Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth's oceans, caused by the oceans' absorption of atmospheric ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...

Millions of coral larvae on the Great Barrier Reef have an increased chance of replenishing degraded reefs thanks to the "larval seedbox"—a coral restoration technology developed by CSIRO, Australia's ...

A group that is pioneering underwater sculpture parks as a way to establish human-made coral reefs has deployed its first installation off Miami Beach.

Amidst the decline of reefs worldwide, UC Riverside scientists have launched a $1.1 million project to uncover how coral regains life-giving algae after suffering from heat stress.

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem. By Catrin Einhorn After a searing ocean ...