Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes ... warming that causes coral to bleach, to severe ...

Biomes determine what kind of land, plants, and creatures you will find ... Warm oceans contain coral reefs and tropical fish while lukewarm oceans have fewer coral reefs. Cold oceans have fewer ...

Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.

Prior research has shown that climate change is endangering coral reefs, which in turn endangers the creatures that live on and around them. Coral reefs are in trouble for two reasons: The first ...

Deep underneath the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean lies a dazzling landscape of undulating coral reefs colored by photosynthetic algae, from which corals get their energy. But in the early 1980s ...

Once a year, typically after sunset in the late summer, the coral baby-making ... and then “out-plant” them, or adhere them to the seafloor to help restore the reef. But this isn’t enough.

The microbialization of coral reefs predicts that microbial oxygen consumption will cause reef deoxygenation. Here we tested this hypothesis by analyzing reef microbial and primary producer oxygen ...