For years, experts have warned about the destruction of coral reefs due to global warming and the acidification of our oceans. But in a time when bleached and sometimes dying reefs are becoming all ...

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Scientists have discovered for the first time that invasive rats on tropical islands are affecting the territorial behaviour of fish on surrounding coral reefs. The new study, led by scientists from ...

The seaweed that often takes over reefs may at least help the food systems that count on the reef to keep functioning. The Seychelles islands, which contain 1,700 square kilometers of reefs, have been ...

The James Cook University study examined the ability of the spiny chromis fish, found in the central Great Barrier Reef, to acclimatise to water at 1.5C and 3C higher than current ocean temperatures.

Scientists have discovered what they say is the oldest tropical reef fish recorded anywhere in the world -- an 81-year-old midnight snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia. Scientists have ...