Snorkel amongst gorgeous works of art in a unique underwater trail designed to save local coral reefs while providing a fun ...

Researchers at the University of Miami are hoping that hybrid corals, created by breeding local corals with those that thrive ...

Scientists studied baby corals and found that some species stay very close to their parents while others travel huge ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia's Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering ...

Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...

Coral reefs are home to roughly a quarter of all marine life, and they provide a natural barrier against storms. ... The change could help cool the seas a bit — at least temporarily.

The news is not uniformly bleak. A global study of coral reefs that seemed wildly ambitious when it launched in 2014 suggests that some coral reefs are showing impressive resilience. Some could even ...

Reefs in Florida and the Caribbean struggled for years with pollution and rising temperatures. Then stony coral tissue loss disease arrived in 2014, decimating corals in a deadly wave along ...

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years.

For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years .