QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could ...

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...

In case you haven't been paying attention, it's getting hotter every year, and some environments are beginning to reach a ...

The crucial reef-building corals were decimated by a marine heat wave in the Florida Keys. Can advances in restoration help ...

Coral reefs worldwide are in major trouble. Their numbers have dwindled dramatically over time and today, they’re facing yet another mass bleaching event. But research has offered hope that human ...

UC San Diego has created a novel underwater microscope that it says will greatly improve scientists’ ability to study the health of coral reefs — crucial wildlife habitats that also limit coastal ...

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

Miami — Marine scientists in Miami are hoping to restore Florida's coral reef by taking coral from Honduras and crossbreeding it. "It's the first time ever in the world that an international cross of ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has just been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean, scientists announced Wednesday. The mega ...