Discover how brain coral got its name, and why it’s vital to protect it.

In addition, our oceans absorb 30% of human-made carbon dioxide from the air (much like our forests do), and this is causing the ocean ... just the white skeletons of the coral remains, so a reef ...

They must survive encrusting algae that crowd the ocean floor ... Any visitor to our Great Barrier Reef knows that no one reef looks like the other. Their beauty—and their strength—is in ...

Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers ... known to harbor Symbiodiniaceae, a family of algae that creates nutrients for the coral by ...

"One million tonnes of dumping dredged sludge into world heritage waters treats our reef like a rubbish tip ... "The coral relies on the algae, that's what give them their colour and what ...