But the grasses aren’t showy like coral reefs or immediately recognizable like mangroves, and they’ve become one of the least protected coastal ecosystems. “If we lose seagrass, and I mean ...

Covering only 0.1% of the ocean floor, these seagrass meadows provide food and ... most vulnerable ecosystems and species, such as coral reefs. And to the coastal populations, they act as the ...

BlueInvest, the EU’s innovation and investment platform for ocean technology, invested a whopping￡500,000 toward this new ...

These results could be important not only for coral reefs, but also for other marine ecosystems such as seagrass meadows or ...

We can now automatically process and classify data about large areas of the sea floor thanks to a transformative ...

This grows by up to 10 centimetres a year and the coral develops into various shapes and sizes ... corals gradually build up the complex three-dimensional structure of a reef. This habitable ...

Governments and coastal communities in the Indian Ocean region are being encouraged to invest heavily in aquaculture as an ...

The ridges in coral reefs act as barriers and can reduce wave energy by up to 97%, providing crucial protection from threats such as tsunamis. They help protect areas such as mangrove forests and ...