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 ...

If you're hoping that reef-restoring coral larvae will settle down in damaged reefs, you can't just sit around and wait for it to happen. You have to get out there and entice the larvae ...

In coral reefs throughout the world, visually striking bands of bare sand surrounding reefs are often visible in satellite imagery but their cause remains a mystery. One theory is fear.

Coral reefs — which are essential for maintaining marine life and biodiversity, as well as helping protect coastal communities from storms — are losing their colors and transforming in the ...

In a series of papers, AIMS researchers and partners have found that coral reef soundscapes vary significantly across reef habitats and can reflect subtle differences in biological communities.

But tourism can replace fishing in the economy, helping preserve coral reefs. I am crossing a desert, but not one made of sand. I am swimming through a wasteland of rubble, the pulverized remains ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The latest “report card” on Mesoamerica’s coral reefs made clear that 2024’s hottest-ever recorded summer temperatures devastated some ...

Almost three-quarters of the world's coral reefs are thought to be deteriorating as a consequence of environmental stress. Until now, it has been possible to evaluate reef health only by field ...

The Guam Department of Agriculture received $1,999,600 in federal grant to increase ongoing coral reef restoration. In a release, the department said the nearly $2 million funding significantly ...

It’s called drift snorkeling, and the water’s guiding them over Ningaloo, one of the world’s longest near-shore reefs, revealing coral that’s as white as the sand on the sea floor ...

Endangered coral reefs could be saved by a special ink, according to new research. The bio-ink, called SNAP-X, was engineered by American scientists to help promote coral larvae settlement and ...