Creating a way for tourists and casual oceangoers to flag diseased coral is underway as white syndrome threatens reefs around ...

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

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

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is ...

Coral babies on the move: How larvae's long-distance journeys strengthen reef populations by University of Queensland edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

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

Volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii and the Caribbean, are often fringed by coral reefs – ring-shaped structures that closely follow the shoreline. These reefs aren’t continuous. They contain ...

But bleached coral is not dead coral and can recover if the stressor is removed. While coral reefs have thrived for 50 million years, most coral reefs today are on the brink of disappearing.

The reefs of tomorrow will look very different from those of the past, but our work reveals the ways one coral—the humble mustard hill coral—may come to dominate future Caribbean reefs." ...

ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—Thirty-five feet deep in clear turquoise waters, a three-foot-long yellow underwater robot maneuvers over a coral reef at a popular snorkeling site named Tektite ...

Corals that build reefs often share their calcium carbonate skeleton with tiny algae that photosynthesise like plants on land. The coral host gains food, the algae shelter. These algae are also ...

Coral-reef ecosystems—from the famous reefs of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to the Great Barrier—are the ocean’s rainforests. Vital and vulnerable, they shelter nearly a quarter of ...