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

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

A paste made from chlorine and cocoa butter could be a future treatment for Atlantic corals affected by stony coral tissue ...

Built over tens of thousands of years, coral reefs are the most biodiverse of marine ecosystems ... pollution and the impacts ...

The organisation is still assessing the extinction risk for cold-water coral, which lives in deeper, darker ocean waters, ...

In 2008, the IUCN assessed 892 warm-water coral species and determined approximately one-third were at risk of extinction.

Severe Cold-Water Bleaching and Mortality of Deep-Water ... Environmental Protections Account for Around 10 Percent of Fish Stocks on Coral Reefs Oct. 7, 2024 — New research shows that ...

Coral reefs are built over tens of thousands of years, and so recovery from bleaching and extreme weather events is slow.

Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus ... reef during their first 36 hours in the water. After that window, sound had little effect. Coral reefs support more than a quarter of all marine animals ...

Coral reefs worldwide are in trouble ... During the larval stage of their life, corals drift or swim through the water looking for the right place to settle. To decide where they should attach ...