From a ballet of white-tip reef sharks to a cardinal fish releasing freshly hatched babies from its mouth, these underwater ...

Ocean ecosystems ... other forms of sea life interact sheds light on Earth’s carbon cycle. Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals ...

when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only underwater — marks where the ocean once ...

But how exactly does ocean ... 'Marine Prosperity Areas' Represent ... developed a novel tool designed to protect and conserve coral reefs by providing them with an abundance of feeding ...

Within the structure of the coral reefs, members of almost every phyla of plants and animals live and ... cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed ...

Coral reefs are often described as underwater rainforests. -- Maui Ocean ... of the sea. Like tropical rainforests, coral reefs provide life and habitats for an array of plants and animals.

Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening phenomenon that's making seawater ...

Often referred to as “rainforests of the sea,” coral reefs are perhaps the greatest, most vibrant expressions of ocean life. Yet due to global warming, already-delicate coral reefs throughout the ...

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which ...

causing more sea-level rise and reducing the salinity of the ocean, respectively. Greater concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also mean that more of it dissolves in the ocean, leading ...

From coral bleaching to sea level rise, entire marine ecosystems are rapidly changing. Global warming is causing alterations in ocean chemistry and many oceanic processes, and it is threatening ...