Reef-forming coralline algae is currently at risk due to climate change, and scientists are doing something about it. They're creating synthetic reefs in the Mediterranean Sea, made from ...

Coralline red algae have existed for 130 million years, in other words since the Cretaceous Period, the time of the dinosaurs. At least this was the established view of palaeontologists all over ...

Researchers have revealed that most coralline algae experience negative effects from ocean acidification. Analysis of previous studies showed that changes in ocean chemistry can lead to declines ...

A 1,200-year-old sample of coralline algae that Adey and his team collected off the coast of Labrador in 2013 is one of hundreds of rarely displayed museum specimens on view in the exhibition ...

The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of red algae that grows on corals and strengthens them. New research led by Anna Weiss ...

Coralline algae, a group of calcified red algae, play a critical role in marine ecosystems by contributing to reef stability and acting as ecosystem engineers. Taxonomically, these algae are ...

Artificial coralline algae Giancarlo Raiteri, Marine Environment Research Centre ENEA, La Spezia, Italy The 60 synthetic mini reefs, each with 20 fronds, are just 10 centimeters in diameter ...

Now, by studying a 646-year-old coralline algae specimen off Kingitok Island in Labrador, researchers have been able to get unprecedented detail about variations in sea ice over the past few ...

If people could mimic the algae, they might be able to use it to help rehabilitate reefs by increasing the number of larvae that settle. But copying what the algae naturally does is no simple task.

Discover how an algae-based gel enhances coral restoration by attracting larvae to damaged reefs, increasing settlement rates by up to 20 times.

Dark algae that grow on the surface of Arctic ice sheets are likely to expand their range in the future, a trend that will ...