Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto ...

Scientists transplant crossbred corals off Miami's coast to help local reefs combat climate change effects, introducing ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World Heritage site as a coral graveyard. But a small group from the coastal ...

Florida’s devastated coral reefs can’t seem to catch a break. The marine heat wave of 2023, combined with an epidemic of ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

The State of Coral Reefs Today In “Weathered,” you’ll learn that an estimated 50% of the world’s corals have already been lost to mass bleaching and other issues.

While plants and some bacteria can make their own food, ... With too few tritons on the reef, crown-of-thorns starfish populations can explode, jeopardizing the living coral that makes up reefs.

If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.