Scientists in Sydney are restoring seagrass meadows—and helping save the endangered White’s seahorse with custom-built ...

Coral reefs are vital ecosystems that sustain millions of people, yet they face a growing crisis. Rising ocean temperatures are causing coral bleaching, a process where heat disrupts the relationship ...

They’ve been crawling across the seafloor for more than 500 million years – predating the dinosaurs – yet sea stars remain some of the most misunderstood animals on Earth – if they’re even recognized ...

the Florida Aquarium and Tela Coral in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami’s coastline that was devastated by coral bleaching two years ago. They ...

Climate change is severely impacting coral reefs globally, including Florida's reef, which is vital to the state's economy and provides significant flood protection. Florida's coral reef has ...

This is what allows the distribution of corals to shift over time, and the fossil record shows coral reef expansions have happened before, Vogt-Vincent notes.

Florida coral reef: Will fishing council let rock shrimp nets drag the rare Oculina Bank? The Oculina Bank coral reef, found nowhere else in the world, is thousands of years old and habitat for ...

Science The Race to Engineer Coral Reef Solutions in the U.S. Virgin Islands As world leaders gather to address a global marine crisis at the UN Ocean Conference, scientists from the Woods Hole ...

Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study finds that coral reef researchers come mainly from institutions in high-income countries, and that the contributions of researchers ...

For coral to reproduce, adults spawn gametes that form planktonic larvae that drift in the currents and settle on a suitable substrate if environmental conditions are favorable. One of the major ...