A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old fossilized coral reefs has revealed how centuries of humans have dramatically ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

In terrestrial forest and coral reef environments, scientists have long understood how this sort of "state shift," as this foundational habitat change is called, can alter food web dynamics.

For example, reef sharks tend to occupy the apex predator position in the coral reef food chain. As top predators, they help regulate the populations of lower-level predators, such as smaller reef ...

Fossils from 7,000-year-old Caribbean reefs show a 75% drop in sharks and a rise in prey fish numbers and size.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

Coral bleaching is another further warning of the climate crisis, with the working class and poor across the world bearing the primary brunt of its consequences as global temperatures rise ...

Minecraft coral is one of the rare materials that can quickly become useless if you don't know how to harvest or use it properly.

Biologists have long sought to understand the factors that enable coral reefs to thrive. A careful analysis of nutrient cycling now points to an unexpected food source that helps to sustain corals ...

Hydrogel helps coral find new home Metabolite-releasing gel could help build and restore reefs by mimicking coral chemical communication by Max Barnhart ...