Caribbean Coral Reefs Meet Archaeology

Shuchita Jha

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) discovered over 7,000 years-old coral reefs in the Caribbean. These ancient reefs revealed that fishing has altered the food web, sizes, and population of several species of fish over the millennia, and severely reduced the abundance of sharks. They also found one of the first pieces of evidence for "the predator release effect" phenomenon, wherein the size of prey-fish increases as their predators decrease.

Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

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Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

Manon Verchot

Manon is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews, the organization that runs Neighbird. She formerly headed video at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint.

Sanshey Biswas

Starting his career as a print journalist in '14 at a weekly newspaper in India, he quickly gravitated to working on the digital side. He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to learn from and with his colleagues spread across the globes.