It's so massive it can be seen from space. This discovery isn't your typical coral reef with vibrant colors. It's a Pavona ...
They live in shallow water, in symbiosis with algae that are their primary food source and give them their color.
If coral reefs were to disappear overnight, life would slowly lose its ecological balance and eventually die out.
Australian scientists said Wednesday that they had found a widespread decrease in coral cover in southern parts of the Great ...
If you're swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. ...
What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the ...
in contrast to the vibrant rainbow colors of thriving coral. Bleached coral reefs usually appear as an endless stretch of white coral and eventually turn to dead brown coral. But in New Caledonia ...
That’s the saltwater side of the Shedd Aquarium’s new “Wonder of Water” centerpiece beneath its rotunda — part of $250 ...
A new study examines the correlation between fish yield and live coral habitats. Researchers analyzed the yields of nine fisheries dependent on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 2016 to 2020.
The corals, full of color just days before ... the director of NOAA’s coral reef conservation program. Coral groups outplant coral to help rebuild reef coverage by taking small bits of coral ...
The culprit? Mass coral bleaching. As the name suggests, coral bleaching strips reefs of their color, leaving them completely white. It happens when unnaturally warm ocean water causes coral to ...
scientists say Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source and give them their color. If the bleaching is severe and long-lasting ...