On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated near Socorro, New Mexico-and 80 years later, we're still feeling the ...

Groundwater input to coral reefs directly affects water chemistry and triggers a cascade of changes in the coastal ecosystem, ...

When looking at a map, the Strait of Hormuz might not seem all that impressive. It’s just a slim waterway squeezed between ...

The Bahamas has launched an aggressive national conservation initiative to address and reverse the devastating effects of warming ocean temperatures and a disease ravaging its coral reefs. The ...

Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to ...

-- The Bahamas Coral Gene Bank at Atlantis Paradise Island is a cornerstone of the country's national commitment to coral conservation and marine resilience -- ...

By tracing how those microscopic allies behave when heat strikes, scientists have found new clues to coral reef survival in a hotter world.. A team from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical ...

In addition to supporting Coral Gardeners’ hands-on restoration work—growing climate-resilient coral fragments in underwater nurseries and replanting them in degraded reefs, with over 160,000 corals ...

Larval fish disperse from reefs in protected areas to unprotected reefs, providing replenishment. Rene Abesamis, one of Alcala’s colleagues at Silliman, has studied the process in Dauin’s MPAs.

The team even moved corals from reefs without nearby bird colonies to reefs near them, and those corals also grew faster. Overall, corals recovered 10 months sooner in reefs that received guano ...

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...

The scientists chose to study the cleaning goby, a tiny fish known for its services on Caribbean reefs. Despite its small size, the goby plays a key role in reef life. It has a striped body and is ...