Marine biologists found the new bacteria in the tissue of two soft coral species that live in complete darkness in the Gulf ...

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction -- and climate change is the chief culprit, a ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

Scientists have discovered a gigantic coral in the Pacific, near the Solomon Islands (in western Oceania), which is about 300 ...

The world's largest coral has been found in the Solomon Islands, a remote nation made up of hundreds of small islands in the ...

On an expedition to the Solomon Islands, divers affiliated with National Geographic have found the world’s largest single ...

Global assessment shows corals facing extinction due to climate change – cutting greenhouse gases can save them ...

In 2008, the IUCN assessed 892 warm-water coral species and determined approximately one-third were at risk of extinction.

Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals following a global assessment announced today at the ongoing ...

Almost half of warm-water reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction, conservationists have warned after a global assessment announced at the UN climate conference. The conservation ...