially, in a sh