Scientists Claim ‘Parrotfish’ Create 70% Of The Sand On These Tropical Coasts
Parrotfish are a group of 90-odd species found in coral reefs, seagrass beds, and rocky areas around the world, with the ...
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Breakthrough study shows coral reefs will transform but can persist, if carbon is curbed
In a breakthrough study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have shown that, ...
BBC24d
The secret of the world's richest underwater habitat
My colleagues and I wondered: why? What caused the diversity?" Individual corals, known as polyps, are spineless little marine animals measuring only a few millimetres, and are related to ...
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Coral reefs may be more resilient than we thought
The study shows that coral reefs have the potential to adapt and survive in changing climates if carbon emissions are reduced ...
Half Of All Coral Reefs Are Dead. A Maui ‘Super Reef’ Offers Hope
Olowalu reef may offer hope of surviving climate change, just four miles from the Maui fire epicenter. Learn about ...
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The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from extreme ocean heat as corals bleach across the Caribbean
During the day, these algae photosynthesize, producing both food and oxygen for the coral animal. At night, coral polyps feed on plankton, providing nutrients for their algae. The result of this ...
Science Daily7d
Algae research provides insight on immune health
Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...
Phys.org18d
The life-and-death struggle of coral reefs
As Linsley explains, there are some 6,000 known species of coral, each made up of colonies of tiny tentacled creatures called polyps, whose often vivid hues come from symbiotic algae that help the ...
Inside Climate News27d
Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future
Credit: Visit Turks and Caicos Islands One by one, Perry-Garnette target fed each coral colony made of hundreds or thousands of individual animals called polyps, squirting the nutritious slurry ...
Barron's24d
Global Coral Bleaching Event Biggest On Record: US Agency
Coral are marine invertebrates made up of individual animals called polyps which have a symbiotic relationship with the algae that live inside their tissue. The EU's Copernicus climate monitor ...
Indiatimes16d
Coral bleaching: Nature’s distress signal and what we can do about it
Samreen Farooqui is a filmmaker and a diver who has been diving in the Andaman Sea for many years. She is the Creative Head for Video at Roundglass Sustain, which has recently created five short ...