Scientists say coral reefs may be getting sick from more than ocean heat, with nutrient imbalance now linked to deadly ...

The arrival of a potentially powerful El Niño weather system this year could devastate coral reefs around the world already weakened by back-to-back rounds of bleaching, scientists warn.

Corals are under threat from warmer oceans. But those that survive could pass on their resilience to the next generation. Florida’s coral reefs finally caught a break this summer after a run of ...

Coral reefs may be more connected than scientists thought, with coral larvae drifting vast distances to spread genetic ...

Coral reefs are bleaching, dying and becoming sick. Here’s how it's happening and what scientists are doing about it.

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...

A collaborative research team has revealed the long-overlooked carbon storage potential of coral reef ecosystems and how reef ...

The team of scientists from James Cook University, University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University surveyed coral reefs in the West Australian Houtman Abrolhos group of islands (HAI), ...

More than 200 meters beneath the surface of the South Atlantic, where sunlight fades to nothing and water temperatures hover ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...