Hawaiʻi avoided the worst impacts of a recent marine heat wave in the North Pacific. But with marine heat waves occurring ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions of people, supports countless jobs in every corner of the globe, and absorbs ...

In a state-of-the-art facility in the Bahamas, conservationists are working to breed and preserve Caribbean corals under threat from bleaching and disease. The Bahamas is a coral reef hotspot and ...

Record-high sea temperatures are bleaching coral reefs worldwide and putting a new focus on attempts to restore these key marine ecosystems. Restoration begins with obtaining coral, sometimes by ...

A researcher in the Philippines is using an automated data tool to calculate the resilience of coral reefs in a biodiversity hot-spot in Asia's Coral Triangle. The Tawi-Tawi islands, in the far south ...

By 2100, Australian and global coral reef communities will be slow to recover, less complex, and dominated by fleshy algae, ...

Corals live in oceans around the world—in shallow, warm waters and deep, cool waters, clinging to seamounts or sitting on continental shelves. They also grow in the home aquariums of countless ...

New research has found previously undocumented variation in coral heat tolerance on the Great Barrier Reef, giving hope that corals' own genetic resources may hold the key for us to help in its ...