Even with the nutrition provided by zooxanthallae, the process of building ... the hypothesis of reef formation first described by Darwin over a hundred years earlier. Coral reefs can be separated ...

Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

Coral reefs are ... If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable aragonite and precipitates calcite. This process converts the reef into ...

To collect coral material faster, we are developing a cryopreservation process for whole coral fragments, using a method called isochoric vitrification. This technique is still developing.

Laboratory experiments confirm the accuracy of numerical modeling in simulating coral bleaching, according to new research ...

John "Charlie" Veron -- widely known as "The Godfather of Coral" -- is a ... to help the Great Barrier Reef. There has been criticism in Australia about the tender process for the funding, as ...

Along the way, Darwin hatched new ideas about the formation of reefs — including the shimmering island rings of coral known as atolls ... dissolve the rocks. This process is known as ...