Sustainable fisheries management in coral reef ecosystems seeks to balance human livelihoods with the long-term health of reef communities. Coral reefs support high biodiversity and provide fisheries ...

Scientists say the relocation of coral away from the path of a new wastewater pipe has been a success and shows how coral can be moved to reduce the impact of developments and natural disasters. Adam ...

Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from microscopic algae which lives inside the corals' tissue and provides the coral with ...

Scientists found that coral tissues record pollution from nearby human activity, revealing hidden stress before reefs show ...

From Cuba, new clues to coral reef survival In the summer of 2023, a small research vessel set out to do something no scientific expedition had done before: circle the entire Cuban archipelago, ...

Coral reef restoration encompasses a diverse array of active interventions designed to reverse habitat degradation and bolster reef resilience in the face of climate change, overfishing and pollution.

Roughly 84% of the world’s coral reef area has now been exposed to heat stress severe enough to trigger mass bleaching, the ...

The world’s coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, ...

Aerial surveys conducted across the Great Barrier Reef during the 2024 Southern Hemisphere summer documented the most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator Led by Dr. Jordan Goetze from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation ...

One of the researchers, who is often towed underwater to count fish and coral on the Great Barrier Reef, says it feels like flying.