Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy—surface mucus, tissue, and skeleton—contain microplastics.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), the greenhouse gas fueling climate change, is increasingly shaping our lives. It drives rising seas, ...

Johns Hopkins University post-doc Justin Ries and collaborators demonstrated that corals can build their skeletons out of different minerals depending on the chemical composition of the seawater ...

Scientists have found a new way to fight climate change—by turning carbon dioxide (CO₂) into strong, fire-resistant building ...

and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies can be either dieocious or hermaphroditic and can also reproduce asexually through fragmentation and ...

Not only are they diverse communities, but the coral skeletons - like trees - contain potentially long term records of climate. Aa Aa Aa Corals reefs are communities of organisms in which corals ...

He used a long pole to leap along the coral reef edge. Darwin’s specimen of Porites coral. This group of corals takes on many forms and its skeleton is a favourite habitat for Christmas tree worms, ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Microbial endoliths, which inhabit interior pores of rocks, skeletons and coral, are ubiquitous in terrestrial and marine environments. In ...