Scientists say they've discovered a "mega coral" three times bigger than the previous record holder - so huge they initially ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

In the tropical waters off the coast of Indonesia ... In time, it helps to create one of nature’s most spectacular ecosystems: a coral reef. Orange, blue, and sparkling-silver fish dart around ...

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, 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 ...