If shellfish populations collapse, the animals that eat them will also suffer, with ripple effects throughout the ocean's food web. Two important planetary ecosystems, coral reefs and polar regions, ...

This is according to a rapid assessment expedition led by Conservation International with New Zealand Geographic.

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

Grad season came early for Fundación Dominicana de Estudios Marinos (FUNDEMAR), a coral reef restoration organization based out of the Dominican Republic.  The nonprofit is the first of its kind to ...

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the largest coral reef in the world. It spans 1,400 miles and is home to 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusk ...

The AI algorithm, trained on six distinct families of coral images, uses advanced computer vision and deep learning techniques to track curious corals.

Coral reefs are critical to both humans and the ... 500 million people through fishing and tourism. Yet overfishing, ocean acidification, and, most significantly, climate change are threatening ...

But coral reefs are also vulnerable to adverse climate change events such as ocean acidification which results in coral bleaching. However, in a bid to preserve the already identified corals and ...

Coral reefs, vital for biodiversity below the waves, can act as a litmus test for ocean health. Warming waters, acidification and human activities are threatening coral reefs like never before.