The future looks grim for coral reefs. Warmer oceans, overfishing, pollution, and gradually acidifying waters have destroyed more than a third of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs. Just this ...

Video above: Coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered in Australian watersScientists have discovered what they say is the oldest tropical reef fish recorded anywhere in the world — ...

Recent record-breaking ocean temperatures have killed off so many elkhorn and staghorn corals, they are on the verge of disappearing completely, scientists have found.

Jodie L. Rummer receives funding from the Australian Research Council. While we don’t know if fish populations declined from the 2016 bleaching disaster, one 2018 study did show the types of fish ...

Sally Keith receives funding from NERC. This research was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (Rachel L. Gunn, grant number NE/L002604/1), with Rachel L. Gunns studentship through ...

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Fact: Unsustainable fishing methods are harming coral reefs and tropical fish populations. Fact: Movies like Finding Nemo and Finding Dory may increase the demand for tropical fish. Fact: While clown ...

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An exhibit on coral reefs and how global climate change threatens them will be the focus of the Aquarium of the Pacific this summer — as it was supposed to be last year. “Coral Reefs: Nature’s ...

Swirling eddies in the ocean have long been thought to be beneficial to organisms such as larval fishes residing within them because of enhanced phytoplankton production. However, direct evidence for ...

This is a big deal. Coral reefs support about a quarter of all marine biodiversity in just 1 percent of the ocean’s space. And so tropical reef fish, among the most vulnerable organisms when it comes ...