Press Releases
Please find our most recent press releases here.
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2021
A Groundbreaking Survey of the World’s Reefs Reveals the Extent of the Coral Reef Crisis
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has published a complete summary of their findings from the Global Reef Expedition—the largest coral reef survey and mapping research mission in history. The Global Reef Expedition Final Report provides valuable baseline data on the status of the world’s reefs at a critical point in time and offers key insights into how to save coral reefs in a rapidly changing world.
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2021
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition in history: The Global Reef Expedition. This scientific research mission circumnavigated the globe over the course of ten years in an effort to address the coral reef crisis.
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2021
A New Model of Coral Reef Health
Scientists have developed a new way to model and map the health of coral reef ecosystems using data collected on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation’s Global Reef Expedition. This innovative method, presented today at the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), can determine which natural and anthropogenic factors are most likely to lead to persistently vibrant coral and fish communities. Their findings can help scientists identify the reefs most likely to survive in a changing world.
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2021
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) is partnering with NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley to use the Foundation’s extensive high-resolution data about reefs to expand NASA’s coral mapping capabilities. This partnership will allow NASA to create maps of all the coral reefs in the world and track how reefs are changing through time, giving scientists around the world the insight needed to address the coral reef crisis.
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2021
Winners of the 2021 Science Without Borders® Challenge
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is thrilled to announce the winners of our annual student art competition, the Science Without Borders® Challenge. Every year, this international contest engages students in ocean conservation through art, encouraging them to create pieces that inspire people to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources.
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2021
What’s happening to the most remote coral reefs on Earth?
A new report on the status of coral reefs in the Chagos Archipelago found the reefs to be incredibly diverse with high coral cover and the highest fish density recorded on the entire Global Reef Expedition. However, toward the end of the research mission, the reefs started to bleach, showing that there are human impacts even in the most remote and well-protected reefs on Earth.
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2021
Shrinking shark numbers on the Great Barrier Reef unlikely to have cascading impacts
A new paper published in the journal Ecology, based off research conducted on the Great Barrier Reef during the Global Reef Expedition, suggests that the effects of shark losses are unlikely to reverberate throughout the marine food web.
