coral

Ocean acidification causes US$1trn of damage a year

Posted in Science on 9th Oct, 2014
by Alex Muller

Some 400 million people depend on threatened coral reefs for their livelihoods, British scientists warn at UN meeting.

Caribbean coral reefs 'could vanish in 20 years'

Posted in Science on 2nd Jul, 2014
by Alex Muller

Healthy coral reefs have declined by about 50% in the past 40 years.

Coral reefs are better at coping with rising sea temperatures than we thought

Posted in Science on 31st May, 2014
by Alex Muller

It was found that certain types of coral are able to adapt to tolerate higher sea temperatures by changing the genes they express.