Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine pollution. It lives throughout the sunlit layer of tropical oceans and, ...

INSKEEP: Nadege Aoki studies the bioacoustics of coral reefs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. NADEGE AOKI: They support close to a quarter of all marine species. And that also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coral reefs perform many important functions, such as buffering coastlines and providing habitat for one-fourth of all marine ...

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Purring fish and snapping shrimp. Croaks and pulses from a chorus of fish. Those are some of the noises that make up the soundscape of a healthy coral reef. Local scientists at Woods Hole ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A healthy coral reef in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Reefs like this provide islands with protection from storms and erosion and are a ...

Forty-foot waves along O‘ahu North Shore this week! Another home falls into the sea. I can just visualize the headlines in all of the newspapers, but this does not need to happen to our coastal homes ...

Planting new coral in degraded reefs can lead to rapid recovery – with restored reefs growing as fast as healthy reefs after just four years, new research shows. Reefs worldwide are severely ...

Healthy coral reefs have rich soundscapes, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp. Larval coral uses these sounds as cues to identify the best ...

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 ...