Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they ...

A new type of built coral reef has been deployed off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. Coral reef restoration project OceanShot designed the structures and implemented them with the help of the ...

No audio available for this content. 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, ...

By Carolyn Cowan Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered ...

An introduction to the structure and formation of modern reefs -- Reef minerals and mineralization -- Reef cyanobacteria -- Reef algae and foraminiferans -- Reef sponges -- Reef corals and their ...

Aerial image of coral reef and coastline in the South Kona, Hawaiʻi region. Credit: ASU Global Airborne Observatory When imagining corals, the picture that comes to mind is usually a stationary one: a ...

Marine biologists in Venezuela are racing against the clock to stop an invasive species of soft coral that are ravaging reefs. Ana Yranzo Duque, a coral reef researcher at the Universidad Central de ...

The study underscores the crucial role of microbes in maintaining coral reef health, akin to the human gut microbiome. Hurricanes and disease outbreaks affect coral reef water microbial communities, ...

Coral reef tree used to grow coral used for new reef module. deployed off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. (Photo courtesy of Ocean Shot Project.) Researchers have deployed a new type of coral reef ...