In a race against time, scientists are exploring new ways to restore natural systems. Alongside traditional methods such as planting trees, reducing pollution and reintroducing native species, a ...

'We are enhancing the dune systems and providing a better habitat for native wildlife and pollinators,' Lindsey Roland Nieratka says BOCA RATON, Fla. — Boca Raton is working to improve the ...

Coral bleaching refers to the process by which coral lose their bright, vibrant colors and turn white. This happens when coral get stressed and “expel” the microscopic bacteria that live on them and ...

A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System (DGS) scans the seafloor and determines the best place for a coral to spawn.

Here’s a little good news for the day: certain areas of the Great Barrier Reef have the highest amount of coral coverage seen in the reef in the last 36 years. The effects of climate changes have been ...

When classmates Brant Chlebowski and Nina Rosen were students in the Master of Advanced Studies degree in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), ...

The initiative, led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and collaborators in the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP), aims to scale up the placement of young corals by ...

That Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble is no longer subject to debate, but the best way to deal with the problem very much is. An all-out assault on coral predators, giant fans to ...

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, studying the effects of waves and currents in the formation of a coral reef doesn’t require getting wet. A new garden in front of the Eckart Building mimics a ...

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with about one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter at some point in their lifecycle.

We compared the native bees visiting the flowers of three species of invasive plants, saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) and white and yellow sweet clover (Melilotus albus, M. officinalis), with those visiting ...