By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

Andrew Baker, who directs the Coral Reef Futures Lab at the university’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, spent 15 hours flying with the corals in a cargo plane.

The coral reefs of Carriacou, Grenada were badly damaged by Hurricane Beryl two months ago. Footage reveals the resilience of the reefs.

Pieces of broken coral are being rescued and rehabilitated in "nurseries" so they can be transplanted back onto the Great Barrier Reef, but marine scientists say it's no substitute for action on ...

Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal fluctuations in global weather patterns can explain. ... Coral reefs are so vulnerable, ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...

Creating a way for tourists and casual oceangoers to flag diseased coral is underway as white syndrome threatens reefs around ...

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.