The world’s coral reefs are in dire shape, according to a new report. Hard corals, as opposed to soft corals, form the stoney bases on which reefs typically grow. In the past 40 years, they have ...

Heat wave hastened by climate change UNESCO-designated South Korean soft coral habitat at risk Species feared at risk from extreme weather due to El Nino Fishing, diving community mourn the decline of ...

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns. By Quinn Glabicki Coral reefs around the world, struggling as climate change ...

New research is helping biologists understand how an overlooked aspect of coral physiology may affect their fate under climate change. At first glance, corals present as little more than colorful ...

On a sweltering afternoon on Virginia Key Beach, field researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School's Coral Restoration Lab rushed from the ocean, carrying plastic crates filled with ...

A new model explains how the microscopic hairs carpeting corals coordinate their beating to shape fluid flow. Figure 1: Ciliary flows around corals visualized using tracer-particle path lines. The ...

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 ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on tiny algae cells living within their tissues that photosynthesize and ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply ...

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human actions, including ...