In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...

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Maritime experts told AFP about the massing of Chinese fishing boats on Dec 25, about 300km north-east of Taiwan. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida may be imperiled by plans to widen the shipping channel leading ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...

Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological ...