One of the greatest challenges facing marine ecologists today is finding innovative ways to reverse the rapid decline of coral reef ecosystems around the world. To address this crisis, an ...

Protecting groupers In 2008, a study found Caribbean groupers, a common and widespread group of medium-to-large sized coral reef fishes, were eating lionfish in the Bahamas.

-- The Bahamas Coral Gene Bank at Atlantis Paradise Island is a cornerstone of the country's national commitment to coral conservation and marine resilience -- ...

Now it is routine, too, to find pictures in news stories about the crisis captioned “dead coral reef,” morose tableaus where there are no more colorful fish and exotically shaped coral, only ...

As the hurricane season for 2020 begins, the Bahamas is still recovering from Hurricane Dorian, which struck the island last year as a historic Category 5 storm. A total of 200 people died and ...

When Hurricane Dorian slammed into the Bahamas in September, it not only leveled entire communities and killed dozens of people, it also destroyed about 30 percent of the coral reefs around the ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— Sharks and other predatory fish are scarce across Caribbean coral reefs because of decades of overfishing, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. But ...

The Bahamas has launched an aggressive national conservation initiative to address and reverse the devastating effects of warming ocean temperatures and a disease ravaging its coral reefs. The ...

/CNW/ -- The Bahamas has launched an aggressive national conservation initiative to address and reverse the devastating effects of warming ocean temperatures ...