Coral reefs occupy less than 0.1 percent of the ocean’s floor, but provide huge ecological and economic benefits.About 25 percent of all marine species depend on them at some point in their life ...

But Red Sea coral reefs, unlike those elsewhere, have proven "highly tolerant to rising sea temperatures," said Mahmoud Hanafy, professor of marine biology at Egypt's Suez Canal University. Scientists ...

“Scientists say our corals in the Red Sea will survive 1.5 degrees Celsius warming, while about 70 or more percent of the rest of the world’s corals are likely to disappear once we get to 1.5 ...

But Red Sea coral reefs, unlike those elsewhere, were “highly tolerant to rising sea temperatures”, said Mahmoud Hanafy, professor of marine biology at Egypt’s Suez Canal University.

The Red Sea's spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn -- the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease.Because the long-spined creatures feed on algae ...

A sea-borne pandemic that wiped out sea urchin populations in the Red Sea has spread and is taking out the species in parts of the Indian Ocean and could go global, scientists in Israel say.

Researchers have discovered a giant coral colony on the north-western coast of Saudi Arabia, in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort.

Red Sea coral study points to rich microbial ... 3:19 pm Edit. Share. Copy link; Send ... Only those able to bear the hot water there could pass through and move into the northern Red Sea and the ...

Red Sea corals may be uniquely suited to survive warming waters because they evolved in an extreme environment that is hotter than where most of the world’s other corals live.

Beneath the waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world's "last coral refuge" as global heating ...

The Red Sea's spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn—the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease. Because the long-spined creatures feed on ...