{"id":39576,"date":"2025-10-24T08:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/?p=39576"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:43:47","slug":"new-research-reveals-how-ocean-acidification-affects-coral-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/new-research-reveals-how-ocean-acidification-affects-coral-skeletons\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Reveals: How Ocean Acidification Affects Coral Skeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"39576\" class=\"elementor elementor-39576 elementor-39575\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cb68d1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cb68d1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55a6891\" data-id=\"55a6891\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-37f530c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"37f530c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-73f4dd1\" data-id=\"73f4dd1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-821a987 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"821a987\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">New Research Reveals: How Ocean Acidification Affects Coral Skeletons\n<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba883b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3ba883b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>24.10.25<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6862cb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6862cb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">A new study conducted at the Coral Biomineralization and Physiology Laboratory led by Prof. Tali Mass from the <a href=\"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/school\/department-of-marine-biology\/\">Department of Marine Biology<\/a>, in collaboration with an international team, examined how ocean acidification affects the earliest stage of coral skeleton formation.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The research, led by Dr. Federica Scucchia \u2013 then a PhD student in Prof. Mass&#8217;s lab \u2013 used high-resolution imaging at the BESSY facility in Berlin and revealed a surprising finding: under ocean acidification conditions, coral skeletons become denser, but not in a positive way. Certain parts of the skeleton do not develop properly, resulting in increased brittleness and elevated fracture risk.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The phenomenon is similar to a building that appears stable from the outside, but the materials inside are not of the required quality.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">These findings are highly significant, as they help us understand which corals may adapt better to climate change, and how we can protect our coral reefs.<\/p><p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">The research was conducted in collaboration with Charit\u00e9 \u2013 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, with support from the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the ERC.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202508585?fbclid=IwY2xjawN-b31leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyd2kyTWw5bEdLMDZBYjFzc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhWlkPFuKoXVCA87KaNCbgxDjIjdc0UHBPn1IEQECmIQEP0rgwzCdMR8Q-ps_aem_gccoEMEQkRx6h6-d5uRo-Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read the full article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d62634 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3d62634\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-39541\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.png 518w, https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study conducted at the Coral Biomineralization and Physiology Laboratory led by Prof. Tali Mass from the Department of Marine Biology, in collaboration with an international team, examined how ocean acidification affects the earliest stage of coral skeleton formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marsci.haifa.ac.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}