Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared ...

In case you haven't been paying attention, it's getting hotter every year, and some environments are beginning to reach a ...

Recent record-breaking ocean temperatures have killed off so many elkhorn and staghorn corals, they are on the verge of disappearing completely, scientists have found.

Coral reefs have passed their survival limit, confirming Earth’s first tipping point and signaling more irreversible climate ...

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...

Warm-water coral reefs cross thermal tipping point, undergoing unprecedented dieback, marking Earth’s first climate ‘tipping ...

Record-warm ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida last summer stressed an already vulnerable coral reef system, prompting a massive die-off across the only living barrier reef in the continental ...

It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1,430 miles, and it may be collapsing. Alas, ...

In an effort to restore damaged coral reefs, some groups are growing hardy varieties of coral in nurseries, then transplanting them onto existing reef beds. The new Maritechture system is designed to ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived for centuries. Slowly, layer by layer, they have constructed intricate, rigid ...