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is not standard fare for tropical reefs. Glowing corals in New Caledonia surrounded by bleached, white corals. The 2017 documentary Chasing Coral stumbled upon glowing coral reefs by accident.
As oceans warm due to climate change, some coral reefs have been devastated in recent years by bleaching events that cause them to die and damage the biodiversity that depends on them. Multiple ...
Scientists have discovered a trippy scene under the Red Sea, full of fluorescent, glowing corals. An international team of researchers discovered the colorful corals at depths of more than 150 ...
and scientists stress that reducing greenhouse gas emissions can help protect water quality, and by extent, coral reefs. You can see the glowing reefs on Google Maps.
Not all coral do this, and even within the same species on the same reef you might see one glowing coral next to one that’s dull. It’s an evolutionary genetic adaptation that is seen more ...
Study of 286 gall crabs from 14 genera reveals orange-red fluorescent patterns help camouflage crabs against coral reef ...
Fluorescent proteins all aglow in these corals. Photo by Michael Lesser and Charles Mazel, NOAA Ocean Explorer Anyone who has gone scuba diving or snorkeling in a coral reef will likely never ...
A new study reveals that the phenomenon in deep reefs in which corals display glowing colors (fluorescence ... (corals that live between the shallow coral reef area and the deep, completely ...
Colorful bleaching has been observed since 2010 in coral reefs around the globe, but the mechanism and reasoning behind it hasn't been understood. Now, researchers believe the glowing corals are ...