While plants and some bacteria can make their ... jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is ...

DAR seeks public input on Oʻahu coral reef restoration, with potential sites at Waikīkī and South Shore. Community feedback ...

Here are five innovative ways that the world’s colorful coral reefs are being restored and given hope. Despite their plant-like appearance, corals are animals that mostly reproduce by spawning ...

Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and die, adding particles and organic material to the sediment, and contributing to the efficient ...

individual coral reefs, and every one of them is in a different condition. Narrator: It's also the world's largest living structure as well as a home to thousands of plant and animal species.

The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and have contributed to the ...

Without healthy coral reefs, the islands wouldn’t even exist ... corals are technically considered tiny animals since, unlike plants, they don’t make their own food. Sometimes as small ...

Researchers at the Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences (Mubadala ACCESS) at NYU Abu Dhabi have ...

Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic data automatically, ...

Extracts from animals and plants living on reefs have been used to develop treatments for asthma, arthritis, cancer and heart disease. Explore the risks facing coral reefs.