Coastal tourism offers something for everyone, from cruises to water sports. But with a rise in ecolabels and green claims, ...

High-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp, particularly at night, can serve as an effective indicator of coral reef resilience, according to research published in the journal Royal Society ...

Today, unprecedented coral bleaching, a relatively new illness called stony coral tissue loss disease and other threats to corals are negatively impacting reef health across Belize, according to ...

That makes coral reef food webs more structured and more fragile than we thought, offering new insight into how these ecosystems work, and how vulnerable they may be to rapid environmental change.

The coral was bred with Honduran and Florida Elkhorn in an effort to make a more heat-resistant coral.

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?

For the first time internationally, researchers at UM's Rosenstiel School are planting crossbred elkhorn coral babies in the wild reefs of Biscayne Bay.

Traditionally, many coral reef monitoring and restoration programmes overlook their beauty, considering it too subjective to measure. And as a team of scientists, that frustrated us.

Underwater monitoring of high-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp can be an effective and inexpensive way to monitor coral reef health.

A bacterial probiotic helped slow the spread of a deadly disease on great star coral, one of the largest and most resistant corals still surviving in the Florida Reef Tract, a 560-kilometer (350 ...

Concerning revelations have emerged from one of the longest-running coral reef monitoring programmes in the Indian Ocean. The 24-year-long study shows that corals in the Lakshadweep archipelago ...