Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great lengths to protect and restore them?

Hawksbill sea turtle with reef in the background. Image by stockfoto-graf via Depositphotos. The hawksbill sea turtle is a critically endangered species that plays a vital role in coral reef ...

Scientists have successfully spawned a cross-bred coral and plan on planting them just off Biscayne Bay in Miami.

The Collapse of the World’s Coral Reefs is “Death by a Thousand Cuts” A marine ecologist on the impacts of losing this ecological “canary in the coal mine.

This is what allows the distribution of corals to shift over time, and the fossil record shows coral reef expansions have happened before, Vogt-Vincent notes.

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Florida coral reef: Will fishing council let rock shrimp nets drag the rare Oculina Bank? The Oculina Bank coral reef, found nowhere else in the world, is thousands of years old and habitat for ...

Florida coral reef: Will fishing council let rock shrimp nets drag the rare Oculina Bank? The Oculina Bank coral reef, found nowhere else in the world, is thousands of years old and habitat for ...

Cleaner fish: Tiny healers or hidden spreaders in coral reef ecosystems? Tiny, hardworking cleaner fish play a role in reef microbial diversity Date: June 12, 2025 Source: University of California ...

SAFMC considers reopening protected Oculina Bank coral reef to rock shrimp trawling nets The Oculina Bank coral reef, found nowhere else in the world, is thousands of years old and habitat for ...

When the researchers applied the gel, called SNAP-X, to surfaces in lab experiments it increased coral larvae settlement by up to 20 times compared to untreated surfaces. SNAP-X could help overcome a ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.