With another El Niño expected in 2026, only a short time after the last one, many reefs will not have had sufficient time to ...

Overfishing and global warming are depleting food from our oceans, but rebuilding coral reefs could help provide millions of ...

A major milestone was reached for the coral reefs in Florida. Through a big collaboration, a state-funded vision has become a ...

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

Coral reefs shape the daily rise and fall of nearby microbes, organizing them into rhythms that influence how reef ecosystems ...

The Florida Aquarium is part of an initiative to restore 25% of Florida's Coral Reef. The aquarium's Coral Conservation and ...

Marine biologists sampling coral reef waters multiple times a day have shown how they shape surrounding marine life.

Climate change is decimating the worlds’ reefs. Transplanting healthy coral onto dying reefs may save them. Some transplanted corals seem to thrive while others fail, but researchers weren’t sure why.

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think ...

A team has studied the mountainous star coral, Orbicella faveolata, to determine whether coral populations that have survived higher temperatures can pass their heat tolerance on to their offspring.

In context: Coral reefs are underwater ecosystems built by colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. They are rich in biodiversity and are sometimes referred to as the "rainforests ...