Nature World News: NASA plans to take a new and improved approach to studying coral reefs this year, with the launch of a three-year field expedition conducted with advanced instruments to survey the world's reefs in far greater detail than ever before.
Researchers from the COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) will take aerial and up-close, underwater measurements to better assess the condition of these threatened ecosystems. Their findings will be used to create a unique database of uniform scale and quality,...