For decades, scientists have used the amount of seaweed at the ocean's surface as a proxy for the health of coral reefs below. However, a new global study of more than 1,200 marine locations over a 16 ...

A University of Hawaii at Manoa study has found that native sea urchins can successfully reduce the invasive, reef-smothering macroalgae by 85 percent on a coral reef at Kaneohe Bay on Oahu. Chris ...

Tropical Marine Ecosystems (TME) represent some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. Images of colourful coral reefs, lush seagrass meadows and mangrove forests, and of course the open ocean ...

Nature’s treasure chests, coral reefs, encircled by bright majestic fish are succumbing to the disastrous effects of climate change. Increasingly warmer and more acidic oceans, reaching temperature ...

Dissolved organic materials (DOM) exuded by Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus sp. were collected in situ by minimally disruptive techniques. Exposed macroalgae released relatively large amounts of DOM ...

For decades, scientists have looked to seaweed as an indicator of the health of coral reefs lying underneath. But what if the seaweed was misleading them? New UBC research reveals it was, and ...