A two-year experiment found that coral reefs could endure in heated water better than expected—with one huge caveat.

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

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 ...

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction due to climate change, a new report said on ...

But when he found the reef, he saw, to his surprise, that it had started to regrow tissue. Linsley's team took core samples and identified "dead zones" in the coral's history, including the El ...

Coral reefs deserve evidence-based management not ... year — to create a living coating over what had looked like a huge dead coral skeleton, I am persuaded to keep trying.

CALI, Colombia — The United Nations, scientists and governments made an urgent call Wednesday for increased funding to protect coral reefs under threat of extinction. Research this year shows ...

But it turned out that vulcanized rubber is actually a poor substrate for coral growth, and the bundled tires, instead of helping to augment two adjacent natural reefs, ended up smothering and ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching ... 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 ...