Did you know that coral reefs are vital to the survival of our ecosystem? And did you also know that reefs can be found as ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Though they've evolved over the years—but only a little—the twin Bahamian sanctuaries of Harbour Island and Eleuthera are ...

For 19 Columbia graduate students this past July, it was their classroom. Earlier this year, the M.S. in Sustainability ...

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of "saving" coral ...

Amidst the decline of reefs worldwide, UC Riverside scientists have launched a $1.1 million project to uncover how coral regains life-giving algae after suffering from heat stress.

Researchers at QUT uncovered how corals reattach to reefs through a three-phase process involving tissue transformation, anchoring, and skeleton formation. Differences among species reveal why some ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

A University of Hawai'i at Mānoa graduate's new research reveals that plastic pollution poses a significant, unseen threat to endangered coral reefs. The study found that chemicals leaching from ...