A low-tech solution just might save these animals around the world.
Fishers operating off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, are detonating more than 8,000 underwater explosives each year, researchers estimate. The practice is turning picturesque coral reefs to ...
On a flat parcel in Homestead, Florida, a single Latvian immigrant carved, moved and stacked roughly 1,100 tons of stone into ...
Collected from the deep waters off Puerto Rico, the species is a member of an enigmatic, and threatened, group of corals Jack Tamisiea The Nancy Foster research vessel explores the deep waters off of ...
Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great lengths to protect and restore them? Of course, it's partly because of ...
When a crown-of-thorns starfish settles onto a coral reef, it turns its own stomach inside out and gets to work dissolving ...
Throughout the first week of August, 12 organizations came together in an unprecedented collaborative effort to protect the ...
Fish surveys in the 1960s detected what experts thought was a dead coral reef barrier off the country of Benin. Decades later, researchers set off in small fishing boats to investigate it using sonar ...
As climate change continues to rewrite temperature records on land and in our oceans, coral scientists are taking action.
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