Most coral reefs do not thrive in nutrient-poor “marine deserts” as once believed, but instead flourish in nutrient-rich ...

Robots give scientists unprecedented access to study coral reef biodiversity. Dec 6, 2024. Detecting coral biodiversity in seawater samples. Mar 29, 2023.

University of Missouri researchers find Earth's ancient animal reefs were surprisingly sparse compared to their modern ...

The study stresses the need for data-driven monitoring of reef conditions. Tools like coral colony volume assessments, ...

Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold ...

Recently, in a report by Huang Yue, CGTN focused on the coral reef crisis in the South China Sea through an interview video ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

But this study found that early reefs did not appear to boost biodiversity in the same way, Casey Bennett, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and lead author on the study ...

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will take up more carbon dioxide – an effect that ...