Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty ...
Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate ...
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 ...
Hundreds of meters below the Atlantic’s surface, off the coast of the southeastern United States, sonar pulses bounced off ...
A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...
Oysters are so much more than a seafood delicacy. They’re ecosystem engineers, capable of building remarkably complex reefs. These structures act as the kidneys of the sea, cleaning the water and ...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.
Rhode Island's Northern star coral, Astrangia poculata, is the first hard coral species to undergo successful gene insertion. Researchers manipulated Astrangia's genes, potentially offering insights ...
University of British Columbia botanists have discovered parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs in cold marine ecosystems. C. californica that tested positive for corallicolids.