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The northern Red Sea corals should be dead. By every bleaching model, every thermal threshold established from reefs worldwide, the summer of 2024 should have left...
The Nile has flowed through Egypt for millions of years, through a civilization that understood something modern society appears to have forgotten: ecosystems don’t respond well...
A groundbreaking expedition reveals thriving coral ecosystems built by vulnerable species, challenging our understanding of deep-ocean resilience Three hundred meters beneath the South Atlantic’s surface, where...
Series inspired by Jane Goodall: “If one wants to change attitudes, you have to reach the heart. You can reach the heart by telling stories, not...
As 84% of global reefs face unprecedented bleaching, a new wave of innovations from probiotics to underwater symphonies offer hope for one of Earth’s most threatened...
As the forum segment of the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025 concluded in Abu Dhabi, I’m confident the delegates, like myself, left with a sense of...
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...
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...