As world leaders gather to address a global marine crisis at the UN Ocean Conference, scientists from the Woods Hole ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to ...

Probiotics can be good for human health. Now, new research suggests they might also help protect coral reefs. A bacterial ...

The islands chosen are mostly concentrated throughout the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea ... For those whose lives are deeply entwined with the reefs, the study’s GIS maps show the ...

a coral reef ecologist. “The entire Caribbean right now is bleaching. If you picked a random spot on the map in the Caribbean and jumped in the water, you’re going to see bleached corals.” ...

The announcement came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Coral ... reefs and score the extent of bleaching. And that allows us to produce a map ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected ...

In the past year, mass bleaching has been confirmed in regions including Florida and the wider Caribbean ... Reef Watch program at NOAA added three new alert levels to the coral bleaching alert ...

Probiotics are everywhere, claiming to help us poop, restore gut health, and more. They can also be used to help threatened coral reefs. A bacterial probiotic has helped slow the spread of stony coral ...

With coral reefs in decline and NOAA ... as can be seen in this map of the Mesoamerican Reef, at the other end of the Caribbean from St. John. The corals in Hurricane Hole mangroves appear to ...

Marine scientist Greg Asner leads Allen Coral Atlas, a program that maps ... Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands, according to Asner. The problem is most severe in the Caribbean and ...