In the fight to protect coral reefs from climate change, scientists have attempted a world-first approach. They were able to ...

A survey of reefs around Little Cayman has revealed a shocking decline in coral cover from 26% at the start of 2023 down to less than ten percent by this summer. The devastating loss of ...

(The Hill) — Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass bleaching event in the past year as the ocean continues to heat, according to new research. Mass bleaching has been reported in coral ...

The findings prompted a U.N. special emergency session — typically called to address escalating conflicts or natural disasters — on corals to be convened on sidelines of the U.N. biodiversity summit, ...

Large sections of the Great Barrier Reef appear to have been smashed by climate change and cyclones this year, with one reef ...

The tiles will provide a solid foundation to plant juvenile corals and for coral larvae to settle on, while also dispersing ...

For all of the mysteries that remain about coral reefs, though, experts agree that climate change is an undisputed threat.

Like humans, coral reefs rely on nutrients in the environment surrounding them. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

To understand the science behind coral bleaching, it’s important to know what’s in front of your scuba goggles when you’re looking at a coral reef. Although they may look like plants at ...

Warmer than normal ocean temperatures in Hawaiian waters “are likely to cause corals . . . to bleach and even die” in a repeat of 2014 and 2015, the state Department of Land and Natural ...

July 8, 2024 — Coral reefs, those vibrant underwater cities, stand on the precipice of collapse. While rising ocean temperatures and coral bleaching grab headlines, a new essay reveals a hidden ...

Coral reefs across the globe once again endure mass bleaching amid warming oceans, scientists say Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source ...