After that window, sound had little effect. Coral reefs support more than a quarter of all marine animals, protect coastlines from strong waves and storms, and provide food and tourism ...

Teeming with life, a healthy coral reef is one of the noisiest places in the ocean. Recorded using underwater microphones, this cacophony can sound to our ears remarkably like frying bacon. Listen for ...

Aran Mooney, a marine biologist at WHOI, describes the sounds made by a healthy coral reef. "So there's a lot of fish ...

SurfPerch also monitors coral reefs, crucial marine ecosystems that ... species and more on a reef’s “soundscape” – sounds produced collectively by all of the species living on it.

Researchers have found that playing the sounds of happy corals through underwater speakers could allow degrading coral reefs to regain lost vitality. A team of scientists played recordings of ...

Now, researchers have shown that broadcasting the sounds of healthy reefs is a way to encourage larval corals to repopulate ...

“Bioacoustics is the study of sounds produced by living organisms. Listening to a coral reef is like listening to an orchestra of biological sound – fish produce popping, whooping and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A first of its kind assessment of coral reefs in U.S. waters is again sounding the alarm over the continued decline of these sensitive underwater ecosystems, which scientists ...