Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs of human pollution. “While we were there, we witnessed the very ...
For decades only a single atoll, Diego Garcia, has had any inhabitants. Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs ...
The submerged submarine and artificial reef now delight scuba divers with its swim throughs and sea life, including shrimp, eels, barracuda, turtles and ... Stingray City, Coral Garden (913 ...
Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.
Some northern parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered their biggest annual decline in coral cover in the 39 years of a long-running marine monitoring program. The preliminary report from the ...
Although new homes are desperately needed on an island with a severe housing crunch, the construction boom bodes poorly for the reef. Its calcium carbonate structure, built from coral polyp skeletons, ...
Green reef crabs can be found in the western Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea inhabiting coral reef communities and rocky areas. The green reef crab has eight hairy, brown legs and two ...
It's the world's largest collection of coral reefs, spanning more than 1,430 miles ... that live inside and nourish them. When sea surface temperatures rise, corals expel the colourful algae.