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

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

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Restoring oysters—and their ability to filter large volumes of water—is widely seen as a key way to improve the health of Chesapeake Bay. New research makes this calculus even more appealing, showing ...

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 ...

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 ...