Two iconic Australian reefs face simultaneous coral bleaching, highlighting urgent threats to ocean ecosystems ...

A shocking mass bleaching event has hit a celebrated coral reef system off the Western Australian coast, and Australia's ...

On the Great Barrier Reef, bleaching is underway in the northernmost section. This is the sixth bleaching event on the Great ...

In this context, it is easy to see why protecting algae-eating fish has become a cornerstone of coral reef conservation. This paradigm assumes that restoring populations of "grazing" species by ...

Scroll down for video Coral reefs are living organisms that cover ... Corals have a symbiotic relationship with a tiny marine algae called 'zooxanthellae' that live inside and nourish them.

Over the past several decades, many studies have spotlighted the role of “grazers” – fish who feed on algae – in keeping coral reefs clean and healthy. Protecting parrotfish, a family of ...

The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam's Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are dying. The wat ...

When the water is too warm, corals will expel the algae living in their tissues ... we have seen improvements in live coral cover at many of the surveyed reefs at the Mersing islands, reversing ...