Discover the vital coral reefs importance for ocean biodiversity, coastal protection, and marine conservation efforts to save ...
Or so the Beatles put it back in the good ole' days, before things got really rough in Neptune's realm. Amid a host of problems for the world's oceans, last week brought a reminder that coral reefs, ...
A vast array of new species was recently discovered in the world's most spectacular reef you've never heard of -- Madang Lagoon in Papua New Guinea. "It is the most diverse reef in the world," said ...
Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s coral reef. NOAA field team members ...
Almost half of all marine angelfishes surveyed so far hybridize frequently, both with close relatives and with distant relations, highlighting the question: what is a species? A juvenile marine ...
Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, ...
Florida’s coral reefs provide protection from hurricane storm surges—and experts estimate that losing key species in those ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An environmental group filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the U.S. government of failing to protect 12 endangered coral species across the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean that ...
A new study highlights the remarkably high incidence of and tendency toward hybridization in the angelfish family (even between divergent species), more so than in any other group of coral reef fishes ...