The 'Reef Adapt' ... Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and ...

Coral reefs, vital to marine ecosystems and millions of people worldwide, are on the brink of collapse due to climate change. A new study led by Dr. Liam Lachs, a postdoctoral research associate ...

Coral reefs are some of the richest and most imperiled ecosystems on the planet. But maybe they aren’t as close to the brink as we thought. Scientists have been warning that without dramatic ...

Recent research led by the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa challenges the commonly held belief that coral reefs face inevitable decline. Led by the ...

If carbon emissions are curbed and local stressors are addressed, coral reefs have the potential to persist and adapt over time. That's according to a study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Coral polyps are the individual animals that collectively form a coral colony. Within each polyp lies a central mouth, encircled by tentacles armed with stinging cells. (Photo courtesy Dan Mele) On ...

VEGA BAJA, PUERTO RICO — Ricardo Laureano suspected there was something special about the elkhorn corals in the El Eco reef, in northern Puerto Rico. In his 16 years of protecting and monitoring their ...

Many of the world’s coral reefs have lost their color in the largest bleaching event on record. Rising ocean temperatures are affecting 77% of the coral reefs in 74 countries. Bleaching occurs when ...

A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists surveyed reefs at 100 sites around ...

Almost all of your corals have doubled in size.” The coral guardian program at Velaa is one of many urgent reef-restoration projects taking place at resorts across this nation of 1,192 tiny islands.

In an island-based laboratory adjacent to the coral reefs they study, HIMB researchers created 40 experimental systems known as “mesocosms,” which mimic the diversity and environment of a ...