“This effort to breed international corals together is the first of its kind,” said Maren Stickley, a student at UM.

Miami — Marine scientists in Miami are hoping to restore Florida's coral reef by taking coral from Honduras and crossbreeding it. "It's the first time ever in the world that an international cross of ...

Aquarists prepare for coral spawning at the Florida Coral Rescue Center at SeaWorld where healthy coral removed from Florida's reef amid an outbreak of stony coral disease have been housed. Four years ...

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a climate "tipping point" as the world warms.

In Australia, researchers are pioneering new methods to fortify coral reefs in a warming world. These tiny algae cells have been cultivated for 10 years to withstand hot ocean temperatures. Scientists ...

Scientists have recently discovered a reef off the Florida Keys have been completely bleached by a marine heat wave, leading to concerns about the ecosystem’s long-term stability. Scientists said ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has just been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean, scientists announced Wednesday. The mega ...

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% ...

MIAMI — For five years and counting, a continuous livestream on YouTube has shown daily life in a community few people get a chance to visit — a coral reef in Biscayne Bay. The Coral City Camera shows ...

Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a “dwarf”-like sea creature with spotted eyes swam around a reef. It darted into a nearby coral as a shadowy figure approached, but its hiding spot wasn’t quite ...