The back reef includes the shallow lagoon between the shore and coral reef. This habitat includes small patches of corals, sea grass beds ... and calcareous red algae act as biological-cement ...

Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...

It was an obsession born of a memory of a submerged paradise with silver schools of fish, meadows of red sea whips ... The accounting includes 536 types of coral (more than half the world ...

Coral colonies are habitats and breeding grounds for many marine species, including sharks, manatees, dugongs, fish, sea ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

The coral reef systems of the Al Wajh lagoon on the Red Sea, the world's fourth largest ... materials such as green concrete and other types of durable, reusable or recyclable materials, ideally ...