Coral reefs trap microplastics due to their mucus. Researchers confirmed that coral mucus acts as an adhesive.

A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

New study reveals that coral reefs in the Gulf of Eilat experienced a surprising 3,000-year "shutdown" in growth, from about 4,400 to 1,000 years ago ...

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans are threatening the already endangered coral reefs with disease ... four to 89 per cent when corals came into contact with plastic.

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of ...

Between 2009 and 2018, the world lost 14% of its coral reefs, and 90% of those that remain are at risk from climate change, pollution, overfishing and anthropogenic threats. The 2024 U.N ...

Now, to keep Florida’s reef alive, scientists have to breed corals almost entirely in labs on land, where the water is clean ...

The Great Barrier Reef ... Pollution and Run-off: Poor water quality from land-based sources, including sediment run-off, agricultural chemicals, and pollutants, severely impacts coral health.

Marine scientists from the University of Sydney yesterday have published the first peer-reviewed study documenting “catastrophic” coral bleaching events at the southern Great Barrier Reef in ...