But coral researchers face a mammoth problem: They don't know precisely where all of Earth's reefs even are, and only a small fraction ... The team's audacious mapping plan starts with Planet ...

Taryn Foster is a coral scientist based in Western Australia and chief executive of Coral Maker, which produces small ... the sea floor. According to Montoya-Maya, the corals are "reef-ready ...

A combination of AI, a wild 1970s plan to build underwater cities ... are collaborating on regenerating the ocean floor. “Coral reefs are endangered by climate change, shipping, development ...

These were scooped up for delivery to other restoration and research facilities, where they represent hope for the future of coral reefs in Florida ... complete with small fish that provide ...

Historically, Ningaloo Reef has ... of the bay’s floor had been covered by coral. By 2022, that number dropped to just over one percent. During the same period, turf algae—small, fast-growing ...

Ocean temperatures have been extremely hot this summer, wreaking havoc on some of the world's highly vulnerable coral reefs ... focusing on an emergency plan: collecting coral specimens and ...

Ashraf said the team already has installed small cylinders and cubes of the ... Some experts anticipate coral reefs to be extinct by the end of this century. Coral reefs play a vital role in ...

Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor, but have out-sized benefits ... Scientists are therefore trying to plan for the future by bringing coral larvae into cryopreservation ...

It’s called drift snorkeling, and the water’s guiding them over Ningaloo, one of the world’s longest near-shore reefs, revealing coral that’s as white as the sand on the sea floor ...