Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

It lives throughout the sunlit layer of tropical oceans and, while it doesn’t necessarily play a key role in coral biology, its abundance is a sign of a healthy coral reef ecosystem.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is what a healthy coral reef sounds like. (SOUNDBITE OF CORAL REEF CRACKLING) INSKEEP: Nadege Aoki studies the bioacoustics of coral reefs at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

With the Smithsonian’s 3D technology, you can virtually dive into a healthy coral reef and compare what that same reef might look like when bleached. The difference can be shocking. For something a ...

A team of scientists from the UK and Australia teamed up to use underwater loudspeakers to try and entice fish back to dead coral reefs and potentially help them recover. By replicating the sounds ...

Elkhorn coral babies, affectionately called “Flonduran” corals by researchers at the Rosenstiel School at the University of ...

In some places, up to 97% of wave energy can be dissipated by healthy coral reefs — energy that would otherwise be hitting the coastline. Keep up with Tampa Bay’s top headlines.

Without healthy coral reefs, the islands wouldn’t even exist. “If you go to a local island, you’ll see a lot of the houses are built very close to the ocean, right next to the beach,” said ...

“People need healthy coral reefs,” said Mike Heithaus, co-author of the study and executive dean of FIU’s College of Arts, Sciences & Education.

Scientists working off the U.S. Virgin Islands found that the sounds of a healthy coral reef, played on underwater speakers, could encourage a degraded reef to regenerate.