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 ...

Climate change is warming the whole planet, but the ocean is absorbing most of that heat. That’s bad news for creatures that are sensitive to temperature changes, like corals. When waters get too ...

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

Using their strong beak-like teeth (which give them their name), parrotfish scrape algae off coral reefs, inevitably ingesting the calcium carbonate skeleton of the coral in the process. This coral ...

What do we do to save reefs? Our work suggests that managing reefs at the local level by protecting important fish species and minimizing pollution can help prevent coral death.

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 ...