Bleached coral reefs usually appear as an endless stretch of white coral and eventually turn to dead brown coral ... causing them to expel the colored algae known as zooxanthellae that they ...

Without them, the reef would quickly become a lifeless moonscape. One important algal group, benthic (bottom-dwelling) algae, rapidly grows over dead coral and other inert objects, providing a ...

What is the staghorn coral? Like its name ... Colors range from dark gray and brown to more vibrant pinks, purples, and blues. Staghorn corals occur in shallow tropical reefs, slopes, and lagoons ...

After two years of record-breaking ocean heat, scientists are assessing the impacts of the world's fourth mass bleaching ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a ...

Not far beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, where the Great Barrier Reef lives ... draped with nubby brown corals as leathery as saddles. Soft corals top hard ones, algae and sponges paint ...

A coalition of organizations is working together to combat pollution and agricultural runoff, aiming to safeguard the ...

One inch of the coral’s light brown tips ... was covered in algae.” With tourism as the country’s biggest industry, resorts ...

the development of heat-resistant corals or algae remains the most promising solution – ideally in combination with other methods, such as the 3D-printed reefs. «The situation for coral reefs ...

Lab studies suggested that crabs avoided living coral tissue, instead feeding in areas of recent tissue loss. Out on the reef, the team observed that wounded corals lost patches of algae faster ...