Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

Even with the nutrition provided by zooxanthallae, the process of building ... the hypothesis of reef formation first described by Darwin over a hundred years earlier. Coral reefs can be separated ...

Coral reefs are ... If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable aragonite and precipitates calcite. This process converts the reef into ...

so it’s been so incredible being a part of this process to see also how our story [has led to] changes in coral reef restoration awareness.” Cravalho has always been passionate about the ...

Corals helped Darwin refine his ideas about evolution. His first scientific book after returning from the voyage of the Beagle was an account of the formation of coral reefs.

Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and among the most valuable. They nurture 25% of all ocean life, protect coasts from storms and add billions of dollars yearly ...

John "Charlie" Veron -- widely known as "The Godfather of Coral" -- is a ... to help the Great Barrier Reef. There has been criticism in Australia about the tender process for the funding, as ...

Little of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has now been left unscathed by coral bleaching. A recent aerial survey by scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has found the ...

Along the way, Darwin hatched new ideas about the formation of reefs — including the shimmering island rings of coral known as atolls ... dissolve the rocks. This process is known as ...