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For more information about Guam’s reefs and the crown of thorn threat, Eyes of the Reef will hold training from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 26 at the Fort Soledad Ballroom in the Outrigger Guam ...
Design work is underway for a museum dedicated to the historic SS United States, which is headed to Florida after decades docked in South Philadelphia ...
Covered with long, venomous spikes, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is a voracious feeder that can eat living corals because of a unique adaptation: a wax-digesting enzyme system.
Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.
After decades in South Philly, the SS United States is being prepared to become the world's largest artificial reef. The ship ...
Called the COTSbot (Crown-of-Thorns Starfish robot), it's designed to autonomously patrol and monitor the reefs without a tether, using robotic vision to find the starfish. When it locates a Crown ...
Here boats at Looe Key Reef Resort carry 20,000 divers a year to one place, Looe Key Reef. It is known as “The crown jewel of the Florida Keys,” yet some don't see it that way anymore.
There have been several outbreaks of these starfish on the Great Barrier Reef, each lasting between 10 and 15 years, with the first occurring in the 1960s. These starfish are considered a major ...
Australia's reef is big, beautiful and on its deathbed. The reef can still heal itself, but not without our help. Daniel Van Boom is an award-winning Senior Writer based in Sydney, Australia ...