With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial ...

New research has found that the protection of coral reefs has boosted the amount of fish they harbor by around 10%. The study used survey data from about 2,600 reefs with varying levels of protection ...

The fate of these ecosystems may hinge on events in the Pacific Ocean, in particular a natural climate cycle called the El ...

Marine Biologist Aran Mooney has proposed a possible solution to all of the ongoing issues with coral reefs: fish music. Working with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Massachusetts, ...

Coral reefs, those vibrant underwater cities, stand on the precipice of collapse. While rising ocean temperatures and coral bleaching grab headlines, a new essay in Current Biology reveals a hidden ...

Joshua Cinner receives funding from the Australian Research Council and National Geographic Society. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the International Coral Reef ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

Ambitious coral restoration efforts are underway across the atolls of the Maldives — with the help of some hands-on guests. I’d been home for six months when the email arrived: “With the help of ...

The substance, applied to surfaces as a coating, improved coral larvae settlement by up to 20 times in experiments compared to untreated surfaces Coral larvae are picky about where they attach and ...