Coral reefs are pivotal for the sustenance of life but an NGO's well-meaning effort to create an artificial reef in the late ...

Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies ...

Researchers from University of Queensland have discovered that corals need to be within 10 meters of each other to reproduce ...

Fortera’s low-carbon cement, based on the process by which corals form their skeletons, is gaining traction as the essential ...

Objects and Ideograms has developed a method to 3D-print calcium carbonate, which can be used as a scaffold for the growth of coral polyps and other aquatic life. Coral carbonate utilises its ...

The new research, which was published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, paints a worrying picture for the Great Barrier ...

"In our lab, we are able to analyze the extremely minute amounts of nitrogen locked in the calcium carbonate crystals of coral skeletons, allowing us to infer how the Oxygen Deficient Zone (ODZ ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

They grow very slowly and make a hard outer shell by extracting calcium carbonate from seawater, then fuse together to make larger colonies. Coral reefs may only cover 0.2% of the seafloor ...

Coral bleaching occurs when corals lose their algae, exposing their white calcium carbonate skeletons. Corals helped Darwin refine his ideas about evolution. His first scientific book after ...

a red coral seaweed made up mostly of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate. Natumi adds ground dry algae powder to its drinks. Other organic drink makers in Europe, including Belgian giant Alpro, ...

Though it often looks like colourful rock, coral is actually made of colonies of marine animals related to sea anemones, that secrete a hard exoskeleton around themselves as they grow. Its exoskeleton ...