For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia's Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.
Chaojiao Sun receives funding from CSIRO and the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program. Craig Steinberg receives funding from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Integrated Marine ...
In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, the group describes how they found multiple examples of the fish while on an expedition that involved exploring deep-sea coral reefs off the coast ...
Almost half of warm-water reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction ... especially bottom trawling, deep sea mining, drilling for oil and gas, or laying of deep-sea cables.