Press Releases
Please find our most recent press releases here.
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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.
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2020
Palau’s Coral Reefs: A Jewel of the Ocean
The latest report from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation finds Palau’s reefs had the highest coral cover observed on the Global Reef Expedition—the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition in history.
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2020
The State of Coral Reefs in the Solomon Islands
Scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) have published a report on the status of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands. The Global Reef Expedition: Solomon Islands Final Report summarizes the foundation’s findings from a monumental research mission to study corals and reef fish in the Solomon Islands and provides recommendations on how to preserve these precious ecosystems into the future.
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2020
Report on New Caledonia’s coral reefs offers a glimmer of hope for the future
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation released a report on their findings from the Global Reef Expedition research mission to New Caledonia. The report provides relevant baseline data on coral reefs and reef fish in New Caledonia along with conservation recommendations.
