This photo demonstrates several colonies of Montipora sp coral located in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, that are being overgrown and smothered by the alien invasive algae Gorilla Ogo (Gracilaria salicornia), and ...

Samples of CP and BBD lesions were collected from five tagged colonies of Montipora hispida adjacent to the monitoring plots at depths of 2.5–3.0 m between August 2007 and February 2008. For bacterial ...

Coral and algae don’t get along. On reefs, algae compete with coral, reducing coral growth and survival. Scientists suspect that the algae may also promote harmful bacteria or coral-eating species, ...

As you swim or paddle over a reef and peer down at a colorful coral, you may find yourself wondering: What is that? Oceangoers determined to identify what they are seeing underwater can simplify their ...

It's no secret that the world's corals are in trouble but right now in the waters around Hawaii, it's some of the rarest corals on Earth that are getting hammered. In recent weeks warming ocean ...

On the coral reef, knowing who's your friend and who's your enemy can sometimes be a little complicated. Take seaweed, for instance. Normally it's the enemy of coral, secreting toxic chemicals, ...

An epizootic - the wildlife equivalent of a human epidemic - of black band disease has appeared in the Great Barrier Reef, say Australian researchers. Scientists, who have been monitoring the progress ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding why some corals can weather climate change better than others, and the secret could be in a specific protein that produces a natural sunscreen.

Experts documented the substantial recovery of coral reefs around the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific after the area was hit by a large-scale coral bleaching event in 2015 and 2016. Many ...