The city of Hollywood and the nonprofit Ocean Rescue Alliance International have teamed up to deploy a snorkel-friendly ...

Coral reefs are vital to marine biodiversity, but their livelihood is under threat due to climate instability and the impacts ...

Volusia County’s Marine Science Center will reopen on June 24, after a nine-month, $4.2 million renovation that began in 2024 ...

This is partly due to them providing a hard surface for invertebrates like sponges and corals to grow on. Artificial reefs also offer a complex habitat of crevices, tunnels and other hiding places ...

Off the coast of North Miami Beach, he leads an underwater experiment that combines natural corals with an artificial structure – creating a hybrid reef that he hopes will mimic the effects of a ...

A new snorkeler-friendly artificial reef has splashed down off ... Each one contains Coral Loks, which are screw-like devices that allow divers to plant lab grown coral into the reef.

It turns out that corals tend to recover more quickly on artificial structures. Typically when scientists study the phenomenon, they spend up to 10 years collecting field data.

Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared cameras. Artificial light can ...

New research shows artificial light can upend underwater communities around coral reefs just like they do on land. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 30, 2024.) Night on planet Earth is ...