{"id":11908,"date":"2021-01-07T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:23","slug":"the-plan-to-map-every-coral-reef-on-earth-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/01\/07\/the-plan-to-map-every-coral-reef-on-earth-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The plan to map every coral reef on Earth \u2013 from space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October 2020, Australian scientists found a detached coral reef skyscraper on Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef\u2014nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometres wide\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchmidtOcean\/status\/1320507435807694848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1320507435807694848%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fcoral-reef-1.5781424\">&nbsp;that exceeds<\/a>&nbsp;the height of the Eiffel Tower and New York\u2019s Empire State Building. This was the first discovery of its kind in 120 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also signals a challenge \u2013 that we know relatively little about what lies underwater, given the high costs and still-nascent technology of ocean exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To better understand the mysteries of the world\u2019s oceans, a team of scientists is using satellite imaging to map out, in unprecedented detail, one of the planet\u2019s most iconic underwater ecosystems: the shallow coral reef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers are part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allencoralatlas.org\/\">Allen Coral Atlas<\/a>&nbsp;project, which is led by Vulcan, a philanthropic organization created by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is working with Vulcan to build capacities of coral reef practitioners, managers and policy-makers around the world, especially in developing countries, on how to use the new Atlas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe atlas is meant to improve our understanding of our coral reef systems and drive better evidence-based policies to protect corals,\u201d says Chuck Cooper, Managing Director of Government and Community Relations at Vulcan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/plan-map-every-coral-reef-earth-space\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2020, Australian scientists found a detached coral reef skyscraper on Australia\u2019s Great Barrier Reef\u2014nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometres wide\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;that exceeds&nbsp;the height of the Eiffel Tower and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}