UC Davis researchers are studying why some corals can stand heat and heal from bleaching. The answers could help protect ...

Did you know that coral reefs are vital to the survival of our ecosystem? And did you also know that reefs can be found as deep as 8000 meters in the ocean? As deep as they are, those reefs are still ...

Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they ...

Dr. Herdís Steinsdóttir deploying an instrument near the reef in Eilat to record water currents, allowing her to keep track of the direction of sea currents. A new study shows that coral reefs don’t ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

Tristan Salles receives funding from Australian Research Council. Laurent Husson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

Roger Lolly and Louis Cioffi know a good idea when they hear one. “When my wife saw what Chicken Salad Chick was doing, I mentioned it to Roger,” Cioffi, who co-owns Florida Boy Burger Co. with Lolly, ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A new global report warns coral reefs have already reached a climate tipping point, dying faster than they can naturally recover. The Global Tipping Points Report, authored ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

ROME — A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 1,640 feet in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the Mediterranean, ...