A culling programme has succeeded in protecting key areas of the Great Barrier Reef from voracious coral-eating starfish. Scientists who analysed the outcome say the effort should be expanded to ...

With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs. Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns ...

Small, hidden crabs may be the missing link influencing coral-eating starfish populations, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While we know ...

Environmental DNA, or eDNA, can help us detect species by the traces they leave behind in their surroundings. This ...

Mass coral mortality is the worst it has ever been. Some experts say neither side of politics is prepared to reckon with ...

The coral reefs of Nha Trang, Vietnam, are in severe decline due to climate change, overfishing, and pollution ...

The coral reefs of Nha Trang have also had to contend ... By 2019, an outbreak of a predatory, thorny starfish — made likelier because of the reef’s disturbed ecological balance — had ...