The Great Barrier Reef is set to receive a restocking of new coral from a pumice raft, the size of more than 20,000 football fields, now on its way to Australia following an underwater volca... Read more
Geoengineering of the climate may be the only way to save coral reefs from mass bleaching, according to new research. Coral reefs are considered one of the most vulnerable ecosystems to futu... Read more
While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to co... Read more
David Vaughan plunges his right arm down to his elbow into one of nine elevated tanks where thousands of tiny colonies of coral are growing at an astonishing rate in shaded seclusion next to... Read more
With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most Caribbean coral reefs may disappear in the next 20 years, primarily due to the loss of grazers in the region, according to th... Read more
Camera-equipped flying robots promise new insights into climate change effects on important ecosystems. Like undiscovered groves of giant redwoods, centuries-old living corals remain unmappe... Read more
Shocks caused by climate and seasonal change could be used to aid recovery of some of the world’s badly-degraded coral reefs, an international team of scientists has proposed. A new report b... Read more
The “Tamar Reef” shows that divers assign economic importance to aspects of reef biodiversity In 2007, an artificial reef designed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers was... Read more
Coral reefs are in decline, but their collapse can still be avoided with local and global action. That’s according to findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May... Read more
“The most exciting thing about this project is that it offers us the potential to restore the function of reefs, both shallow and deep, across the globe, which we all enjoy and benefi... Read more
Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs. A team of ‘coralbots’, each individually working to simple rules, will piece tog... Read more
Most people head off to an art exhibit with comfortable shoes and a deep appreciation for creativity. Jason deCaires Taylor’s work requires flippers and, to really appreciate it, a depth of... Read more
IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive i... Read more
“Not for 55m years has there been oceanic disruption of comparable severity” IN 1998 a rise in sea temperatures caused by El Niño, a periodic eastward surge of warm Pacific water, caus... Read more
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. In a delicate operation at sea, 28 healthy laboratory-raised staghorn coral colonies were transplanted last month by our Nova Southeastern Univers... Read more
