Microplastics have been found buried inside coral skeletons. A stock image shows microplastics, with coral in the inset. Microplastics have been found buried inside coral skeletons. ISTOCK / GETTY ...

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Up to about 20,000 metric tons of tiny fragments called microplastics may be stored in coral skeletons worldwide every year, says ecologist Jessica Reichert of Justus Liebig University Giessen in ...

To correct an editing error, this story's headline was updated on Sept. 23, 2021, to note that the 3D-printed structures are meant to mimic coral skeletons, not coral exoskeletons.

The acidification of the oceans is recorded in the crystals of the coral skeleton. This is a new tool for studying past environmental changes and combating climate change. Such is the main ...

Stony corals are marine invertebrates that build large skeletons, which form the basis of reef ecosystems. These biodiversity hotspots are home to about a quarter of known marine species.

An international team of scientists, led by physicists from the University of York, has shed important new light on coral skeleton formation. Their investigations, carried out at the nanoscale ...