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We welcome news of an important tool that will help address mounting threats to the Virgin Islands’ marine environment. This month, the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change …
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Across the territory in recent weeks, reefs have been turning white. The record high temperatures this summer created conditions for what will likely be the most devastating coral bleaching event …
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As part of a United Kingdom-funded training programme, a group of Virgin Islands researchers dove underwater this month and learned how to analyse and share their data globally as they …
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Continued efforts to monitor Virgin Islands reefs for the highly infectious stony coral tissue loss disease are finding that its spread shows no sign of slowing down. A “coral strike …
An aggressive disease that can quickly kill stony corals has spread to at least 21 sites in the territory’s waters, according to a video released this month by the National …
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With the fast-spreading and highly lethal stony coral tissue loss disease recently reaching Virgin Islands reefs, government, non-profit organisations and businesses have begun meeting weekly to track the disease’s progress …
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As the territory responds to a human pandemic on land, another catastrophe is brewing underwater. The highly infectious stony coral tissue loss disease, which has been spreading south from Florida …
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In January 2019, Dr. Marilyn Brandt, a research associate professor at the University of the Virgin Islands, scuba dived among a patch of coral near the airport in St. Thomas. …
An aggressive coral disease that can destroy certain species in days has been spotted off the coast of the United States Virgin Islands after spreading down from Florida, and scientists …
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