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Seagrass meadows have the ability to reduce the bacteria that are pathogenic to both people and marine life by 50 percent. In addition, those corals that are found near seagrass meadows exhibit only half of the prevalence of disease.
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In our article, "Why and how our coral reefs change" (link) published in X-Ray Mag
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While most research in the field focuses on the impact of ocean acidification on individual species, this study predicts how acidification will affect living habitats such as corals, seagrasses and kelp forests.
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A team of researchers recorded underwater video around August between 2002 and 2012 every year at 12 sites along a 25-kilometre stretch of coast adjacent to the Solitary Island Marine Park off northern New South Wales.
Read moreGenetic analysis suggest every single lionfish in the Atlantic descended from fewer than 10 lionfish females which gives an idea of how quickly and massively these fishes have affected the ecosystems.
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Currently there are two projects in place on the English south coast to create an artificial reef.
Read moreFor two years, the researchers from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science collected water samples along the 200-kilometer (124-mile) stretch of the Florida Reef Tract north of Biscayne National Park to the Lo
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The existence of the reef have come as big surprise because many of the world’s great rivers produce major gaps in reef systems where no corals grow.
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Ocean acidification affects biological processes in a wide range of marine taxa.
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Rising temperature of the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula - one of the most rapidly warming places on the planet - should make it possible for king crab populations to move to the shallow continental shelf from their current deep-sea habitat
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The word "symbiosis" literally means "living together". In biology, it refers to a close and usually obligatory association between two organisms of different species.
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Many years of restraint and restrictive fishing quotas seem to finally have paid off. Within a decade the stocks of spawning cod has almost doubled
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Although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2 percent of the world's oceans, they are responsible for more than 10 percent of all carbon buried annually in the sea, according to a research paper published this week in the journal Nature Geoscienc
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UNESCO's world heritage body, based in Paris, commissioned an expert report on the threats to the reef, including climate change, pollution run-off from the mainland and continuing coastal development.
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According to Gibraltar’s department of the environment, an artificial reef protested by Spain is now “exploding with life”.
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In an article just published in the open access science journal PloS One, the first appearance of lionfish off the Brazilian coast have been reported.
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