Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

LONDON, April 15(Reuters) - Huge stretches of coral reef around the world are turning a ghostly white this year amid record warm ocean temperatures. On Monday, the U.S. National Oceanic and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Multiple reasons. They are home to a huge amount of biodiversity, which provides food ...

Jörg Wiedenmann receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (NE/T001364/1). Paul Wilson and Peter Franklin (University of Southampton) and Nick Graham (Lancaster University) ...

Dr. Kenkel is a marine biologist who has been studying Caribbean coral reefs since 2006. Since 2018, my lab has transplanted hundreds of coral specimens to reefs in Florida to study what makes them ...

Coral reefs are threatened by rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions that are warmer, less favorable for calcification, have impaired water quality, and pose continuing disease threats. Coral ...

Noam Vogt-Vincent receives funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny ...

Coral reefs are vital to the health of the oceans, but in recent years they’ve been decimated by climate change, pollution, and overfishing. While this has been widely covered, a new documentary sheds ...

Days after hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, Ernesto Diaz formed a team to survey what the Category 5 storms had done to his home. Touring coastal areas, Diaz, then an ...

The less people at a certain site, the more coral there are, the research found. The millions of tourists who flock to the shores of Hawaii every year are wreaking havoc on its natural environment-- ...