More than 11 billion plastics are currently putting coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific at risk of becoming diseased and destroying the ... about 0.2 per cent of the ocean floor but account ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Image: Aldabra in the Indian Ocean is one of the world's most heavily protected coral atolls Jude Brice, the station manager, took us by boat to the thriving coral reef that rings the island.

Ocean documentaries also educate people about environmental issues such as pollution, habitat destruction ... the reasons for the drop in the coral reef population. However, they are not alone ...

This relationship between the zooxanthellae and the coral polyps is an excellent example of a mutually beneficial relationship, also known as symbiosis. Although they occupy less than 0.1% of the ...