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 ...

This is a challenging time for coral reefs. Although they cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support 25% of all marine creatures. Collectively, they form one of the planet’s most ...

Coral reefs, vital for a billion people globally, face massive loss and potential collapse within decades due to rising ocean temperatures and acidification, even if emissions reduction targets ...

Researchers have found a way of rescuing damaged coral reefs — by transplanting organisms from a healthy neighbor. The team, based at Bar-Ilan University, central Israel, say a Coral Reef Ecosystem ...

The latest instalment of the Mesoamerican Reef Report Card, a periodic health assessment, finds that in 2024, the worst coral bleaching event on record reduced the reef’s coral cover.

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

A healthy Acropora coral reef in Palau, western Pacific Ocean. Credit: Liam Lachs Without swift and substantial cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions, coral adaptation to rising ocean temperatures ...

The Culebra Reef Garden project, led by Peninsula Papagayo, is celebrating its fifth anniversary of coral restoration efforts in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Since its launch in 2019, the initiative has ...

Like humans, coral reefs rely on nutrients in the environment surrounding them. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been lab testing nutrient-infused tiles to determine ...

SINGAPORE – In the face of rapidly changing marine environments, one coral reef scientist is experimenting with novel ways of coral propagation that could make these habitats more resilient.

Some northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered their biggest annual decline in coral cover in the 39 years of a long-running marine monitoring program. The preliminary report from the ...