Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean ... ensuring improved water conditions before restoration efforts." Coral reefs provide essential ecosystem services, including coastal protection ...

26, 2025 — Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean ... with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of ...

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans are threatening the already endangered coral reefs with disease, a new study has warned. More than 11 billion plastics are currently putting coral reefs ...

Coral diseases, particularly in the Caribbean ... ensuring improved water conditions before restoration efforts." Coral reefs provide essential ecosystem services, including coastal protection ...

and cause diseases that can wipe out an entire coral colony. This is why the world’s coral reefs need help. Global action to end the burning of fossil fuels and to maintain the forests that help ...

Coral reefs perform many important functions ... for new corals to establish themselves and build reef structures. When disease or bleaching kills corals on a reef, other fast-growing organisms ...

This heat streak has lasted more than a year: NOAA and the International Coral Reef Initiative just confirmed ... and they were more susceptible to diseases. Instead, they prioritized staghorn ...

The "coral defenders" are made of plastic called PHA. Similar to a potato starch, it naturally breaks down when exposed, especially to salt water.

We loaded the boat and headed out to a coral reef near Summerland Key ... the site was hit hard by the deadly stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) outbreak, and we did not witness any spawning ...

Over the course of four years, Miami native Michael Zimmer spent dozens of hours underwater filming a team of scientists as they meticulously removed samples of healthy corals from the reefs ...

Stephanie Rosales (left) and Ana Palacio, lead author of the study (right), evaluating diseased corals Coral diseases and water quality play a key role for coral restoration and survival efforts ...