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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have announced the first ...

Reef "beauty salons" staffed by tiny cleaner fish aren t just for parasite removal they may also shape the microbial life of ...

Urgent action is critical to safeguard coral reefs. Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director, emphasizes integrating ...

As coral reefs undergo a fourth global mass bleaching event, marine scientists have been studying whether new reefs might ...

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

As the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains, humanity’s burning of fossil fuels and land use ...

The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a ...

In a study published today in Science Advances, researchers at UH Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Marine ...

So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has ...