This method will ensure corals of greater genetic diversity, which will confer more resilience in the face of threats. Read ...

Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new ...

In the wake of news that a New Zealand bottom trawler destroyed coral in the international waters of the South Pacific, ...

Ironically, this same complexity can impede coral recovery after disturbances. Researchers working at reefs in Moorea, French Polynesia found that the network of dead coral skeletons left in place ...

Colonies of hard corals in a portion of Davao Gulf are now dead, a situation attributed by a marine scientist to the ...

"From tonnes of dead coral to albatross, fur seals and dolphins dying in nets, the cost of bottom trawling is too high," says Greenpeace oceans campaigner Juan Parada."Just last week, we heard the ...

Whenever I see tiny remnants of coral fusing together — often in the space of a year — to create a living coating over what had looked like a huge dead coral skeleton, I am persuaded to keep ...

A bleached coral is not dead, but ocean temperatures need to cool off for any hope of recovery. At least 14% of the world’s remaining corals were estimated to have died in the previous two ...

Corals and the ecosystems they house face a multitude of threats. Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new research.

Linsley's team took core samples and identified "dead zones" in the coral's history, including the El Niño of 1997–98. "We figured out exactly when it had died during that event and could ...

Scientists return to One Tree Island on the Great Barrier Reef to assess the extent of last summer's coral bleaching event — and there's some hope amid the devastation.