An increasingly common way to keep tabs on coral reef health is by measuring microorganisms in the local seawater. Microbial-based coral reef monitoring is excellent at detecting nutrient and health ...

Researchers in the Dominican Republic are using video to survey sharks and rays (elasmobranchs), which play a vital role in the health of coral reefs. In 2023, over 90% of the corals in reefs ...

Over 1,300 destructive crown-of-thorns starfish (COTs) were removed from coral reefs around Tabawan and Adal Islands in ...

Near the close of the 1960s, a squadron of young scuba divers headed out into the warm waters of the South Pacific, tanks of air strapped to their backs and syringes at the ready. Their mission, one ...