To date, many different methods of re-growing coral fragments have been trialled around the world, with localized pockets of success. However, in 2011, a unique set of players came together to ...

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

These three-foot-wide, star-shaped steel structures coated with sand and tied with coral fragments are embedded into the rubble field and connected together to form a stable platform on which ...

Coral spawning lasts mere minutes and occurs just once annually per colony, forcing the team to conduct hundreds of night ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Yu and her professor David Baker, a marine biologist, first came up with the idea of attaching coral fragments to metal grids and concrete blocks, then placing them underwater near other coral to see ...

Biogenic sand is made up of bits of once-living organisms. Coral fragments are one contributor but foraminifera, mollusc shells and sea urchin spines are also common in biogenic sand. Beaches made of ...

The coral fragment from the seafloor off the coast of the resort Siyam World Maldives in the Noonu Atoll had a stark contrast ...

The new facility, Coral ReefStoration Centre, is nurturing more than 120 rescued local coral fragments, which will be deployed on Middle Island in Deep Water Bay. There, the project aims to ...

Local 10′s quest to find this year’s Eco Hero continues this week, as we introduce you each day to one of our top five ...