Sea urchins play a vital role in coral reef health. These herbivorous creatures control algae growth, which can otherwise ...

In Australia, shellfish reef restoration projects are helping to recover degraded coastal systems and enhance fish habitat, ...

According to Johnson, black spot syndrome has been increasingly prevalent in important herbivorous grazing fish in the ...

For those who may be missing a visit to Reef HQ, a Townsville school is opening up their doors for the community to see their ...

Education and conservation are at the heart of what we do at the New England Aquarium. This new exhibit provides the ...

So the coral research that we do is specifically to help coral reefs in the wild – and try to find ways to mitigate – because ...

A new study suggests that more than 10% of the fish swimming in coral reefs are there because their habitats have been ...

For decades commercial aquarium collectors in Hawaii routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of endemic and indigenous Hawaiian reef fish and invertebrates a year, packaging the live fish in plastic ...

Kaupiko and his co-plaintiffs have led the charge to rein in the loosely regulated aquarium pet trade, which routinely extracted hundreds of thousands of small, attractive fish from Hawai‘i reefs ...

Coral reefs protect coastlines from strong currents, waves and tropical storms, and reef fish feed local populations with a valuable source of protein. There are many threats to the biodiversity ...