President Donald Trump has signed an order stripping protections from the Pacific Islands Marine Heritage National Monument ...

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UNESCO’s comments confirm what experts already know: despite substantial money and effort, threats to the Great Barrier Reef ...

A new study published inThe American Naturalist sheds light on the peculiar phenomenon of “grazing halos”—ghostly, vegetation ...

The study analyzes the spatial distribution patterns of "grazing halos" surrounding coral reefs. Around the world, coral ...

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Scientists and park managers once thought giant sequoia forests nearly impervious to stressors like wildfire, drought and pests. Yet, even very large trees are proving vulnerable, particularly when ...

Most of the world’s coral reefs, and the communities that directly depend on them, are in the tropics, so one might imagine ...

As the world confronts escalating climate impacts, biodiversity loss, and ocean degradation, islands stand as critical test cases—not just as sites of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of ...

Reefs will reach a tipping point where the carbonate ... When that happens, they will begin to disintegrate. The most diverse ecosystem in the ocean—a planetary feature for 240 million years ...

We know that noisy reefs are healthy, but carefully listening to the sounds made by fish, invertebrates and humans underwater can help us understand the details better, such as changing diversity, ...

A new study reveals that heat-tolerant symbiotic algae may be essential to saving elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) -- a foundational species in Caribbean reef ecosystems -- from the devastating ...