Researchers in Hawaii have created a sort of underwater lab to see how new coral grows and thrives in different environments.

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Though they've evolved over the years—but only a little—the twin Bahamian sanctuaries of Harbour Island and Eleuthera are ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 26, 2025 shows reefs in China's Huangyan Island area in the South China Sea.

I grew up thinking of coral reefs as distant, almost mythical places—bright, resilient cities under the sea that would ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

Young corals can still build skeletons in acidic water, but the altered crystal structure makes the skeletons smaller and ...

Ancient Temperature Triggers Reveal How It All Began It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

Home to more than 16% of the world’s coral reefs, Indonesia is one of the planet’s greatest reservoirs of marine biodiversity. Comprising over 17,000 islands dotted across two oceans, the world’s ...

RODRIGUEZ, WPBF 25 NEWS. WELL, YESTERDAY WE TOLD YOU HOW A MAJORITY OF THE PLANET’S CORAL REEFS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY GLOBAL WATER TEMPERATURES. SO HOW ARE OUR CORAL REEFS DOING ALONG THE TREASURE ...