On June 1st, the world celebrated World Reef Awareness Day 2025 under the urgent theme: “Bringing Corals Back to Life.” This day highlights the indispensable role coral reefs play in sustaining marine ...

The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying corals with abundant food and enabling them to build extensive shallow-water ...

Just like the animals on Noah's Ark, the corals arrived in a pair. On Monday, divers with gloved hands gently nestled the self-bred corals from the World Coral Conservatory project among their cousins ...

Just after the full moon, Annika Lamb goes into work late at night. She puts on a headlamp with a red light and peers into large tanks of water in a marine science lab. It's a special week. Inside the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of the world's reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction ...

In Australia, researchers are pioneering new methods to fortify coral reefs in a warming world. These tiny algae cells have been cultivated for 10 years to withstand hot ocean temperatures. Scientists ...

Mission: Iconic Reefs is an effort to protect and restore seven key reef sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. 0:00:00.5 John Sheehan: The barrier coral reef spanning the Florida Keys, ...

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Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after ...

Most of the world’s reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction, spelling trouble for nearly a quarter of the marine life that ...