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A new study by scientists from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences describes how the presence of sharks has helped shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific.
Read moreScientists studying coral reefs in Bermuda have concluded that rising seawater temperatures are beneficial to coral reefs—but only if the rate of increase is not too rapid or too excessive.
Read moreAccording to new data released, during the heat waves of 2014 and 2015, nearly half of Hawaii's coral reefs were bleached.
Read moreScientists have discovered that some corals in the waters of Cook Islands have genetic variants that predispose then to heat tolerance.
Read moreMarine animals like fish and turtles have been found to consume plastic trash in the oceans because of its resemblance to prey.
Read moreWhen studying a specimen of walking coral retrieved from the Oshima Strait in southern Japan, ecologist Professor Makoto Kato and his colleague Momoko Igawa made an unexpected discovery.
Read moreAs Florida steadily recovers from the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, scientists have suggested that the escalated severity of damage was due to the degradation of the coral reefs in the vicinity.
Read moreA study involving scientists from the United States and Australia compared 18th century British nautical charts with current satellite data to uncover some surprising facts about how the coral reefs in the Florida Keys have developed over the past
Read moreA symbiotic relationship exists between the corals and the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium species. The latter provides the coral with energy in exchange for nutrients and carbon dioxide.
Read moreSince the 1980s, staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) populations in the Caribbean have declined by as much as 90 percent. This coral species was listed as “threatened” under the U.S.
Read moreA microalgae called Symbiodinium may hold the key to countering the threat of climate change faced by coral reefs. As a genus of primary producers found in coral, it produces molecules that feed the corals.
Read moreDeep-sea scleractinian reefs can be found in places like the North Atlantic and South Pacific, but this is not the case for the North Pacific.
Read moreJennifer O’Leary, a California Sea Grant Marine Biologist based at Polytechnic State University, and her colleagues surveyed 97 marine experts to get their observations about climate-induced perturbations, including temperature changes, severe sto
Read moreSeveral weeks ago, a team of researchers from California Academy of Sciences’ Hope for Reefs initiative returned from their latest expedition in the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines—long considered as the “center of the center of marine sho
Read moreCoral reef habitats that are more complex tend to recover faster than environmental disturbances because such structures create eddies in the current that help their coral larvae settle down and help to rebuild the reef.
Read moreThe waters around Bonaire include a marine park with some of the most well-preserved coral reefs in the Caribbean basin.
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