The documentary held its world premiere on April 9 in London to honor coral reef restoration efforts worldwide ...

As coastal development, pollution and climate change put increasing stress on the world's oceans, tropical reefs are losing reef-building corals at unprecedented rates. These corals—species with ...

Staghorn corals occur in shallow tropical reefs, slopes, and lagoons from Israel and Jordan to the eastern coast of Africa and all the way out to islands in the Pacific, such as Vanuatu and Kiribati.

Coral Reef Nightlife Becomes More Predatory With ... Nov. 20, 2024 — The tropical coastlines of Southeast Asia are home to some of the most important and biodiverse marine ecosystems on the ...

Coral reefs fringe many tropical coastlines, providing an important first line of defence against powerful tropical storms and weather systems, absorbing the brunt of the ocean’s energy.

Overfishing is diminishing the sustainability of tropical coral reef fisheries in East Africa, with small-scale fishers experiencing reduced catches as entire species vanish.

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

Bleaching of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef, north-east Australia which is caused by global warming The Great Barrier Reef became a recognised area of ecological importance when it was ...

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

Scientists led by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have discovered ... The study also changes our outlook on the major threats to coral reefs. Before, warming oceans and acidification ...

To understand how reefs and tropical storms (among other things) are going to be influenced by the effects of greenhouse gases in the future, it is important to have confidence in the projected ...