In Florida, swaths of coral paint a colorful landscape across the ocean floor and serve a key ... city to more than 7,000 other marine plants and animals, survived prehistoric mass extinctions ...

Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources ... with ripple effects throughout the ocean's food web. Two important planetary ecosystems, ...

A new Community-Based Coral Restoration Area (CBCRA), established in South Maui, is offering damaged corals a chance to recover from rising ocean temperatures, sediment pollution and human activity.

Corals are animals, but many are powered by the tiny photosythetic algal plants within ... as the entire Atlantic Ocean. All the planet's richest reefs lie within the "Coral Triangle" – a ...

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Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and die, adding particles and organic material to the sediment, and contributing to the efficient ...