Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate change pushes ocean temperatures higher, reefs are dying and bleaching events ...

Austin Bowden-Kerby, a pioneer in coral reef conservation, spends many of his days gardening corals for reefs around Fiji and the Pacific. He grows corals in ocean nurseries. Once they’re healthy ...

A global study has found that around 73% of marine protected areas (MPAs) containing tropical coral reefs are contaminated by sewage, weakening their resilience to climate change. The research warns ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem in many reef ecosystems, and its effects are not well understood. Most previous research has focused exclusively on adult corals and their interactions with ...

Students investigate threats to coral reefs in Hawaiʻi, including climate change, sedimentation, and microplastic pollution. Using biomimicry, students design and prototype coral settlement structures ...

Marine protected areas are designed to conserve coral reefs and other ocean ecosystems by restricting human activity within their boundaries. But most don’t account for one of the most severe and ...