After Hurricane Iris decimated the coral reef at Laughing Bird Caye National Park in 2001, many wrote off the UNESCO World ...

A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

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

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 ...

Even as President Trump calls for slashing the funding of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, reefs are dying just a ...

Understanding how far Great Barrier Reef corals are from their parents could be key to identifying and protecting at-risk ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

These small, hexagon-shaped pieces of steel are known as 'reef stars.' They have been used by scientists to successfully ...