The fossilized stays of historic deep-sea corals might act as time machines offering new insights into the impact the ocean has on rising CO2 ranges.

Engineers have constructed a squid-like robotic that may swim untethered, propelling itself by producing jets of water. The robotic carries its personal energy supply inside its physique. It could actually additionally carry a sensor, akin to a digicam, for underwater exploration.

Coral Gardens Reef in Belize stays a refuge for Acropora spp. coral regardless of widespread devastation in different areas of the western North Atlantic/Caribbean, based on a brand new examine.

Vitamins can irritate the already detrimental results of local weather change on corals to set off mass coral bleaching. A examine suggests ecosystem managers can cut back the impacts of coral bleaching by implementing methods to scale back nutrient stress in areas topic to thermal stress.

When stony corals have their famend mass spawning occasions, in sync with the moon's cycle, colonies concurrently launch an underwater 'cloud' of sperm and eggs for fertilization. However how do the sperm and eggs survive a number of hours as plankton, given threats from predators, microbes and stresses similar to ...

Coral dying is impacting oceans worldwide as a consequence of local weather change. The priority is that corals can't preserve tempo with the speed of ocean warming. Specifically, as a result of a temperature improve of just one diploma Celsius could make the distinction between wholesome and dying coral reefs. ...

Scientists working remotely with Schmidt Ocean Institute, one of many solely at-sea science expeditions to proceed working in the course of the international pandemic, have accomplished a primary have a look at deep waters within the Coral Sea by no means earlier than seen.

Fossil knowledge, historic information, and underwater survey knowledge have been used to reconstruct the abundance of staghorn and elkhorn corals over the previous 125,000 years. Researchers present that these corals first started declining within the 1950s and 1960s, sooner than beforehand thought.

Selective fishing can disrupt the fragile steadiness maintained between corals and algae in embattled Caribbean coral reefs.

Researchers used 120,000-year-old fossils to foretell how Gulf of Mexico coral reefs will reply to local weather change towards the tip of this century.