A new study of coral reefs in Papua New Guinea shows ocean acidification simplifies coral structure, making crucial habitat less appealing to certain fish species. A new study of coral reefs in Papua ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

Joshua Cinner receives funding from the Australian Research Council and National Geographic Society. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the International Coral Reef ...

Coral reefs shape the daily rise and fall of nearby microbes, organizing them into rhythms that influence how reef ecosystems ...

The researchers found that coral reefs across the world could raise sustainable fish production by almost 50 percent. This increase could provide between 20,000 and 162 million extra fish servings per ...

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

Shallow reefs and the creatures that inhabit them are changing due to rising ocean temperatures, but these impacts have been obscured by a lack of comprehensive local data. A team of researchers has ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off ...

A small Dutch crowdfunding project is trying to 3D print reefs to provide habitat for fish, protection for beaches and coastal communities at risk from rising seas, and a future for reefs devastated ...

Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.