Research at a lab at Roger Williams University on genetically modifying Rhode Island's native coral could help save tropical ...

Coral reef conservation needs to take an equitable approach and include local impacted communities in decision-making and ...

Mike Emslie, who heads the tropical marine research agency’s long-term monitoring program, said the live coral cover measured ...

Corals can be used as a proxy: They build themselves in alternating dark and light bands that, like trees, correspond to ...

Probiotics can be good for human health. Now, new research suggests they might also help protect coral reefs. A bacterial probiotic helped slow the advance of stony coral tissue loss disease—a ...

“Coral reefs, particularly in the Caribbean, have undergone decades of degradation due to a variety of stressors, most or all attributed to human activities,” Levitan said. “However, not all coral ...

In the 18 years I’ve studied reefs in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean, coral populations have continued to decline such that they can no longer recover naturally; I worry that even those few ...

A 14-hour drive north of Perth, Ningaloo is unique. The world's largest fringing reef and another of Australia's Unesco World ...

They don’t cover a whole lot of the planet’s surface, about 0.1 percent, but a quarter of all marine species that we know depend on coral reefs at some stage in their life, you know, so this ...