New research out of Southern Cross University has found previously undocumented variation in coral heat tolerance on the ...

In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.

Hotter conditions prevent two tiny organisms working together for mutual benefit, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists studied a single-celled organism (Paramecium bursaria) which can ...

New research out of Southern Cross University has found previously undocumented variation in coral heat tolerance on ...

Yet there were also signs of SCTLD everywhere. Reefs get their signature bright coloring from a symbiotic algae that lives inside the live coral tissue. The sickened colonies, though, had big ...

Higher than normal water temperatures cause coral to evict their symbiotic algae, which affects how much energy they can create. Removal of algae also turns corals white, a phenomenon commonly ...

Researchers at Yale are looking at an unexpected source of inspiration to enhance solar panel efficiency: the giant clams ...

gain extra sources of energy from sugar-synthesizing symbiotic algae. Within groups of species that make a living in a similar way, species compete for the same resources. These resources ...

Coral polyps, the reef's building blocks, are tiny colonial animals that house symbiotic algae in their cells. As those algae photosynthesize—using light to create energy—each polyp is fueled ...

This can happen when corals are stressed so much by warm sea temperatures that they expel the symbiotic algae living with them, causing them to turn ghostly white. Although bleached corals can ...

Yet there were also signs of SCTLD everywhere. Reefs get their signature bright coloring from a symbiotic algae that lives inside the live coral tissue. The sickened colonies, though, had big ...

They keep the anemones free of parasites and provide them with nutrients through their faeces, which may also stimulate the growth-beneficial symbiotic algae within the anemone. Clownfish may also ...