Coral

PTI New Delhi, June 23Scientists have recorded four species of azooxanthellate corals for the first…

Earth's oceans are home to some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, but warming temperatures are causing many marine animals, including coral, to die out. A new study into managing…

Miami, May 9 Humans don’t know what they’re missing under the surface of a busy shipping channel in the “cruise capital of the world.” Just…

In the late 1990s, Vaughan learned that Aqua Life, an ornamental-fish-breeding operation on a small island in the Bahamas, was shutting down. Harbor Branch made a bid to buy what was left,…

AP Canberra, March 18 Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral…

Astonishingly, however, by 2010 global coral coverage was roughly back to pre-1998 levels. “That’s good news,” says Souter. “Even though reefs got knocked down, they got back up again.” When…

Lismore (Australia), August 21 A single generation of selective breeding can make corals better able to withstand extreme temperatures,…

To see what defenses coral have already evolved against warmer waters, Meibom and his colleagues wanted to learn just how much heat the corals and their complex network, called a holobiont,…

Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from flood damage. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the…