The stony coral (Oculina patagonica) after being exposed to acidic ocean condition (pH 7.4) after two months and four months. This shows how some coral species are able to adapt to more acidic ...

The slow growth rate of Gold Coral highlights the importance of protecting it from overharvesting and environmental impacts. Lophelia Coral, scientifically known as Lophelia pertusa, is a white or ...

Stony coral tissue loss disease, or SCTLD, was first reported off the coast of Miami in 2014 and has since moved throughout ...

The connection between polyps allows for the sharing of nutrients. Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton ...

Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Is Shifting the Ecological Balance of Caribbean Reefs May 3, 2024 — A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help heal it. In the last decade, a mysterious illness called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has been ravaging coral in reefs across the Caribbean.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. This discovery comes on the heels of the Trump Administration's ...

Sea fans--¬softer-bodied coral relatives--colonizing a dead stony coral framework. A new study, published Aug. 31 in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, finds that reef-building corals ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help heal it. In the last decade, a mysterious illness called stony coral tissue loss disease has been ravaging coral in reefs across the Caribbean.

Reginald is part of a team of ardent reef protectors in the Turks and Caicos Islands which, in 2019, became the seventh Caribbean country confirmed as being affected by stony coral tissue loss ...

the gene bank in the Bahamas will focus on preserving coral species unique to Bahamian waters, some of which are under threat from Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease which arrived in the Caribbean in ...