Are you planning a family vacation to Cape Coral, Florida? This picturesque city on the Gulf Coast has a lot to offer, especially for families. From thrilling waterparks to serene nature preserves and ...

Is visiting the Great Barrier Reef on your bucket list? It should be! It’s one of the world’s most fascinating ecosystems and unfortunately it’s disappearing fast due to environmental pressures and ...

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Coral reefs are both beautiful and utterly vital to the ocean ecosystem and the local environment. They provide homes, food and breeding sites for millions of marine plants and animals, including the ...

Coral reefs are threatened by rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions that are warmer, less favorable for calcification, have impaired water quality, and pose continuing disease threats. Coral ...

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2025 – Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world’s oceans, one quarter of all marine species spend some portion of ...

Researchers reveal the extent of plastic pollution on coral reefs, finding that debris increases with depth, largely stems from fishing activities, and is correlated with proximity to marine protected ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one quarter of all marine species spend some portion of their life on a reef. With so ...

Coral Springs, Florida, is a haven for families seeking fun and memorable experiences. Nestled in the heart of South Florida, this vibrant city offers a plethora of family-friendly activities that ...

This Fire Urchin (Asthenosoma varium) is hanging on to a fishingline while camouflaging itself with a piece of a blue plastic bag at about 130-m depth in the Philippines. These urchins usually pick up ...

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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (July 12, 2023) — In a paper published today in Nature, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, University of São Paulo, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, and ...