Researchers with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Nova Southeastern University prepare live corals for transport at the NSU's Oceanographic Campus in Dania Beach, Fla., Sept. 18 ...

Earth belonged to the corals first. And over hundreds of millions of years, they proved themselves remarkably good at adapting to each new version of the planet. As other groups of organisms ...

The study, "Assisted sexual coral recruits show high thermal tolerance to the 2023 Caribbean mass bleaching event," is published in PLoS ONE. The summer of 2023 was deadly for many corals in the ...

Dania Beach, Fla. — Scientists have moved about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration. Nova Southeastern University and Texas A&M ...

Coral reefs cover less than 0.1% of our ocean, but they are home to 25% of its wildlife and provide livelihoods, food security and protection from tropical storms for an estimated 850 million people ...

Contrary to the reef’s colorful name, the corals below him make up a bleak ... “It’s been a long and rocky road to get here,” said Halpern, speaking over Zoom from Saudi Arabia.

There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history. Record-breaking sea surface temperatures have persisted globally since March 2023. In that time, more than three-quarters of the ...

Only a fifth of the coral coverage registered in 1995 still survives, experts say. But scientists working on the islands have discovered individual corals that can resist higher temperatures ...

Nine years ago I first noticed the corals out in front of Sunset Beach on Oahu starting to get sick and die. Some of the corals were 5-foot tall and rock hard reef building coral species.

Sandra Mendoza Quiroz knows how depressing news about coral reefs are – at least usually. Having worked to restore coral reefs in her native Mexico, she’s seen her efforts decimated over and ...