Ningaloo Reef is sick, like many coral reefs around the world. Oceans are now storing 90% of the excess heat from global warming — and each of the last eight years has set a new record for the ...

“Bleaching becomes more severe if either the heat stress episodes are more intense or if they last for a longer time,” Joerg Wiedenmann, a marine biologist who heads the Coral Reef Laboratory ...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...

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

Below the ocean’s surface, there’s a vibrant ensemble of sounds — a chorus of vibrations, croaks, pops and crackles that come together to form the soundtrack of a healthy coral reef.

They describe how sampling and analyzing reef water for certain microbes can be useful, not just to microbiologists and reef scientists, but to others directly tasked with managing and conserving ...