Coral reef communities are fighting against the fourth global bleaching event. This phenomenon could become the most devastating one yet. Coral reefs are underwater communities formed by colonies of ...

The Living Architecture of Our Oceans " These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Destructive’ marine heatwaves driving loss of microalgae that feed coral, says Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network ...

By the year 2100, rising carbon dioxide levels are expected to alter ocean chemistry so severely that coral reef communities in Australia and worldwide will recover more slowly, lose ecological ...

As co-founder of Mega Lab, Kapono is spearheading a global initiative to map 1 million coral reefs by 2030 and establish a ...

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India’s coral reefs are rapidly collapsing under unprecedented ocean warming and repeated bleaching events. Scientists warn that restoration may no longer be enough, with reefs nearing an irreversible ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, supports countless jobs in every corner of the globe, and absorbs ...

Coral reef ecosystems support a quarter of all marine life on Earth, but they are slowly dying under the relentless stresses of overfishing, pollution, disease and climate change. As part of our ...

In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally developed to ...