Coral Reefs

Latest about coral reefs

Great barrier reef corals and fishes.

Can You Put a Price on the Great Barrier Reef? Economists Just Did

By Stephanie Pappas published

The Great Barrier Reef brings real dollars to Australia.

Climate Change
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Lip-Smacking Good! How 'Mushroom-Lipped' Fish Score Hard-to-Get Meals

By Mindy Weisberger published

For a reef fish species, sloppy, slimy lip dribbles serve as a vital defense against its coral prey's venomous stings.

Fish
A bleached coral stands starkly in Australia's Mission Beach Reefs, part of the Great Barrier Reef system.

Great Barrier Reef Again Hit by Severe Coral Bleaching

By Stephanie Pappas published

Two-thirds of the length of the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from bleaching, a condition likely to cause mass coral die-offs.

Climate Change
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Newfound 'Spider-Man' Snail Is an Expert Web Slinger

By Mindy Weisberger published

A new species of colorful marine snail slings webs like Spider-Man and is "kind of cute."

Snails
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Global Warming Is Killing the Great Barrier Reef

By Kacey Deamer published

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered "off the chart" damage.

Climate Change
Hawaii's "Big Island" viewed from high-altitude aircraft.

Snapshot of Hawaii: Why NASA Is Studying Islands' Volcanoes & Reefs

By Karen Rowan published

Hawaii's ecosystems are under scientific scrutiny this month.

Volcanos
Twilight Coral Reef

In Photos: Diving in a Twilight Coral Reef

By Stephanie Pappas published

Diving deep in the Red Sea, researchers discover a dim, blue world.

Animals
Divers explore a coral wall in this dim, blue world called the mesophotic zone.

Coral 'Twilight Zone' Reveals New Type of Photosynthesis

By Stephanie Pappas published

Low-light algae living in coral have evolved a never-before-seen way to capture energy.

Plants
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Surprise! Another Massive Reef Is Hiding Behind the Great Barrier Reef

By Kacey Deamer published

The 2,300-square-mile reef was hiding in plain sight.

Planet Earth
The mushroom coral <em>Heliofungia actiniformis</em> belches its symbiotic algal cells (green plume) when the water heats up.

Creep Show: Video Captures the Violent Act of Coral Bleaching

By Jeanna Bryner published

A blob of a coral has been caught violently pulsating, with tentacles wriggling every which way, as it ejects its algal residents in a time-lapse video of the phenomenon called bleaching.

Animals
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