Marine scientists from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have been collecting and relocating sea urchins in an effort to aid coral reef restoration. Sea urchins help prevent invasive algae from overgrowing struggling coral reefs so…
Tela Of Mystical Beauty
By Quentin Caussin We went to Honduras because we heard about the legendary reef in Tela. And, it turns out that it is far beyond our expectations. Detached from the second largest barrier reef in the world, here are coral…
Martin Moe Diadema urchin spawning work documented in video
If you want to understand why the coral reefs of the Caribbean went from wonderful to wasteland, a lot of the ecological change seems to hinge on a plague that nearly wiped out Diadema sea urchins in 1983. With that idea…