Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

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 ...

A tracking study of two species of sea turtles that nest in the Red Sea revealed the importance of foraging areas and ...

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...

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 ...

The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022 ...

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with about one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter at some point in their lifecycle.

What started out as a great idea and an attempt to save the environment ended in destruction. The shipping industry is not ...