A retired Baltimore fireboat and a World War II-era tugboat were added to an artificial reef off the coast of Delaware earlier this week. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ...
What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), examines the correlation ...
An international team of researchers studied the behavioral changes among butterflyfish on a series of reefs in the Indo-Pacific before and after the 2016 global mass coral bleaching event. They found ...
New research has found that the protection of coral reefs has boosted the amount of fish they harbor by around 10%. The study used survey data from about 2,600 reefs with varying levels of protection ...
Coral reefs are undoubtedly in crisis. Scientists have documented concerning coral bleaching events, dramatic declines in coral cover, fish and shark populations across the Caribbean over recent ...
Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. When people hear about underwater reefs, they usually picture colorful gardens created ...
This story has been updated to clarify that, in 2021, the reef was the destination of certain numbers of boating trips, not boats. A retired Baltimore fireboat and a World War II-era tugboat were ...