Endangered coral reefs could be saved by a special ink, according to new research. The bio-ink, called SNAP-X, was engineered by American scientists to help promote coral larvae settlement and ...

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Hawai‘i is geologically special. Located over an active volcanic ... core collected from a well-preserved fossilized massive Porites coral. Credit: Jody Webster Sailing aboard the MMA Valour ...

The pair say they were struck by the degree of bleaching in gigantic boulder-like bommies, or reef outcrops, comprised of a stony coral called porites. "We went inside, swam [through the] nooks ...

Here, healthy heads of lobe coral, Porites lobata, are surrounded by bleached rice coral, Montipora capitata, weakened by a marine heat wave. Rice coral is common around Hawaii and in the waters ...

A research diver encounters Porites evermanni coral in Hawai’i. Image courtesy of Keoki Stender. The new paper acknowledges that even if the world agrees to reduce carbon emissions, temperatures ...

In contrast, branching Acropora and larger coral Porites were less affected, which “points to the variability and dynamics on coral reefs”. Coral bleaching is quickly damaging the Great ...

The previous coral record was thought to be held by a Porites coral in American Samoa, which had a circumference of 69 metres. Loading “The ocean provides for our livelihoods and has contributed ...