By Rhett Ayers Butler [( In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built ...

A new study reveals that more than half of the world's coral reefs are bleached because of ocean warming, with 15% experiencing significant mortality.

Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, ...

Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Half the world’s coral reefs were hit hard by extreme ocean heat, and an even more severe bleaching crisis is happening right ...

"All of those scientists are genuinely doing everything they can." Scientists launch first-of-its-kind project along Great ...

As ocean temperatures rise due to climate change, corals and other sensitive organisms survive where temperatures are less extreme. But a new study from researchers at Florida Tech, published this ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Coral reefs, worth an estimated $9.8 trillion a year to humanity, are in far worse shape than previously realized. A massive ...

The United States government is rolling back conservation policies in a way that demonstrably risks accelerating already at-risk coral reefs around its island territory, Guam, in the Pacific Ocean.

The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world. Is it worth protecting?