Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Infected sea urchin on Reunion Island. Photo credit: Jean-Pascal Quod.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands, it is ...

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the region’s coral trout fishery catch. The Great Barrier Reef is protected ...

Sea urchins play a crucial role as 'gardeners' of the reefs, preventing the proliferation of algae that could smother corals. A similar disease had already decimated sea urchin populations in the ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

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With sea urchin populations collapsing at unprecedented rates, the research community is urgently working to understand the mechanisms behind the outbreak and explore possible mitigation strategies.

and the region shifted from a coral reef ecosystem to an algae-dominated one. Even 40 years later, the sea urchin population—and consequently the reef—has not recovered." In 2022, the disease ...

Jennifer Mallon receives funding from US-UK Fulbright Commission, Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, University of Glasgow Early Career Mobility Award and the Link Foundation. Adrian ...

Along with University of Sydney scientists he tracked the health of 462 coral colonies near One Tree Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef during a heatwave. "The 2023- 2024 marine heatwave was ...