An exceptional "dual feeding" strategy underlies a Mediterranean coral's resilience to rising sea temperatures, according to ...

For an upcoming series about trash, we want to know what questions and concerns you have about waste management, recycling, littering, landfills, etc, in the Houston area. Send an email to ...

Probiotics can be good for human health. Now, new research suggests they might also help protect coral reefs. A bacterial probiotic helped slow the advance of stony coral tissue loss disease—a ...

A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which is sure to disrupt the delicate balance of the ecosystem and threaten marine ...

A coral species believed to be extinct, Rhizopsammia wellingtoni, believed to be extinct for 24 years was recently ...

Technician Yesmarie De La Flor prepares a culture of probiotic bacteria in the Smithsonian Marine Station’s microbiology laboratory in Fort Pierce, Florida. These probiotics were used for further ...

The corals that are seeing the worst of it are a cylindrical-looking branching coral called Briareum abestinum, commonly ...

A new study into the 7-year stony coral disease outbreak decimating reefs from Florida to the Caribbean has found the disease can be lurking in sand on the ocean floor and rapidly spread lethal ...

A diver applies antibiotics to an elliptical star coral with stony coral tissue loss disease in the Tortugas. As stony coral disease carved a catastrophic path along Florida’s reef tract and parts of ...

Think of it as a seed bank to store the genes of Florida's most imperiled corals until safer times along the state's dying reefs. SeaWorld Orlando's new Coral Rescue Center, unveiled Friday, aims to ...

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

We are looking for commercial trappers and recreational stone crabbers to be on the lookout for a possible new invasive ...