Coral reefs

Freshwater snails and reef-building corals are among the threatened groups

"Pumice rafting" colonizes large swaths of the damaged reef instantaneously with organisms hitching a ride on trillions of pieces of floating rock

Data from remote coral reefs in the central Pacific suggest that, although many corals are harmed by heat, certain kinds can adapt to warmer water

Ramming behavior among male bump-head parrot fish, which occurs during competition for females, has been observed by humans for the first time

Whereas global warming devastates most coral, it also is predicted to bring a stronger deep equatorial undercurrent that could create a bit of habitat alongside islands

Many nations are part of an effort to account for the economic goods provided for free by nature--but not the U.S.

Scientists are struggling to raise tropical fish on farms so that fishers who now poison coral reefs to catch them will no longer be needed

The effects of climate change, such as coral bleaching, become slow-motion disasters, with knock-on effects for years

A microbiologist is harnessing beneficial bacteria to help coral reefs weather pollution, overfishing and climate change

A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, overriding any effects of "acidification"

A growing group of scientists is attempting to save coral reefs by cultivating them

Snails may be spreading human intestinal bacteria among corals