Turbinaria algae coat the corals, foreground, at a north shore reef on the French Polynesian island of Mo'orea. Turbinaria is a genus of brown algae found primarily in tropical marine waters.

In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and officially named four species of algae new to science, challenging previous taxonomical assumptions within the Porolithon genus. The ...

After two years of record-breaking ocean heat, scientists are assessing the impacts of the world’s fourth mass bleaching event on coral reefs around the globe. At least 74 countries and territories ...

There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history. Record-breaking sea surface temperatures have persisted globally since March 2023. In that time, more than three-quarters of the world’s ...

LONDON(Reuters) - Huge stretches of coral reef around the world are turning a ghostly white this year amid record warm ocean temperatures. On Monday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Mapping our coasts is critical for the conservation of coral reefs, atolls, mangroves, islands, estuaries, seagrass beds and ...

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A groundbreaking discovery has been made in the heart of the world-renowned Great Barrier Reef and unique reefs systems of the Coral Sea and Lord Howe Island, leading to a greater understanding of how ...