Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...

New research has revealed coral mortality rates of 92% after last year’s bleaching event at Lizard Island on Australia’s Great Barrier ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Researchers studying a coral disease that has devastated reefs across the Caribbean say they’ve come up with a promising ...

Florida’s Coral Reef suffered severe bleaching as ocean water temperatures exceeded 87°F in 2023. Some recovery took place from the cooling effect of La Niña the following year.

By tracing how those microscopic allies behave when heat strikes, scientists have found new clues to coral reef survival in a hotter world. A team from McGill University and the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Coral reef. Image via Unsplash. Coral bleaching represents the most visible and widespread symptom of reef decline. This phenomenon occurs when corals expel their symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) in ...

A healthy coral reef in American Samoa, left, experiencing coral bleaching due to a severe marine heatwave, center, and eventually dying, right. (The Ocean Agency and Ocean Image Bank., CC BY-NC) ...

Warming oceans cause coral to expel the algae that provides not just their characteristic color but also their food. Once bleached, they are exposed to disease and death by starvation. A global coral ...