A Florida State University ecology and evolutionary biologist has discovered that the reproductive methods of individual ...

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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 ...

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The City of Cape Coral and its residents are at odds over a proposed water facility project within Yellow Fever Creek Preserve. The city is planning to build a water storage and pumping facility ...

Cape Coral residents' fight to protect Yellow Fever Creek Preserve continues after the Planning and Zoning Commission greenlit a controversial water facility project. At its meeting Wednesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

PREMIUM Bleached Porites corals ... leading to bleaching. A change in the coral reef's colour to yellow is a visual representation of this, and it can cause widespread coral die-offs," Gopinath ...

David Juszkiewicz, a PhD Candidate at Curtin University and Lindsey Kraemer, a masters student from James Cook University, are sampling and taking pictures of a massive Porites coral in Ningaloo Reef.

Visual: This place in Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean provides sanctuary and protects extensive coral reefs, including some of the oldest and largest Porites coral heads in the world. Name it.