These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...

Coral reefs can seem almost magical in their beauty, but their origins are grounded in biology and science. These vibrant structures are made by countless tiny animals known as coral polyps.

Iconic elkhorn and staghorn corals took the heaviest losses, and researchers say they are at risk of becoming “functionally extinct” in the Florida Reef. Staghorn coral populations in the ...

On top of that, a Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) and United Nations Environment Programme report found that about 14% of the world’s coral reefs disappeared between 2009 and 2018 ...

Florida's coral reef off the Florida Keys is finally seeing some relief as a water cooling trend has continued in recent weeks. Now, coral experts are beginning to relocate rescued corals back to ...

In the world of coral biology, white is a bad color. It indicates that the corals, which comprise a colony of marine animals called polyps, have lost a kind of algae that lives within their bodies.

Stream Reef Builders, Save Coral Reefs. For those who don't live near the ocean, the health of our world's coral reefs may not be a top-of-mind issue.

"This is not the first time that MPs [microplastics] have been found in coral skeletons; however, it is the first time that MP fragments smaller than 300 micrometers have been reported in wild ...

Experiments for this study were conducted on the Hawaiian stony coral species Montipora capitata.Credit: Chris Wall. The research, published today in Trends in Biotechnology, was conducted with ...

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area.