Warm-water coral reefs ... miles of ocean a milky hue. Many species of planktonic forami­nifera—also one-celled—are calcifiers; their dead shells drift down to the ocean floor in what's ...

As record ocean heat threatens corals off Florida and across the globe, conservationists are shifting their strategy Share Comment Add to your saved stories Save Warning: This graphic requires ...

This relationship between the zooxanthellae and the coral polyps is an excellent example of a mutually beneficial relationship, also known as symbiosis. Although they occupy less than 0.1% of the ...

In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, floating brown eggs from a tank of deep-sea coral. She sticks ... oil from its ...

A team of marine biologists had done everything they could to set the stage for something akin to a romantic evening for a tank full of coral ... as oases on the ocean floor is their relationship ...

She lives in a second-floor ... flowers made from coconut husks and dried pandanus leaves. I asked Roselinta what she liked so much about this place. Her answer surprised me. It's far from the ...

Seagrasses, which are plants adapted to live in the sea, are different from kelp and other algae in that they have roots, veins, leaves — and even flowers and fruits. Seagrass meadows serve as ...

There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history ... adding that “99.9% of all the reef areas in the Atlantic Ocean — the North and South Atlantic — experienced thermal ...

We know more about the surface of the moon than about the ocean floor. Scientists estimate that 91 percent of ... And all that heat absorption comes at a cost: life in the ocean, especially coral, is ...

are rapidly degrading coral reefs. While reefs occupy less than 1 percent of the ocean floor, they are home to more than 25 percent of marine life. They also provide a host of essential resources ...

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The massive 2010 oil spill damaged or killed coral in the Gulf of Mexico ... injured 17 and spewed oil from its wellhead on the ocean floor for four months before being capped.