An international expedition including University of Sydney researchers has pieced together the clearest picture yet of how ...

Global plans to drill and expand fossil fuel projects overlap with marine protected areas and important fishing grounds, a ...

University of Miami researchers and collaborators have expanded an offshore reef restoration and coastal resilience project ...

Scientists have identified nearly 166,000 sq km (64,000 sq miles) of coral reefs that are capable of surviving and recovering ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On the island of Moorea, in French Polynesia, deep green volcanic mountains slope from high peaks down towards the sea. But they don’t stop at the ...

Scuba divers may be beating up coral reefs more than they think. Video analyses of divers show that more than 80 percent of damaging physical contact with the reef is unintended or simply unnoticed, ...

In a devastated section of the Coral Triangle in the Pacific Ocean, a conservation group is trying to build an artificial reef. Robin Philippo, the managing director of the Tropical Research and ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species supports its own specialized microbial partners, many of which have never ...

What if, rather than coral reef rehabilitation remaining a tedious and difficult manual process, conservationists could harness robotics, artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles to transform ...

Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem. This reef system ...

Abstract: Satellite-derived bathymetry technology plays a pivotal role in estimating shallow water depths. Although traditional machine learning (ML) models are extensively applied in water depth ...

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