Allowing coral reef fish to rebound is emerging as one of the clearest ways to put more healthy protein on the plates of ...

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

The impact of plastic on the many species that call the ocean home is a huge unknown, but scientists are starting to piece together the kinds of risks this pollution poses to the marine ecosystem. The ...

Scientists reveal overfished reefs could be a lifeline for hungry communities. Restoration matters for both people and nature ...

Commercially important seafood species are at greater risk of microplastic contamination depending how they clump together in the marine environment, new research suggests. In the first study of its ...

Is there anything better than a warm spring evening on the water? The nonprofit RETI Center is throwing an Infinite Mussel Party on May 4 on its floating eco-barge in the Gowanus Bay Terminal. All are ...

Across the Great Lakes, collections of underwater rocks have traditionally served as incubators for native fish eggs. In Lake Michigan, this reef habitat can vary from a field of cobblestones the size ...

Scuba diver Glen Black prepares to dive near Good Harbor Reef, July 26, 2021, in Lake Michigan near Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. He is part of a team from the USGS filming an ...

The ancient seas that once soaked the shores surrounding Michigan bestowed the Petoskey stone to Northern Michigan; a rock proceeding from petrified coral reef. In contemporary times, reef habitats ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found that when mussels were clumped together forming reefs -- as they do in nature -- the reef structure resulted in a three-fold rise in the amount of ...