KCRW

Hear the new sounds that show life returning in these coral reefs

A healthy coral reef is a spectacle for the eyes, but it's also a chorus for the ears. Both the vibrant colors and bright sound that coral reefs are known for can disappear when damage occurs, but a ...
New Atlas

Sounds appealing – reef recordings entice coral larvae to start building

Scientists have discovered that audio recordings of healthy coral reefs may help attract free-swimming coral larvae to damaged ones. The finding could be a major step toward preserving the world's ...
Scientific American

Hear the Sounds of a Sick Coral Reef

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In case you missed it we’re spending this week revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the past year. Today we’re ...
Yahoo

Researchers make game-changing discovery about the unexpected sounds that can save the world's dying coral reefs: 'This gives us a new tool'

Researchers have discovered playing the ambient sounds of healthy coral reefs underwater helps encourage vital reef-building coral, suggesting a promising path for repairing weakening reefs around the ...
EurekAlert!

Sonic youth: Healthy reef sounds increase coral settlement

Woods Hole, Mass. – A healthy coral reef is noisy, full of the croaks, purrs, and grunts of various fishes and the crackling of snapping shrimp. Research suggests that larval animals use this symphony ...
Futurism

Coral Reefs Coaxed Back to Life by Playing Happy Reef Sounds on Underwater Speakers

Researchers have found that playing the sounds of happy corals through underwater speakers could allow degrading coral reefs to regain lost vitality. A team of scientists played recordings of healthy ...
WUNC

There's a difference between the sound of a healthy coral reef and a degraded reef

INSKEEP: Nadege Aoki studies the bioacoustics of coral reefs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. NADEGE AOKI: They support close to a quarter of all marine species. And that also ...
EurekAlert!

‘Fishial’ recognition: Neural network identifies coral reef sounds

WASHINGTON, March 11, 2025 – Coral reefs are some of the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world’s oceans, one quarter of all marine species spend some portion of ...

What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.

Scientists using new ways to eavesdrop on fish have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts in underwater recordings.
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Coral Reef sounds being diluted by climate change

WAKING UP CORAL REEFS. YEAH, THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING STORY. NOW CORALS RELY ON A HEALTHY SOUNDSCAPE TO THRIVE, AND SCIENTISTS HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS MAY HAVE THE PERFECT SYMPHONY. SO THERE’S A LOT ...
Scientific American

Hear the Sounds of a Sick Coral Reef

And from that I kept sort of learning more about: well, I can see that they’re interacting together, but I can also hear these different, for example, these tiny, little coral reef fish that are ...