Assistant Professor of Physics Asja Radja’s research, including a new flow tank, could help solve the problem of coral reef ...

A QUT researcher has observed a rare ocean phenomenon off the coast of Timor-Leste revealing a surprising ally in the fight ...

New research from Simon Brandl at The University of Texas at Austin challenges a long-held belief about coral reefs.

The Coral Biofactory Project, based at Porto de Galinhas Beach in Pernambuco state, combines ecotourism with efforts to ...

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which feed on coral waste and carbon dioxide and provide the coral oxygen and organic products of photosynthesis. Coral bleaching occurs when a large temperature change prompts the coral polyps to ...

Deep underneath the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean lies a dazzling landscape of undulating coral reefs colored by photosynthetic algae, from which corals get their energy. But in the early 1980s ...

Through photosynthesis, these algae (called zooxanthellae) transform sunlight into oxygen and produce nutrients such as glucose and amino acids for the polyp, which provides shelter for the algae in ...

Warming waters have not been kind to coral reefs. Heat causes corals to release the photosynthetic algae that live within and help feed the reefbuilding creatures—a phenomenon called bleaching ...