What is the “trapping zone” and what lives in this newly described underwater ecosystem? Find out!
Have you heard of trees that create billions of baby fish and crabs, help protect people on islands from the monster waves of tropical storms, and stand on stilts above the ocean?
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Project Taramea trains young Māori divers in the Cook Islands to remove crown-of-thorns starfish that eat corals.
Scientists discover 3 new sun coral species in the waters around Hong Kong.
It is World Oceans Day on June 8. Learn about the ocean!
What do you know about coral and coral reefs? Challenge yourself to this coral reef quiz!
Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. Image courtesy of Andrés Felipe Suárez-Castro. Coral reefs around the world are facing many conservation challenges. Approximately half of the world’s coral reefs have experienced decline of coral since the 1990s. One of the problems…
How can you help fish and give old buses a new life at the same time? In Sri Lanka, an island country in the Indian Ocean, government agencies have a plan to do just that. The Sri Lankan Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and…
Oceans cover about 70% of our planet. And
roughly 80% of life on Earth depends on oceans and coasts.
The world’s coral reefs are in trouble. We explore some solutions.