Divers clutch wooden spears as they hunt hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands. These ...

High-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp, particularly at night, can serve as an effective indicator of coral reef ...

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts” A marine ecologist on the impacts of losing this ecological “canary in the coal mine.

A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

In a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind milestone for coral restoration, scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel ...

These are just a few of the challenges we ran up against on our four-year endeavor to ask the the not-so-simple question: “How do three human factors – overfishing, pollution and climate change – ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast.

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coast. The reef was devastated by ...

The Future Reefs team at the University of Technology Sydney, led by marine biologist Dr. Emma Camp (pictured), wants to protect the reef by finding “super corals,” species that are naturally ...