It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

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

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major ...

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

As Hurricane Rafael passed the Florida Keys last week, its thermal benefit to coral reefs was being tracked in real time.

Severe Cold-Water Bleaching and Mortality of Deep-Water Reef Observed in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oct. 11, 2024 — New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral ...

Parrotfish are a group of 90-odd species found in coral reefs, seagrass beds, and rocky areas around the world, with the ...

Bleaching of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef, north-east Australia which is caused by global warming The Great Barrier Reef became a recognised area of ecological importance when it was ...

"Coral reefs break wave energy ... He often reflects on the large tropical coral colonies from which he quarried boatloads of core samples, knowing that some of them might now be dead.

Coral reefs, the ocean's most biodiverse ecosystems, face grave threats. Restoring them through nature-based solutions is ...

Both temperature and salinity affect calcification, restricting tropical coral reefs to waters between 23–29°C and in a salinity range of 32–40‰ (Figure 5). The reliance of hermatypic (e.g ...