Off the Texas coast, artificial RGV Reef is ‘capturing or trapping CO2 . . . in some significant proportions,' says UTRGV research lead with Enbridge-funded study A researcher bags samples from the ...

The 1,650-acre Rio Grande Valley Reef has helped to restore the waterways off the coast of Texas. Could it help capture carbon, too? Researchers from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley have ...

Ocean acidification will severely impair coral reef growth before the end of the century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unchecked. The paper represents the first ocean acidification experiment ...

Microsoft has stopped short of calling on Australia reintroducing a carbon price but its own internal carbon scheme will fund new Great Barrier Reef research. A controversial $444 million grant for ...

Carbon dioxide can really mess with fishes’ heads. Dissolved in ocean water, the acidic chemical turns timid young reef fish into tipsy little daredevils, researchers report April 13 in Nature Climate ...

The Great Barrier Reef has a meadow of deep-water seagrass that acts as a huge blue carbon sink, scientists have discovered. The seagrass, which covers an area twice the size of New Jersey, stores ...

Scientists are hoping a new study will help predict how rising levels of carbon dioxide will affect the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland. University of Queensland researchers want to get a better ...

Researchers have found a "surprising" level of carbon sequestration by a deep water seagrass bed the size of Switzerland in the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists from Deakin and James Cook Universities ...

A researcher bags samples from the RGV Reef to be studied in the UTRGV lab. There’s the proverbial knowledge sponge. On the flipside, there’s the dreaded fun sponge. In this case, off the Texas coast, ...