Florida’s iconic corals aren’t having babies anymore. Scientists are alarmed.
Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...
Suffocating seas: Low oxygen levels emerging as third major threat to tropical coral reefs
Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...
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Float like a jellyfish: New coral mobility mechanisms uncovered
a process where the coral inflates and deflates its tissue in rhythmic bursts to propel itself forward, like the movement seen in jellyfish. The mechanism appears to be a widespread strategy for ...
Big moms make big impact—half of the coral trout caught on Great Barrier Reef found to be from marine reserves
A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...
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Fourteen years after BP oil spill, Galveston scientists are striving to save the Gulf’s deep-sea coral
The process goes on for several hours until ... for restoring ocean habitats below 164 feet by studying deep-sea coral ...
Smithsonian Magazine24d
Assessing Coral Populations
Reef sustainability is closely tied to coral reproduction. Then director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Knowlton, who has since ...
The New York Times17d
These Corals Are Made for Walking
Supported by By Jason Bittel Jason Bittel previously reported on federal efforts to manage illegal coral trafficking ... This also assists the animals in reproduction. Migration “may help ...