Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs from fish feeding, looking for mates, or defending their territories, underscored by the persistent crackling of ...

Coral reefs cover less than 0.1% of our ocean, but they are home to 25% of its wildlife and provide livelihoods, food security and protection from tropical storms for an estimated 850 million people ...

Coral reefs are often described as the rainforests of the sea. The (typically) vibrantly colored underwater ecosystems are built by colonies of tiny animals called polyps. Coral reefs provide ...

A human rights-based approach to coral reef protection could ensure governments are held to account for safeguarding marine ecosystems. A human rights-based approach to coral reef protection could ...

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week.

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Historically, tropical storms and cyclones have been the biggest disruptors to Moorea's reefs. "They tend to scrape all the ...

Professor Christian Voolstra, a co-author and the elected President of the International Coral Reef Society said, "The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated with high ...

The fate of a popular fish found on the Great Barrier Reef could be in jeopardy, with a new James Cook University study highlighting the impact of marine heat waves on the Spanish Flag Snapper.

Living together as coral reefs, they protect coastlines from storms and erosion, provide jobs for local communities, are a source of food via fisheries and new medicines, attract tourists ...

“It’s a typical tropical coral reef community – hard corals, soft corals, sponges and there’s also a really high diversity of fishes.” Battershill also expected there’d be leakage of ...