Giant triton (snail) -> Crown-of-thorns starfish -> Hard coral One of the ... they are easily visible from above the water's surface and often fall prey to hunting reef herons.

Australian scientists said Wednesday that they had found a widespread decrease in coral cover in southern parts of the Great ...

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia's Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.

By mid-August, the reefs in Eilat displayed widespread bleaching—a phenomenon where symbiosis between coral and algae fails, ...

Experts are bracing for the impact of another hot summer on the Great Barrier Reef after it suffered its worst coral ...

Stressed coral will probably die if it experiences temperatures 1C above its thermal ... deeper water - at between 30-50m depth - in the Great Barrier Reef can survive for longer than shallow ...

One of the most remote areas of Japan, Okinawa boasts a colourful culture alongside coral reefs, national parks and ...

A Mini-ROV collected water samples from each site. Seawater samples were collected approximately 0.5–1 m above the reef bottom and carefully preserved to protect any coral eDNA present.

Australian Institute of Marine Science underwater surveys shows unprecedented coral death on southern reef - a month after ...

As of November, there were similar levels of coral mortality at Pickle’s Reef, an in-water restoration site off the coast of Key Largo. A dive under the water’s surface revealed scars from the ...

TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture--A species of coral previously ... at even lower water temperatures than previously considered. However, he said, “The distribution map of reef-building coral ...