Coral reefs do far more than provide food and beauty beneath the waves—they act as natural barriers, protecting coastlines ...

The ocean stores a huge amount of carbon, but excessive human emissions are changing its chemistry. It's becoming more acidic — hitting marine ecosystems and causing coral reefs to crumble. Two ...

Coral reefs have passed their survival limit, confirming Earth’s first tipping point and signaling more irreversible climate ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

The ocean is essentially our planet's climate control system, a massive engine that never stops working. For thousands of ...

The exact moment when Earth will reach its tipping points—moments at which human-induced climate change will trigger ...

The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are ...

In 2019, a coral bleaching event took place in the waters around French Polynesia, which was estimated to attack 50% to 60% of the coral reefs around the islands of Tahiti and Mo’orea in a matter of ...

South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the sea.

In the race to save at least some remnants of the world’s coral reefs, a new study shows only one thing really matters—capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Even at only that level of warming ...

Deep in the ocean off the coast of Tahiti, scientists made an incredible discovery in November: acres of giant, pristine, rose-shaped corals blossoming from the sea floor in what’s known as the ...