This study measured the growth rate of coral reefs in Honaunau Bay, Hawaii, using on-site data gathering and aerial imagery. Researchers found that the reefs are being eroded by sea urchin populations ...

The study analyzes the spatial distribution patterns of "grazing halos" surrounding coral reefs. Around the world, coral ...

A new study published inThe American Naturalist sheds light on the peculiar phenomenon of “grazing halos”—ghostly, vegetation ...

As coral reefs struggle to adapt to warming waters, high levels of pollution and sea-level rise, ballooning sea-urchin populations are threatening to ...

Coral reefs are known for their vibrant, rainbow-hued colors. They are vital to 25% of ocean life, even though they only make up less than 1% of the planet’s surface. They provide food and shelter for ...

A new bioengineered ink dramatically boosts coral larvae settlement. The oceans are getting hotter and coral reefs are ...

Their health is in jeopardy due to increased ocean acidification, rising temperatures, pollution runoff, and overfishing and other destructive fishing practices. The news is not uniformly bleak. A ...

Coral Reefs in Vietnam Face Collapse ... trigger algal blooms that block sunlight and choke corals. Intense overfishing killed off fishes that support reef health. By 2019, an outbreak of a ...

A new study led by shark ecologist and FIU alumna Naomi F. Farabaugh found the type of species and number of sharks and rays ...

Coral reefs are critical to ocean and human life because they provide food, living area, storm protection, tourism income, and more. However, human-induced stressors, such as overfishing, sediment, ...

Between 2009 and 2018, the world lost 14% of its coral reefs, and 90% of those that remain are at risk from climate change, pollution, overfishing and anthropogenic threats. The 2024 U.N ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might ... The island has protected its reef from threats like overfishing for more than half a century, longer than pretty much any other region worldwide.