Coral reef conservation needs to take an equitable approach and include local impacted communities in decision-making and ...

New research shows coral reef food webs are more isolated and fragile than expected, with key fish species tied to narrow ...

After the 1982-1983 El Niño warming event, the coral endemic to the Galápagos Islands experienced sharp population declines ...

Crackling shrimp sounds at night are helping scientists uncover which coral reefs are recovering - and which ones are in ...

When you think about climate change in our oceans, you may picture coral bleaching, melting sea ice, or extreme weather ...

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

We tackled these questions by running a three-year field experiment that mimicked overfishing (using fish-exclusion cages) and nutrient pollution (via the addition of common garden fertilizer) on a ...

Cleaner fish: Tiny healers or hidden spreaders in coral reef ecosystems? Tiny, hardworking cleaner fish play a role in reef microbial diversity Date: June 12, 2025 Source: University of California ...

The new study on clownfish, however, suggests individual fish are shrinking over mere weeks in response to a heat wave, which, in the case of the Papua New Guinea event, pushed temperatures in the ...

You may not think of fish as being noisy, but they can actually be a pretty vocal bunch. A new AI system is able to quickly identify specific fish calls within general reef noise, allowing ...

South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the sea.