Researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming.
Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.
Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...
A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank ...
The large sunfish arrived at the aquarium in February 2024 from the southern coast of Kochi in the Pacific Ocean. The sunfish, a member of the blowfish family known for its unique shape and big ...
An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish, who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...
The research team meticulously tracked the health of 462 coral colonies at the University of Sydney's Great Barrier Reef research station at One Tree Island over a period of 161 days. The results ...
This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ailing. Almost as soon as the ...