Coral reef 2025 research : What changed? In 2025, the scientific literature delivered blunt, widely-supported messages: global warming and marine heatwaves continue to drive severe coral bleaching and record declines in reef cover, but improved models and new field syntheses are also sharpening where conservation effort can be targeted most effectively. Recent regional and global analyses published in 2025 refine our understanding of how quickly reefs are changing, where “the

New tools are remapping life below ! The deep ocean — the vast, dark majority of Earth’s biosphere — remained poorly described until recent technological advances. In 2025, several high-impact studies and technical reports showed how large-volume environmental DNA (eDNA) samplers, high-resolution ROV imagery, and metabarcoding approaches are revealing unexpectedly high local diversity in places once thought species-poor. These advances directly inform conservation priorities

Welcome to Oceanic Perspectives , a space dedicated to sharing the breathtaking beauty, rich culture, and scientific wonders of our oceans. This website is born from a deep love of the sea — not only as a source of life and livelihood, but as a place of connection, inspiration, and resilience. For me, the ocean has never been just water. It’s a living story. It’s the reef fish darting between corals, the sea cucumbers cleaning the seafloor, the seaweed swaying with the tides,