Researchers looking at coral threats
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Even coral reefs thought to be pristine are facing challenges, researchers said Thursday launching the International Year of the Reef. The year of the reef is a "campaign to highlight the importance of coral reef ecosystems and to motivate people to protect them," Conrad Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said at a briefing.
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By Elizabeth John  CORAL reefs contribute to the annual fish catch that provides food for about one billion people in Asia alone but nowhere are they most at risk than in this same region.
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The tsunami split coral reefs in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands chain, burying them under sand deposits and threatening the entire marine habitat in the area, researchers said Wednesday.
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Hawaiian scientists provide hard evidence to support the theory that sharks navigate with a biological compass.
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The tsunami which killed hundreds of people in southern Thailand may also have killed the coral reefs which attract large numbers of foreign tourists, a Thai marine scientist was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
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As U.S., Australian navies prepare for exercises, scientists worry that sonar use can injure, even kill, whales.
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About 70 percent of the world's coral reefs have been wrecked or are at risk from human activities but some are showing surprising resilience to global warming, a report said on Monday.
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Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third because of increased ocean warming, according to a new Australian study which contradicts the long-held belief that global warming is destroying the reefs.
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Even though nearly two thirds of coral reefs are now officially endangered, some are bouncing back despite warmer oceans and pollution, giving hope the marine marvels are not completely doomed, scientists said on Friday.
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Scientists say reefs off New Guinea are one of the richest marine nurseries in the world with species that include a walking shark and a color-changing wrasse.
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Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday.
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A University of Alabama scientist and other researchers have found coral growing at extreme depths in the Gulf of Mexico &#151; on several ships sunk during World War II by Nazi submarines.
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By Anonymous  Size and shape may predict the survival of coral reefs around the world when the weather churns the oceans in the years to come, according to a new model that relies on engineering principles.
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Guardians of two of the world's most popular coral reefs joined forces on Thursday to protect their fragile charges from the ravages of water pollution, coral disease and people.
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Marine researchers are hoping to prevent tides of destructive algae from killing fish and fouling beaches through early detection of the microscopic organisms.
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By Anonymous  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment will now provide public access to new digital photographs from six years of coral reef field studies.
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The latest tracking research from UK scientists may prove vital in protecting the endangered albatross.