Some corals can pass heat resistance to their offspring - giving new hope for the survival and restoration of reefs in a ...

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawaiʻi or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler For more than three decades, Mark Erdmann has worked where many only dream of diving—on the reefs and ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

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

Researchers have identified how thyroxine, a human thyroid hormone, can positively influence the life-critical calcification process in soft corals, and have developed a unique technique for injecting ...

Beyond corals, the tool has widespread potential for studying other small-scale marine organisms that photosynthesize, such ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami’s coastline that ...

A new handheld microscope lets scientists monitor coral health in real time, underwater, without harming reefs.

The researchers are looking for ways to help reefs survive global warming. The work could provide a blueprint for working ...