From food security to controlling seaweed and even making sand for beaches, reef fish are a hugely important part of marine ecosystems providing a range of benefits to humans and coral reef ...

At an over-fished Pacific reef, seaweed has taken over, diminishing coral populations to a fraction of what they would be otherwise. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...

This weakens the coral skeleton which become fragile and they are rapidly overgrown by seaweed. Climate change is increasing both the number of calm days and sea temperature at certain reefs and ...

He said he has seen seaweed and coral reefs dwindle and other local species disappear at most of the places he visited. But he had heard from a local guide at Sakieda Bay that coral there have ...

Coral reefs are sometimes called the “rainforests ... Researchers are taking tissue fragments from fish, seaweed and coral for signs of heavy metals and contaminants from burned wood, metal ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even ...

Researchers of Bangladesh Oceanographic Research Institute (BORI) found three sites in the Bay of Bengal, which are rich with coral and one site for coral reef. Among the coral sites, they ...

Water enthusiasts can admire colorful coral reef and the popular Christ of the ... but some warned that the beaches may be covered in foul-smelling seaweed depending on the current conditions.