A bit of a duality was discovered when researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Bangor in the UK studied light pollution around coastal settlements. What they found was that light pollution from human coastal settlements can effect change in the ecological flow...
Thats right folks the infamous Caribbean species has made its way all the down the coast to Brazilian waters. A single lionfish was speared off the coast and a team of researchers including scientists from the California Academy of Sciences confirmed species...
Technology is ever-present in the lab as well as the hobby of reef keeping but scientists from Europe are now going to be taking their instruments directly into the field, or reef I should say. To better understand coral metabolism and respiration researchers from...
Coral CoE is at it again trying to understand how human impact can effect change on coral reefs around the globe. Studying marine reserves in and around the Great Barrier Reef scientists "surveyed more than 80,000 corals around the Whitsunday Islands for six different...
Researchers from the University of Miami are perfectly placed to collect their recent findings supporting the need for human intervention when it comes to climate change and coral reefs. “For many years we have known that some types of symbiotic algae can convey...
It's long been a theory of mine that corals exchange zooxanthellae within our aquariums to combat environmental stressors, and a new study proves this theory to be true in controlled systems as well as in the wild. The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of...
A new study led by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) has presented evidence stating coral reefs may not be as susceptible to ocean-acidification as once was thought. Examining coral reefs from the naturally acidic waters of Palau...
By Matthew Stansbery This just in: The most interesting and attractive specimens in this hobby are neither hard to find nor hard to keep! Often glanced over by seasoned aquarists, mushroom corals (or umbrella corals) are captivating to the eye as well as extremely...
For the first time ever researchers from Scotland and Germany have documented fusion of coral skeletons in cold water coral known as Lophelia pertusa. "Normally it is very hard to see where one coral ends and another begins. But on our dives with JAGO, we were able to...
An international team led by the James Cook University CoralCoE has provided some promising news for corals dealing with rising levels of acidification. "Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome," adds lead author Dr...