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For people who are not experts, what are the signs of a collapsing reef system? Firstly, less color, because there’s less ...
The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists ...
NOAA recently reported that the largest coral bleaching event on record is impacting 84% of the world’s reefs, including the ...
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared Monday, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change.
"Coral reefs cover just 0.1% of Earth's surface but they support around 25% of all marine life. ... we need to get away from two-partner thinking and view them as an integrated whole," said Victoria.
Coral Reefs Are Getting Sick, and This Human Medicine Might Help Antibiotics, it turns out, are a useful tool for keeping Caribbean ecosystems alive.
These coral reefs suffered major damage. Watch how restoration efforts helped bring them back Coral reefs offer crucial habitat for marine creatures and protection for coastal communities, but ...
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 ...
Ecuador’s environment ministry said the newly discovered coral reef was found 400–600 meters (1,310-1,970 feet) below the surface of the water on top of a previously unmapped seamount in the ...
Reef herons (Egretta sacra), unlike true seabirds, live onshore year-round. While seabirds hunt far out beyond the reef, reef herons fish along the cay and reef flat.