Reflectance spectroscopy and microscale temperature measurements were used to investigate links between optical and thermal properties of corals. Coral tissue heating showed a species-specific linear ...

May 9, 2024 — After a century of functional extinction on the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef has been successfully restored along a metropolitan Adelaide ... Stony Coral Tissue Loss ...

In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.

In mid-2023, the Caribbean Sea simmered as air temperatures soared, marking the hottest days ever recorded in Puerto Rico and ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes ... rips living tissue from surprised prey. In the world of predators ...

We explore five cutting-edge developments that could help restore and maintain reefs. A diver explores ... a fingernail―and this stimulates the coral tissue to grow into coral clones much ...

Coral reefs are critical for fisheries, tourism, protecting against coastal erosion — and they help develop life-saving ...

Researchers in the US have developed a tool to assess the risk of coral ... Tissue Loss Disease outbreak in the 2010s and 2020s in Florida and the Caribbean," the HIMB researchers write in their ...

Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality.

The Great Barrier Reef is under critical ... emissions internationally." Coral bleaching occurs when stress causes the corals to expel the algae that live in their tissue. The algae give corals ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

spiky custodians gobble up the algae that smother coral reefs Lisa S. Gardiner, Hakai As rice coral spreads it reduces biodiversity ...