2009). Charles Darwin first proposed the theory of atoll reef formation. He postulated that fringing reefs develop close to the shoreline in shallow waters around volcanic islands (Figure 6).

He was also working with navigators to chart the coral reefs that the Beagle encountered in the South Pacific and Indian oceans. Along the way, Darwin hatched new ideas about the formation of ...

The U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, or USAKA, is a coral reef formation located in the Republic of the Marshall Islands more than 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. USAKA consists of more than 100 islets ...

A new study has implications for predicting coral reef survival and developing mitigation strategies against having their bony skeletons weakened by ocean acidification. A new University of ...

Reefs provide $100 million in extractive resources ... disease intervention strategies and artificial reef formation, which together can assist wider coral habitat and species restoration efforts.

The report also indicates that, when considering the natural formation of the coral systems in the two reefs and the natural development of the three existing sandbars on the reef flats ...

Frequent and illegal human activities by the Philippines have caused damage to the coral reef ecosystems around Tiexian Reef of the South China Sea, said a report released by the Ministry of ...

IN NATURE for February 18 there is a paper by Mr. J. S. Gardiner giving a concise account of his theory of coral reefs. A more extended paper by him on the same subject appeared in the ...