West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

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.

PETALING JAYA: Over half of the coral reefs in Malaysian waters have been affected by coral bleaching between April and June due to increased sea surface temperatures. The Fisheries Department ...

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 ...