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

SCTLD is a highly lethal disease in corals that was first spotted in 2014. According to NOAA, it affects over 20 coral ...

Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new ...

A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans are threatening the already endangered coral reefs with disease, a new study has warned. More than 11 billion plastics are currently putting coral reefs ...

The tropical coastlines of Southeast Asia are home to some of the most important and biodiverse marine ecosystems on the planet. But as well as being essential to communities along these coastlines, ...

Coral reefs are already severely endangered by climate change and environmental pollution. "Since the 1950s, we have already lost half of all hard corals worldwide, especially in the Caribbean ...

"But without urgent action, the world’s coral reefs face extinction from global heating, acidification, disease, and pollution; a vital ecosystem lost within our lifetime.” Next year ...

pollution -- and hurricanes. "Without relevant decisions from those with the power to change this trajectory, we will see the ...