November carries a strange weight in Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The autumn light slants differently here, catching on turquoise shallows where 450 distinct coral species pulse...
Numbers convey scarcity in ways maps cannot. In the 1970s, Egypt had about 1,400 cubic meters of renewable water per person each year. By the 1980s...
The smallest tortoise in the Northern Hemisphere exists now in whispers. Somewhere along the Mediterranean coast, in two locations kept deliberately secret from collectors and smugglers,...
Stand on the Red Sea coast at Safaga or Hamata and you’ll see them: stunted forests barely reaching four meters with weathered stems rising from mud...
When a hurricane tears through coastal communities, we see entire neighborhoods transformed in hours. The human toll demands our full attention, as it should. But beneath...
In the heart of the Mexican Caribbean, a team of passionate researchers and conservationists is working to protect two of the ocean’s most majestic and threatened...
Abu Dhabi lost three quarters of its coral and decided to grow it back. Its fishery climbed from collapse to 97 percent sustainability in six years....
New research from NOAA’s Flower Garden Banks shows that lionfish consume up to 15 fish at once while genetic studies confirm just 10 founding females spawned...
Abu Dhabi’s Coral Gardens project embodies both the promise and limitations of technological approaches to climate adaptation in marine ecosystems. The initiative’s unprecedented scale, innovative technology...
Last week, I came across a statistic that made me do a double-take (again, so many numbers to be surprised about these days): Abu Dhabi’s Sustainable...