Coral Reef News

Posted May 17, 2013:

• First Ever Underwater University Lectures

Posted May 16, 2013:

• Coral Reef Fishes Prove Invaluable in the Study of Evolutionary Ecology

Posted May 14, 2013:

• Cooling Ocean Temperature Could Buy More Time for Coral Reefs
• Microbes Capture, Store, and Release Nitrogen to Feed Reef-Building Coral
• Corals Turn to Algae for Stored Food When Times Get Tough

Posted May 9, 2013:

• Coral Reefs Suffering, but Collapse Not Inevitable

Posted April 23, 2013:

• Insights Into Deadly Coral Bleaching Could Help Preserve Reefs: Surprising Result from Study of 1893 World's Fair Corals
• Why Soft Corals Have Unique Pulsating Motion

Posted April 7, 2013:

• Air Pollution Stunts Coral Growth

Posted April 5, 2013:

• Remote Coral Reefs Can Be Tougher Than They Look: Western Australia’s Scott Reef Has Recovered from Mass Bleaching

Posted March 26, 2013:

• Hope for Galapagos Wildlife Threatened by Marine Invaders

Posted March 12, 2013:

• Fluorescent Light Revealed as Gauge of Coral Health: Mysterious Glow of Light Found to Correlate With Coral Stress Prior to Bleaching

Posted February 28, 2013:

• New Marine Species Discovered in Pacific Ocean

Posted February 25, 2013:

• New Maps Depict Potential Worldwide Coral Bleaching by 2056

Posted February 21, 2013:

• Conserving Corals by Understanding Their Genes

Posted February 12, 2013:

• Picky Eater Fish Clean Up Seaweeds from Coral Reefs

Posted February 6, 2013:

• How New Corals Species Form in the Ocean

Posted February 4, 2013:

• Tortugas Marine Reserve Yields More, Larger Fish

Posted February 1, 2013:

• Coral-Killing Starfish Decimate Entire Coral Reefs, Reason for Spread Unclear
• How Do Corals Survive in the Hottest Reefs on the Planet?

Posted January 29, 2013:

• New Evidence Highlights Threat to Caribbean Coral Reef Growth: Many Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Starting to Erode

Posted January 23, 2013:

• How the Purple and Pink Sunscreens of Reef Corals Work

Posted January 8, 2013:

• Heat-Resistant Corals Provide Clues to Climate Change Survival

Posted December 17, 2012:

• Injured Coral? Expect Less Sex

Posted December 12, 2012:

• Scary News for Corals -- from the Ice Age

Posted December 11, 2012:

• International Trade in Live Corals Could Help Preserve Wild Corals and Coral Reefs Ecosystems, Study Suggests

Posted November 29, 2012:

• An Ocean Away: Two New Encrusting Anemones Found in Unexpected Locations

Posted November 26, 2012:

• New Crab Species Discovered Off the Coast of Belize

Posted November 15, 2012:

• Scientists Improve Dating of Early Human Settlement

Posted November 13, 2012:

• Naïve Fish: Easy Targets for Spear Fishers

Posted November 8, 2012:

• Corals Attacked by Toxic Seaweed Use Chemical 911 Signals to Summon Help from Fish
• Historic Coral Collapse on Great Barrier Reef

Posted October 22, 2012:

• Sweden’s Only Coral Reef at Risk of Dying

Posted October 17, 2012:

• Corals and Food Security: Study Shows Nations at Risk

Posted October 14, 2012:

• Too Much Helpful Algae Can Be Bad for Corals

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Fisheries Benefit from 400-Year-Old Tradition
• New Cave-Dwelling Reef Coral Discovered in the Indo-Pacific

Posted October 9, 2012:

• What Might Have Caused Recent Increase of Coral Diseases in the Caribbean?

Posted October 3, 2012:

• It's Not Too Late for Coral Reefs, Experts Say

Posted October 2, 2012:

• Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half of Its Coral in the Last 27 Years

Posted September 27, 2012:

• Scientists Capture Clues to Sustainability of Fish Populations

Posted September 26, 2012:

• Coral Hotspots Found in Deepwater Canyons Off Northeast US Coast

Posted September 24, 2012:

• Climate Is Changing the Great Barrier Reef

Posted September 20, 2012:

• DNA Analysis Aids in Classifying Single-Celled Algae

Posted September 19, 2012:

• The 'Slippery Slope to Slime': Overgrown Algae Causing Coral Reef Declines
• Osteoporosis in the World's Oceans: Bioeroding Sponges Are Threatening Coral Reefs

Posted September 16, 2012:

• Most Coral Reefs Are at Risk Unless Climate Change Is Drastically Limited, Study Shows

Posted September 3, 2012:

• Tracking Fish Through a Coral Reef Seascape: Ear-Bone 'Tree Rings' Provide Evidence of Connectivity

Posted August 30, 2012:

• Viruses Could Be the Key to Healthy Corals
• Coral Scientists Use New Model to Find Where Corals Are Most Likely to Survive Climate Change

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