Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from ...

This annual synchronized mass coral spawning is essential for the survival of these corals, and in effect, the entire coral reef ecosystem. The gametes and planulae provide nutrition for the many ...

The study introduces a method known as "a coral reef ecosystem transplant" (aCRET), where researchers transferred biomimetic terracotta tiles embedded with a diverse community of organisms ...

April 10, 2024: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration measures heat stress near Lord Howe island to provide coral reef ecosystem managers with tools to understand and respond to mass ...

To find out what this means for coral reefs and the people, animals and entire ecosystems that depend on them, host Maiya May is jumping right in — literally. In “Weathered: Earth’s Extremes ...

Margaret Wertheim talks about how math and climate change inspired her to start the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project. Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag ...

they’re incredibly acoustically diverse—and coral reefs are a particularly loud and diverse set of sounds that you can hear, but also they’re really interesting and important ecosystems to u ...