A new scientific paper reveals that many predictions about the future of coral reefs under climate change may be missing a ...

An international team of scientists working with Queensland Museum's CoralBank have made groundbreaking findings that rewrite ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elkhorn coral helps form the skeleton of a healthy reef, but more than 95% of the Elkhorn coral off Florida has been wiped out. Scientists have created the "Flonduran" crossbreed to solve the problem.

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

The Maui Ocean Center’s curator, Chris Keller, said that, when coral reefs have been damaged, a team sometimes goes out to gather samples of coral species in the breakoff area. Keller said the ...