Scientists discovered that crabs eat young crown-of-thorns starfish, reducing their population before they damage coral reefs ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While we know ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the prestigious ...

Mass coral mortality is the worst it’s ever been. Some scientists say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with ...

THE gentle waves off central Vietnam's Nha Trang coast obscure an open secret: the coral reefs below are dying.

The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam's Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are ...

“The only solution is for the whole world to get together and stop polluting the earth with carbon emissions,” says Hoggett. ...

Dr Uthicke said they then settled on areas of coral rubble ... would eat juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish in aquariums, scientists went out on the reef and surveyed the crabs and CoTS present.

In 2022, local authorities paused tourism to give the reef time to recover while removing predatory starfish and cleaning the seabed. The government has also approved a coral nursery project to ...