Reef

The Unsung Reef

Australia's corals may get all the headlines, but the country's kelp-dominated temperate reefs are at least as important and imperiled. Now they're finally getting the restoration focus they deserve.

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Colorful surgeonfish of the Acanthuridae family hover around a shallow reef—Photograph by Lauric Thiault / TARA Expeditions Foundation
A Cure for Coral Reefs?

Scientists hope that dosing damaged corals with probiotics could fortify reefs against pollution, disease, and climate change.