Stony corals like these are at risk in a changing climate, but are difficult to study in the lab. An easy-to-use lab system will help scientists study solutions to assist corals.

The stony coral (Oculina patagonica) after being exposed to more acidic (pH 7.4) ocean conditions. It undergoes a transition from a colonial to solitary forms. This is one mechanism by which some ...

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, or SCTLD, was first reported off the coast of Miami in 2014 and has since moved throughout the Caribbean, having been identified in 18 countries and territories ...

Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on Earth and are critically important for a number of species and for fisheries and biodiversity of the oceans. Norwegian waters support ...

Professor Leo Chan Lai, the survey’s principal investigator, said Hong Kong had a wide variety of habitats, with stony coral species, mostly located in eastern waters, outnumbering those in the ...

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 ...

The 'Reef Adapt' ... Researchers Use the Sounds of Healthy Coral Reefs to Encourage Growth of a New Species of Coral Larvae Oct. 23, 2024 — Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and ...

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 ...

The groups grow corals, preserve threatened and endangered species and build gene banks. Reefs in Florida and 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 ...