When corals are stressed by pollution, high water temperatures or other environmental changes, they can lose the microscopic ...

Bleached coral pieces were able to recover when in contact with healthy ones.

In the lab, bleached corals recovered within just seven weeks of being put in brief contact with healthy corals. View on ...

Coral reefs are under threat right now due to abnormally warm ocean temperatures. Scientists are studying the healthiest reefs in the world in search of ways to help all reefs with climate change.

High sea temperatures driven by the climate crisis damage corals, bleaching them ghostly white and killing them. While restoration of dead reefs is possible, it's difficult and expensive, and restored ...

It is the first time scientists have observed bleached corals on the brink of death fully recover through brief contact with ...

There is a massive, ongoing battle for space happening right now on our Hawaiian coral reefs and the battlefield is changing quickly. Up on land there is an ongoing fight for space along our ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and officially named four species of algae new to science, challenging previous taxonomical assumptions within the Porolithon genus. The ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Local human impacts combine with global ocean warming to threaten coral reef persistence. New research finds that simultaneously reducing land- and sea-based human impacts supports coral reef ...

What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria ...