A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature highlights the dimensions of modern coral reef degradation, according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Boston College's ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations recover could boost sustainable fish yields by nearly 50%, creating millions of ...

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Scientists were shocked to find that the Houtman Abrolhos Islands’ coral reefs survived a prolonged extreme heatwave in 2025 virtually unharmed, which may reveal how to protect corals elsewhere ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...

A groundbreaking study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as sharks declined by 75% and fish preferred by humans became ...