While plants and some bacteria can make their own food ... too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs.

A frightening phenomenon that's making seawater more acidic, spelling disaster for many marine animals, from plankton and coral up the food chain to sea stars ... We're already seeing the effects as ...

endangering the food supply chain and long-term economic gains for people who depend on fish for their livelihoods. Coral ...

A discovery has been made of something that has been living in the deep waters and it is a living organism of its kind, very ...

Pteropods are tiny snails that are found throughout the oceans and are an important link in the marine food web. They’re gobbled up by ... Corals: Scientists warn us that coral reefs will vanish by ...

around a quarter of all ocean fish depend on coral reefs. Should these reefs collapse, the negative impact on biodiversity throughout the ocean food chain could be profound. Corals directly ...

So far the marine ecosystem has proven resilient to coral bleaching ... gleams against the blue Caribbean Sea. Healthy reefs support a food chain that links plankton to predators.