Coral reefs host a quarter of all sea species, but climate change, overfishing, and pollution could drive these ecosystems to extinction within a matter of decades. Marine biologists have been racing ...

I dove off the back of our sailboat into the warm waters of the South Pacific just after sunrise. My husband and 10 year-old son followed, each holding an underwater camera. Together, we kicked over ...

Scientific wisdom says corals reproduce at night. But on reefs around the Indo-Pacific, that might not be the case. By Chloe Glad/Hakai Magazine Published Aug 2, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article was ...

Valérie Chamberland swims like a dolphin, quickly and fluidly, and for most of the past hour she has been darting through the warm, shallow water off the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Now she is ...

Chiara Marchini, Francesca Gizzi, Thomas Pondrelli, Lisa Moreddu, Luca Marisaldi, Francesco Montori, Valentina Lazzari, Valentina Airi, Erik Caroselli, Fiorella Prada ...

It’s the search for romance down below. We’d normally tell you that love is in the air, but in this case there’s no air required. Turns out, after dark in mid August is just the right time for corals ...

The Florida Aquarium has made a breakthrough that will help save “America’s Great Barrier Reef,” the third largest coral reef in the world. For the first time in world history, the aquarium in Tampa, ...

Morgan Pratchett receives funding from Australian government and non-government organisations including the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Fisheries Research and Develoipment Coporation (FRDC) ...

Smooth flower corals bred and grown to maturity at Mote Marine Laboratory’s International Coral Gene Bank successfully spawned just 22 months after they were produced by corals from the Florida Reef ...