If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretches 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Caribbean coasts of ...

Underwater shades reduced paling in two brain coral species during the Florida Keys’ second-highest recorded summer heat ...

Coral reefs could be heading for another major climate shock. A potentially powerful El Niño developing later this year could push ocean temperatures higher, putting already weakened coral ecosystems ...

What impact do heatwaves have on coral reefs? This is what a recent study published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers from Australia investigated coral ...

The world’s coral reefs are losing both hard coral cover and, just as critically, the time they need to recover between ...

Underwater shades could help corals survive extreme heat, but researchers stress that they’re not a catch-all solution. View ...

What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), examines the correlation ...

Almost all of the surveyed coral at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef died after last year’s bleaching event, a new study found, revealing one of the highest coral mortality rates ever recorded ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching at high temperatures, according to a study published November 12 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Ariana ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching in high temperatures, according to a new study. Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake ...