A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of ...

I’d been home for six months when the email arrived: “With the help of photosynthetic algae and guard crabs, sufficient ...

The 'Reef Adapt' ... Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and ...

Corals are residents of the ocean floor at a wide range of depths and locations. Similar to the way in which the armored and ...

It’s also true that coral reefs are disappearing fast ... one of which being an unlikely and diminutive crab. The guard of corals is a type of crab that makes its home in coral, and when ...

The United Nations has issued an urgent call for increased funding to protect coral reefs, which are facing extinction due to the most extensive mass bleaching event recorded. Their data shows 77 ...

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week.

Coral reefs deserve evidence-based management not ... switch from their planktonic phase to the sessile one; sea urchins, crabs and other grazers keep levels of macroalgae down.

Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...

77% of world's reef areas affected by bleaching-level heat stress Scientists to assess severity of event in coming months and years Emergency session on coral reefs to be held at COP16 summit in ...

Coral reefs are vital ecosystems that support over 25% of marine life and nearly a billion people, many relying on reefs for food security, coastal protection and livelihoods, the U.N. development ...

The noises of a healthy coral reef – produced by fish, crabs and other creatures – attract coral larvae, encouraging them to settle and repopulate the area. In the U.S. Virgin Islands ...