These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

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.

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...

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

Andrew Baker, who directs the Coral Reef Futures Lab at the university’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, spent 15 hours flying with the corals in a cargo plane.

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 ...

Dr. Jordan Casey will take you on a deep dive into the colorful world of coral reefs. From the stunning diversity of reef organisms to the mysterious connections between species, learn how scientists ...

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 .