A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

Coral reefs worldwide, including the Great Barrier Reef, have faced severe damage from recent bleaching events caused by ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

Read more: The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from extreme ocean heat as corals bleach across the Caribbean Sadly, Vogt-Vincent is doubtful.

Coral bleach­ing is the process when corals be­come white due to loss of sym­bi­ot­ic al­gae and pho­to­syn­thet­ic pig­ments. This loss of pig­ment can be caused by var­i­ous stres­sors, such as ...

The Coral Gene Bank at Atlantis Paradise Island is a pioneering initiative to ensure that no coral species in The Bahamas is lost due to disease, bleaching, or other environmental stressors.

By tracing how those microscopic allies behave when heat strikes, scientists have found new clues to coral reef survival in a hotter world. A team from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Coral reef. Image via Unsplash. Coral bleaching represents the most visible and widespread symptom of reef decline. This phenomenon occurs when corals expel their symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) in ...

When marine ecologist Casey Benkwitt set out to study coral reefs, she never thought she’d spend so much time thinking about bird poop. Now, six years after she started exploring how seabird guano ...

After just one generation of breeding, scientists say they have been able to double the heat tolerance of Ningaloo Reef coral using re-engineering techniques first developed at the Great Barrier Reef.

Rarotongan reefs have recently faced bleaching events and outbreaks of the carnivorous crown-of-thorns starfish, leading to a decline in live coral cover. Understanding the resistance and ability ...