Most people head off to an art exhibit with comfortable shoes and a deep appreciation for creativity. Jason deCaires Taylor’s work requires flippers and, to really appreciate it, a depth of... Read more
IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive i... Read more
“Not for 55m years has there been oceanic disruption of comparable severity” IN 1998 a rise in sea temperatures caused by El Niño, a periodic eastward surge of warm Pacific water, caus... Read more
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. In a delicate operation at sea, 28 healthy laboratory-raised staghorn coral colonies were transplanted last month by our Nova Southeastern Univers... Read more
Co-management partnerships are having considerable success A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 co... Read more
Our results suggest that severe reductions are likely to occur in coral reef diversity, structural complexity and resilience Combining computer modeling with observations, an internat... Read more
Can fish save coral reefs from dying? UC Santa Barbara researchers have found one case where fish have helped coral reefs to recover from cyclones and predators. Coral reefs worldwide... Read more
Global warming is a coral reef migration. As the globe warms, many temperature-sensitive species have to adapt or expire. Many in the scientific community have been particularly concerned ab... Read more
The prospects of saving the world’s coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. A meeting in Denmark took evidence from... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A heartening tale of business and the environment RED lionfish are pretty, but they are also greedy. A single one of them, introduced into a coral reef where the species... Read more