In late August and early September, the largest of collection of Florida's most endangered coral spawned in a Key Largo ...

As more frequent bouts of severe heat stress plague the world’s oceans, coral reefs don’t have enough time to recuperate, a ...

As the oceans warm, coral reefs face an uncertain future. Scientists are piecing together the current state of their global ...

Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already dead. But now researchers have rediscovered the coral reef and found it to be ...

It’s hard to feel optimistic for coral reefs, given the constant headlines about mass bleaching events and deadly disease. Now, a new study offers a glimmer of hope: Coral reefs in some places might ...

For years, the outlook for coral reefs has been increasingly bleak. Mass coral bleaching events caused by severe marine heatwaves have fueled repeated warnings that reefs are rapidly on an ...

New research has identified areas around the world where cooler currents and other favorable conditions are helping to protect coral from the worst effects of global warming. By Katharine Houreld ...

Scuba divers may be beating up coral reefs more than they think. Video analyses of divers show that more than 80 percent of damaging physical contact with the reef is unintended or simply unnoticed, ...

In a devastated section of the Coral Triangle in the Pacific Ocean, a conservation group is trying to build an artificial reef. Robin Philippo, the managing director of the Tropical Research and ...

Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate change pushes ocean temperatures higher, reefs are dying and bleaching events ...

In 2016, documentary filmmakers captured some of the first time-lapse footage of a coral bleaching event. Shot off the coast of Australia, along portions of the Great Barrier Reef, the team visited ...