Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a labyrinthine, living ring. A coral reef is punctured at points by reef ...

Coral reefs occupy less than one tenth of one percent of the ocean floor, yet they shelter roughly a quarter of all marine ...

A rare underwater sighting of orange, white, and green corals growing together off Minicoy in Lakshadweep has opened a new window into how coral colonies respond differently to rising sea temperatures ...

Coral reefs are often described in scientific terms: ecosystems rich in biodiversity, natural storm barriers, and sources of food and income. Yet for many scientists, the path into reef research did ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species supports its own specialized microbial partners, many of which have never ...

Engineers at MIT have designed an innovative robot inspired by hawksbill sea turtles, aptly named Crush, to assist in coral ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The absorption of CO 2 is making the oceans increasingly acidic. The shells of ...

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns. By Quinn Glabicki Coral reefs around the world, struggling as climate change ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

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The world’s coral reefs are losing both hard coral cover and, just as critically, the time they need to recover between ...