Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they ...

A new type of built coral reef has been deployed off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. Coral reef restoration project OceanShot designed the structures and implemented them with the help of the ...

No audio available for this content. This is a challenging time for coral reefs. Although they cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support 25% of all marine creatures. Collectively, ...

Coral reef tree used to grow coral used for new reef module. deployed off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. (Photo courtesy of Ocean Shot Project.) Researchers have deployed a new type of coral reef ...

An introduction to the structure and formation of modern reefs -- Reef minerals and mineralization -- Reef cyanobacteria -- Reef algae and foraminiferans -- Reef sponges -- Reef corals and their ...

Aerial image of coral reef and coastline in the South Kona, Hawaiʻi region. Credit: ASU Global Airborne Observatory When imagining corals, the picture that comes to mind is usually a stationary one: a ...

By Carolyn Cowan Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered ...