With another El Niño expected in 2026, only a short time after the last one, many reefs will not have had sufficient time to ...

The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Image Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these ...

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

Overfishing and global warming are depleting food from our oceans, but rebuilding reef life could help provide millions of ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

Coral reefs face a global tipping point from mass bleaching caused by climate change and El Niño. Discover why 2026 could be ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new research. Parasites ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

The Tropical Reef Aquarium at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium reopened to the public in June 2024 following 2-1/2 years of restorations and repairs. The $7.09 million renovation project, which ...